Uphold Forgiveness as Prime Principle to Enrich your Life !!
THE REAL SOLUTION FOR PEACE
This New Year is not just a new year. It’s actually a new opportunity. And for those who have great vision, it’s a big responsibility to prepare themselves to achieve the success they want to see.
2020 is one full year of time given to you to prepare yourself not just for the next year, but for the entire life. I am not talking about the decisions that you are going to take on personal or physical aspects. All these vary from person to person based on their individual lives. What I am going to give is not a resolution but a real solution. In fact every resolution has to be a real solution which will raise you above the present level.
SOLUTION, NOT JUST RESOLUTION
Everybody is longing for happiness which means all of us know what is happiness and we have all enjoyed it at some point of life. But the problem in humans is not in longing for happiness but the lack of knowledge on how to maintain that happiness which they have enjoyed or which they are enjoying. Now what is unhappiness? Any feeling that doesn’t make you feel good or pleasant is unhappiness. So what is that one thing you can do which may not give you happiness, but for sure will not give you unhappiness? It’s forgiveness. Now I want everyone to take a list of people and events which made you upset or angry in the previous year. Then forgiveness is a possibility. The word forgiveness is not just a word; it’s an effort taken by both body and mind. It’s easy to say “I forgive you”, but is it practically possible? No, it’s easy to say but not easy to do for people who don’t have mental strength. The reason being for most of them, the pain and loss that they have gone through is irreversible. When the pain is real, it’s not easy to forgive. But still why am I talking about this as a resolution for the New Year? It is very simple. It’s not that you have to forgive but you need to forgive. If one thinks that money is the only wealth he possesses, he is the most foolish person in this entire world. Money is just a part of your wealth. The real wealth is time and health. Why do I insist on these both together? Health is not just the absence of diseases. It’s the right condition in which you can protect yourself with what you have and raise yourself from the present level to next level with what you possess. Anything that is going to affect your physical health is going to take time to recover from the health that you have lost. And the universal truth is that time is fixed for everyone. We may have different lifestyle, different cultures, different state of mind, but every human being has got only 24 hours a day and 60 minutes an hour.
OBSERVE YOUR THOUGHTS
So this new year take a resolution to not waste time on things which are going to just suck your energy and give only unhappiness. One such activity is taking conscious effort to recollect the past and people who made you upset and angry in the past and eliminate your bad experiences in the past. It’s better to understand that one thing which will not change in life and one of the most precious power blessed by god to human is time. Physical pain and suffering is manageable but thinking about someone who has given you pain in the past is not manageable. Everybody will have some secret which cannot be shared with anyone, thoughts that may be haunting you. Do not waste time on such past experiences. This is possible by taking a decision to forgive them. What do you mean by forgive them? Of course you can never forget the past incidents. You have no idea what is going to come to your mind as thoughts. But you have all the power to observe the thought and reject it before it affects you. One such practice is forgiveness.
Forgiveness is not a decision, it’s a conscious effort taken to observe the thought which is making you feel bad about the past and having the ability to reject the thought before it affects you. Is it possible? Yes, this is possible by understanding a simple metaphor.
The difference between a child and a grown up is having the ability to see beyond the present or understanding the consequences of an action. A child will enjoy an ice-cream but is not aware of the after- effects of having more ice-creams. He is not blessed with the ability to think beyond today like adults. Similarly a child enjoys a chocolate for the moment but doesn’t know the dangers of tooth decay. Your ability to see beyond the present is the first power of human being once you take conscious effort to raise yourself to the next level. And forgiveness is one such process which gives you self-confidence to see yourself as the most responsible person. You can never forget what has happened to you in the past but you have a choice; either to accept the thoughts and spoil the present happiness or think about the consequences and reject the thoughts. This awareness will naturally give you the power to forgive others.
YOU DESERVE PEACE
Forgiveness is not for others, it’s for you. Just because you forgive others, it doesn’t mean that the people who have disturbed you in the past have corrected their mistakes. That is not our concern. They might have changed or they might have not changed. It’s their choice. No matter what, we should change in our level of thinking and understanding to raise ourselves beyond the present level. So forgiveness is for you because you deserve peace not pain. Forgiveness will give you the choice to avoid the pain and to enjoy the peace.
Respect to time is not only respect to the self; it’s respect to the divine. Every moment is an opportunity given to you either to maximize your pain or maximize your peace. The choice is yours. Every moment you can decide to make use of the time to minimize the existing pain and problems and to maximize the peace and prosperity of your life.
FORGIVENESS – HARMONY WITH PEACE
Any emotion which is not allowing you to enjoy or not allowing you to express your own self can never be a positive emotion. Even though you may be a positive person, but if you keep thinking about the past, your emotions become negative.
And forgiveness will give you the power to remove the negative emotions and keep you in a state of harmony with the positive emotions. This will give you a feeling that can never be expressed in words to others. You alone will cherish this experience. Something magical will happen to your own self on a very deeper and conscious level. You will realise that as a human being you have already raised beyond your ability with your own effort. Having the ability to forgive is having the ability to receive in abundance, the divine power. One has to realise this and this will not only give you happiness but will give the power to spread that happiness in every possible way. You will ultimately become a source of happiness to others.
EMBRACE THE DIVINE POWER
A person who wants to achieve success in every aspect of life will never live out of a belief system. He will live out of principles. What makes you powerful to receive the God power is not the belief system, but the principles that you follow with discipline and commitment. If you fail to have a principle, your mind will automatically take your belief system as the principle which can be positive or negative. But when you take effort to live out of principles, it’s the power that you are giving to the mind to hold on only to positive beliefs and to eradicate all negative beliefs so that no more negative emotions can enter your consciousness. That is the power of the principles. A conscious decision made by a human being in spite of the external situations and unexpected events is called as principle. One such big principle of life is forgiveness. That is why I said that it’s not just a resolution; it’s a real solution which will help you raise your life to the next level more than what you imagine.
Once you decide to forgive, the divine power in you will flourish because the absolute nature of God is to give and forgive. The mundane nature of human being is to get and forget everything. Once you decide to live with forgiveness, you will automatically receive every possible source of energy and resource which will make you achieve everything you want in life.
Wishing you and your family a new year full of unstoppable success and happiness in every aspect of life.
Atmayogi Shri Aasaanji
Aham Brahmasmi !