Forgiveness

Forgiving people who have done wrong to you makes way for enriching your soul with calmness.Why should you carry a burden of pointless thinking about the incident.You only hurt yourself everyday and your near and dear ones around you.Just remember one thing.Your own virtuousness will carry you through all pains and miseries but you should have faith in the Supreme.No one can harm your soul or take it away from you.Your soul remains yours till such time you are alive in this world of illusions.They can only cause you an external grievance by way of speech & actions.Why should you be worried on what they are doing to you.Is it really that important to brood.You know what..? You are pained by the other people actions only when there is an attachment to the worldly possessions and feelings.Once you practice the art of de-attachment these issues will not bother you.Let me also reaffirm to you that what is in your destiny cannot be denied to you.If you are to receive something that GOD has willed to you it will be delivered to you when the time comes.If something is to be taken away from you it will be taken away.Nothing is ours since we did not bring it with us in this world.

Not only one should try and practice forgiving other people but also try and practice forgiving self.When you start forgiving yourself you also get to understand your own wrong doings and what is that you need to do to correct yourself.Forgiveness is a 360 degrees practice to get you on a 180 degrees straight line.But developing the art of forgiveness will take practice.Seemingly for the first time practitioners it is very hard.It is so not because of any defects with a person but due to the fact that over a period of time we have been tuned into a state of our own mind where the acceptability of the other person finds very little space.The reasons can be many but predominant amongst them is our materialistic attitude.Our own joys matter more to us than the grievances of others.We do not care to think twice on whether what we are doing is right or wrong.Everything at that point in time seems right to us because we stand to gain.We fail to foresee the after effects of what we are doing.And when we feel those after some period in time we try and ask for forgiveness from the person.We may be forgiven or not at that point in time is not in our hands.If we are fortunate enough we will get forgiveness which will clean out soul somewhat but the spot will remain deeply entrenched and many efforts would have to be made by us to clean it completely. If we have done someone some wrong and we know it consciously then no matter how hard we try this act of ours will come to haunt us definitely some day and in somepoint in time during our life. It is said that everything which we give comes back to us in some form or the other.This is the eternal law of the Universe.

Even before we start practicing the art of forgiveness, we should try and meditate and ask for forgiveness from the Supreme Soul.The moment we do that we will experience certain questions which will be asked from us by our own consciouness.The first & the last one would be " Why did you do an act which is so undivine?" We may have no answer to this and no matter how hard we try to reason, all answers will fall flat.This is the learning which GOD will impart at the first instance.When you open your eyes you will find that seeking forgiveness from Supreme is very hard because you are at fault.The Supreme anyways is going to forgive you not because you have asked for it but because it is his part within you which GOD wants to clean.You are just a means to carry a part of his consciousness within you as your soul.Your sinful thinking which tarnishes the soul needs to be cleaned by HIM since GOD cannot accept anything which is impure after your term on this earth expires.This would then make you think as to what is your entity.Frankly speaking NOTHING.You are no one since you do not have the power to create nature and its people.

So ask yourself a hundred times when you think of uttering even one word which is undivine and for which you will have to ask for forgiveness.Why do it when you can avoid it.Just mellow down yourself and think of only divine eternity as the true purpose of your life on this earth.Since what you own are only illusions and nothing more, then what is the need to cause grief and sorrow to others.Seeking forgiveness is your right only if you have committed some undivine act out of ignorance and not otherwise.We must try and act in a way where we should not ask for forgiveness from others but forgive others for what they do to us through ignorance of their existence on this beautiful planet.

Sanjiv Gupta
Creator Merrigold