Forget The Harm One Has Done To You And
Forget The Good You Have Done To Others
At first sight, this injunction appears to be in direct contradiction to
everything we observe in operation around us. Usually, when someone attack us,
the very first impulse is to retaliate by hitting back. At the same time,
whenever we have helped someone, we tend to feel smug and superior. Now, we
are being told that neither of these reactions is morally correct and must be
reversed if we expect to reach our final goal of enlightenment, or union with
our Real-self.
The teachings of Jesus contain a similar injunction, "Turn the other cheek",
which many people find extremely difficult to accept. But Baba tells us that
we are all one, all God, and so everything we do to someone else, we are
actually doing to ourselves. This statement follows the law of karma, by which
everything we do to others, eventually returns to us to teach us to treat
everyone as a reflection of ourselves and refrain from accumulating any further
karma to work out in the future.
We need to forgive everyone who has ever, in our own limited opinion, harmed us
in any way. This will free us to direct love to them instead of blame, and we
may eventually thank them for teaching us lessons we needed to learn, even if
they taught us how not to act or speak!
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