Forgiveness

When we do something wrong God’s Forgiveness does its duty. That is to say, God forgives us. But our forgiveness does not play its role. We torment our very existence. This does not mean that God wants to escape from reality just by forgiving us. And it does not mean that we are just, therefore we are not forgiving ourselves. God feels that each time He forgives us, He gives us another opportunity to walk along Divinity’s road and reach our destined goal. But when we do not forgive ourselves, the ignorance in us which caused the mistake gets another opportunity to delay our progress. It prevents us from starting our journey fresh. When we make a mistake, if we torment ourselves in the name of justice, in this way we delay and delay; we do not start our journey over again.

God, out of His infinite Bounty, forgives us immediately precisely because He feels that if He gives us another opportunity we will be able to run, we will be able to fly and dive within. He does not forgive us out of negligence or carelessness or in order to avoid the issue. Far from it! He feels that each time we commit some Himalayan blunder, if He does not forgive us, then our progress comes to an end. Each forgiveness is an opportunity He grants us when we make a mistake. But in the name of justice, morality and so forth, we torture ourselves so that we cannot move ahead. God forgives us, but we just stick to our wrong action in the name of perfection in nature. Finally it is we who are the losers.

When we do something wrong, immediately we have to forgive ourselves as God forgives us. We must decide not to commit the mistake again, and at the same time we must embrace the new opportunity to do absolutely the right thing. Just because I have entered into a dark room if I go on saying and thinking, “I was in a dark room! I was in a dark room!” then I won’t be able to come out of the consciousness of that dark room and enter into the room that is illumined. Since God gives us the opportunity to leave the dark room and enter the room of illumination, we must accept that opportunity and utilise it properly.

From:Sri Chinmoy,AUM — Vol. 2, No. 9, 27 September 1975, Vishma Press, 1975
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