The power of forgiveness

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Posted: 14 years ago
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I have been through a lot of issues that had left me with bitterness, anger and hatred.
I have also gone through a lot of spiritual counseling which led me to different forgiveness techniques and different ways of letting go... and forgiveness as a higher order of being rather than punishment.
So, in the unanimous call to punish Jagya -- I wonder where (if anywhere) is the place to forgive Jagya? 😆😆
One of the spiritual counseling techniques is called "Radical forgiveness"... (can be found by googling)... and radical forgiveness comes through re-framing the issue that the person who harmed you has actually done you good... that they and you had some sort of "contract" with each other spiritually to interact with each other for the highest good.
In such a case, through a radical forgiveness framework, for example, anandi can see the good in Jagya and thank him for his abandonment releasing her (in a spiritual sense) from being a beendhni and freeing her to be who she is really meant to be - a social worker. His abandonment also has given her a sharp focus to be a cause.
In this case, there really is nothing to punish Jagya because he really was being a friend to her.
Any thoughts or comments? Just exploring.

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Posted: 14 years ago
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I want to add that "ordinary forgiveness" means "you did something bad to me, but I am going to overlook it"
it is very hard to forgive when one is having the judgement that the thing that happened was a bad thing.
"Radical forgivness" means looking for the good in how that situation has served you well, and releasing it. It means seeing the incident as a good thing.
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Posted: 14 years ago
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very true tinoo. if we see A & J in this sense then J has done a lot good to A. infact she is independent of becoming and doing what she want to be. finding good in bad things too. that happens only in this route i think.

i felt this (not in the sense of forgiveness) before when both of them separated, now she can think of herself instead. waiting to see A a strong person in life.

good post indeed.👏

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