Forgiveness

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!

Today morning as i was chanting the Name of Nityananda i was asking Lord Nityananda to give me the strength to forgive. My ego can so easily become aggrieved and can so easily find reasons to find fault with or accuse others. But that is not the way of a devotee. A devotee is compassionate. A devotee is on the way of opening his heart and that means also the cultivation of the quality of forgiveness. There are many instances in the Holy Scriptures and statements of the saintly devotees emphasizing the importance of mercy, compassion, forgiveness. i remembered Lord Jesus saying, forgive and You will be forgiven. i myself are still not perfect so how can i expect others to be perfect?! And after all, forgiveness is something so beautiful, it is a divine quality eternally attached to those who are perfect. Lord Nityananda, Who is the Perfect, Supreme Lord Himself is the most appropriate example for it. He forgave although the others made Him bleed. Oh Lord Nitaai, oh most merciful Vaishnavas, please endow me with a drop of the infinite ocean of the mercy and compassion You possess, so that i can forgive...

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