Pardon: a Doorway to Redemption
“Pardon is the highest expression of Love that we, as part of this humanity, can experience. It is expressed in the tolerance towards mistakes of others and of our own. Pardon is the complete liberation from this intolerance, because what in fact hinders us from taking further steps in our evolutionary path, is our not being able to tolerate our own faults or other people's.” Pardon is thus the key for this humanity.“Pardon is also known as Redemption – the ability to rehabilitate someone, bringing him back to his original purity state which he had before having made the mistake.
To get started in the process of pardoning, our first step is to get connected and united with our Inner Master. Even though our mind will help us to analyse the different situations, it is only through this close contact with our Inner Master that we will be able to access the needed energies of love and compassion to properly carry out the work. Without Love there is no Pardon. Without contacting this energy of Love from within our hearts the process of pardon cannot take place, or it ends up as intellectual processes.
One of the things that keeps us from accepting that others can make mistakes and that anchors us and ties us to destructive criticism, negative thoughts and feelings, is our lack of understanding that we are all equal, that all of us, sometimes or many times, make mistakes because we are all learning. And without errors there is often no learning. Each of us may fail in a different way, with more or less intensity – depending on our own criterion. Something that for us can be very simple and to which we may hold no importance, could be, for someone else, unbearable. So when we accept that we are all equal, when we hold this is as true and we can live to that, can we then realise that we are just as susceptible to errors as anybody else.
When someone incurs in mistake toward us we can try to bear in mind that the person's situation might not have allowed him/her to have a different attitude or thought, that the person was not able to do it in a different way. We should try to understand that that person is limited in his/her way of feeling and doing, perhaps even bound to some process of suffering. If our attitude at that situation is filled with understanding and compassion, then calmness starts to establish in there, since all those energies are in the other person, and not in ourselves.
But when our reaction towards - what we might consider - someone's mistakes is of anger, negation, frustration, disgust and pain, when we shut our heart and feel offended, that is a sign that the energies expressed through the other person who, in our view, made a mistake, get activated inside ourselves.
Our aura is composed by many energies: good ones and other energies which we are still transforming. We can compare these energies to specific flammable materials such as fuel, and when a spark of a certain quality inflames in the other person, it automatically ignites any “fuel” of similar vibration that we might hold within ourselves. All those energies that apparently are in the other one get ignited in ourselves if that specific fuel is present within us, and this is what leads us to shut down our hearts, hindering us from stepping aside of this negative energetic process. This way, what actually produces the feeling of being “offended” is having these energies ignited within ourselves, and we are only watching that, in the other person, as our own mirrors.
In order to see ourselves as we truly are, we need these mirrors, that activate in ourselves the energies that we have hidden deep inside. That gives us the opportunity to face those things and to transform them. You see what a precious service is done by those who incur in error around us, making us feel all the revolutions of energies that are caused by the errors. They are showing us what is within us.
If the error, the energy that is not positive, is expressed only in the other person, we might even feel surprised or have a small reaction in the beginning, but quickly enough everything is back to calmness and that does not affect us. That means that those energies are not within ourselves.
When we are filled with energies of understanding, acceptance, compassion, all these come to the surface whenever needed and we are able to understand what the other person is going through.
When we have undergone important situations of pardoning, we really recognize how difficult such moments can be. But it is also glorious being able to see and to finally understand the work of those hidden energies.
So each person who commits a mistake or fails us in some way provides us with a precious opportunity to see more clearly each one of the hidden “fuels” within ourselves, to acknowledge how much of each is still there, to study their nature; if it ignites itself rapidly and takes a long time to get extinguished or if it holds a low combustion nature and it is easy to be blown up, easy to work with.
Bearing this in mind, next time when we feel very offended, let's think that something within ourselves is being activated, something that it is not very well, something which is part of some energies that should be transformed, elevated. Let's grab this opportunity which is opening up for us to face these things, analyse them and to be able to transform them. Let's have in mind that the other person is doing us a favour, so that we can recognise these things, this part of ourselves, that we would otherwise not be able to see. Let's be grateful for that."
(from a lecture by Shimani)
