{"id":488,"date":"2007-09-22T22:51:37","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T11:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/09\/22\/the-meaning-of-forgiveness\/"},"modified":"2007-09-22T22:51:37","modified_gmt":"2007-09-22T11:51:37","slug":"the-meaning-of-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/09\/22\/the-meaning-of-forgiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of Forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jesus<\/a>Forgiving others, while often difficult, is one of the most important things we need to do for our spiritual growth. Shri Mataji, the founder of Sahaja Yoga, has said that if Jesus Christ had not come on the earth, we would not have been able to have the spontaneous attainment of Self-realisation which has been made possible through the methods of\u00a0Sahaja Yoga. The reason is that the quality of the Agnya Chakra is forgiveness. By forgiving those who\u00a0 crucified Him, Jesus opened\u00a0the Agnya Chakra. If the Agnya Chakra had not been opened, it would not have been possible for Shri Mataji to open the Sahasrara, the last Chakra\u00a0in the human\u00a0evolutionary process.<\/p>\n

If we do not forgive, the Agnya Chakra remains closed, and we cannot experience the full blessings of Self-realisation. If the Agnya is not fully clear, we\u00a0are dominated by our thoughts which come either from the past or the future. If the thoughts are coming from the past, we are governed by\u00a0the Superego or conditionings. If our thoughts are of the future, we are governed by\u00a0the Ego, the notion that we are responsible for creating what is going to happen in our lives. It is only\u00a0when we are released from both\u00a0the Ego and the Superego\u00a0 that we are able to be in the present. In the present, there are no thoughts, and we can then enter into a state of thoughtless awareness or true meditation.<\/p>\n

One way of opening the Agnya\u00a0Chakra is to recite the Lord’s Prayer which was given to us by Jesus Christ. The key phrases are:<\/p>\n

“Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us”.<\/p>\n

Thus, the Lord’s Prayer is actually a mantra specially designed to open the Agnya Chakra.<\/p>\n

Jesus also said, “I am the Way, the Truth and the Light.” Another way of opening the Agnya Chakra is to use light. Thus, looking at a candle flame or a fire is\u00a0an effective\u00a0way of clearing the mind of thoughts and opening this chakra.<\/p>\n

This, then,\u00a0is the true meaning of forgiveness: letting go of thoughts of the past or of the future, in order to prepare the Agnya Chakra for the last great breakthough in our evolution. When we do this, we are no longer burdened by guilt, regret or anger, but\u00a0attain a peaceful state of mind where we can\u00a0experience the\u00a0joy of being in the present. Of great significance, however, is that this state\u00a0also paves the way\u00a0for\u00a0the attainment of\u00a0Self-realisation.<\/p>\n

(Photograph courtesy of commons.wikimedia.org)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Forgiving others, while often difficult, is one of the most important things we need to do for our spiritual growth. Shri Mataji, the founder of Sahaja Yoga, has said that if Jesus Christ had not come on the earth, we would not have been able to have the spontaneous attainment of Self-realisation which has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,8,10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-29","category-great-spiritual-leaders","category-meditation","category-shri-mataji"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-7S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}