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Namah Vol. 30, Issue 3, 15th October 2022

term has many layers and it is important to and collectively. It moves through errors and
distinguish them in our actual dealings. It is of approximations, even blunders and disasters,
course good to forgive but this should be born through beautiful landscapes and sunshine
out of compassion and an understanding of and moonshine as well as through rough and
the natural limitations of our journey through rugged ascents and eddies and whirlpools. We
ignorance rather than from that superior sense are stuck and glued to one step in freeze time,
or even of religious sense that smacks of the ego. but the rapturous dancer swiftly moves on to
There is of course, also the forgiveness of the another and yet another tracing destinies with
cowardly who continue to act out of fear. his steps. We get stuck at one point and suffer
Besides, forgiveness of personal offence is one with guilt and depression looking back at a
thing and forgiving on behalf of the human lot phantom past, we burn in the fire of repentance,
is quite another. We may forgive a beast that observe penance, make confessions but these
has harmed us, or a criminal, as far as personal are not the methods to deal with what we yet
offence is concerned but there is the demand may call as mistakes. The only way to get rid
of justice and the need to rein in evil, that if left of the past is to move towards the future.
unchecked may bring much greater harm and
evil upon others. Compassion is a much better The only way to come out of the phantom
word since wisdom is implied in it. With an ghosts that pull us backwards is to move
equal compassion we may leave a person free towards the dreams of the future and the
or else stand in his way and resist him if such endless possibilities it brings. Guilt, confessions,
be the word of the wisdom within us. Hatred repentance, apologies, even when sincere, are
and cursing are no doubt harmful to both who not the best way to deal with mistakes. The
hate and the one who is hated but equally, only way is to learn and grow and discover
indiscriminate forgiveness may bring harm, the source of evil and error and fill that corner
not only to the one who forgives blindly and with Light and flood that abyss with Love.
the forgiven who may continue his evil ways, True repentance is to understand the source
but also to society at large. Imagine letting of error, a thing that requires sincere reflection
go of a serial killer out of forgiveness! Inner and discernment and to change what needs
charity does not mean absence of outer action. to be changed. Even if the change does not
Strength and Justice are as much godheads come immediately due to the long standing
as mercy and kindness. It is understood of grip on habitual ways of life, yet the will must
course that these actions must not be done press in that direction rather than justifying it
under an impulse of personal grudge and endlessly and engaging in self-reprimand and

hatred but only for the sake of a larger good. self-mortification.
Errors as steps on the evolving upward way

This is the journey of man or the ascent of man
from a state of ignorance and its attendant
error and suffering to a state of light and
truth and wisdom and perfection. It passes
through a number of stages, individually

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