Aspirants Guide

Author(s): Atmanandji Maharaj
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Sadhna Kendra Koba

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ASPIRANT'S GUIDE
It is possible that a Sadhaka will come across certain obstacles in the present age in which most people are averse to or dislike religion. But a Sadhaka should know that such insults, obstacles and the like, coming from these people averse to religion, form a good opportunity for him to minimize his earlier Karmas.
From one view-point, it is proper for him to be thankful to these obstacles for the same rather than get angry. When various sorrows of mind and body or insults befall the person, it is proper for him to think thus, "My previous Karmas have come to bear fruit. These men or animals who inflict sorrows upon me are mere instruments. I must, therefore, keep up my forgiveness and must not get angry with anyone."
Also, when somebody accuses a person as being low, ignorant or pretentious, the person does not become that. Generally we become what we think and feel. After knowing this doctrine of truth, it is beneficial to all of us to keep up our nature of forgiveness, even if we have to make great efforts to do so.
CONCLUSIONS Enlightened meditation is quickly attained in the path of salvation by resorting to this virtue of forgiveness. Evidently we experience inner bliss. An all-round atmosphere of peace is created because internal mental sorrows as well as external conflicts, quarrels and abuses exist no longer. Thus, with the disappearance of anger and jealousy, atmosphere of friendship and unity is created everywhere in the society. As new bondage of Karma does not arise for the individual Sadhaka, and as the former Karmas deplete and vanish, the soul becomes increasingly purified and a great state of Sadhana emerges.
May this religion of forgiveness that leads to the bliss of our self and of others, reign ever victorious in our life.
GREATNESS AND GLORY OF FORGIVENESS 1. Forgiveness is the sublime opening to liberation of the soul. 2. Where there is compassion, there is religion; where there is greed, there is sin; where there is anger, there is death and where there is forgiveness, there is the truth of the spirit. 3. The Sadhaka should give up anger on realizing that it is
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