Forgive

Today is the day of forgiving. Forgiving people who you think have done wrong to you or they haven’t been very kind to you. Please try to remember at how many people you are still angry. Just forgive. Then you have punished them. If you forgive them from your heart, then you have punished them. You have given back whatever they wanted or deserved. So, this is not a very difficult thing, to forgive, but people think it is very difficult to forgive, because they have certain great understandings about themselves.


Then they think, how can they forgive? I don’t know what things upset you, anything can upset you, after all, you are all realized souls. You have got your Second Birth and you are special people. So you should have a special quality and the special quality is to forgive. To forgive, not to go on remembering why you should be angry and why you should be upset, but just remember what things you have to forgive.


Just forgive. For what? It is a practical thing. Most practical. Supposing somebody slaps you. Alright, if someone slaps me, what should I do? Should I slap him back? No. Then should I ask him, why did you slap me? No. Then I should think he must be a stupid fool to do like that? That won’t help. On the contrary, if you can just forgive, forgive that person who has done something wrong… For you it is important that you must forgive, because it has no effect on you… But if you forgive, it will have more effect. Your goodness, your righteousness, but I think human beings find it difficult to forgive… normally, normally…
But you are all realized souls, you are not only human beings, that is why I am requesting you to remember that you have the power to forgive. To forgive everyone who hurts you, who tortures you, who troubles you. How far can we go? Just think of forgiving him and you will be amazed, he will change. He will change and you will also enjoy it yourself.


This is a difficult thing for people to understand, but just try. Just try what I’m saying. If somebody does any harm to you, just forgive that person and see the reaction, reaction in that person and in yourself. See what happens. But if you want into the burden of anger or stupidity or whatever it is, then you have unnecessarily loaded yourself with useless things.


We should not waste our energy on deciding what is wrong, what did he do and what you should do to him. That we should not. Just leave him alone and you just forgive. Say “I forgive”.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi