Q. 157: Dear Gurudev, how do I forgive? I find it difficult to let go of my grudges.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

There are 6.5 billion people on this planet. Don’t forgive the 6.5 billion but just forgive this one person.
You know, inside every culprit there is a victim crying for help. You must know they are victim of situation and circumstances. They might have done something wrong, but this is because they don’t have that knowledge.

They were never exposed to higher knowledge, so they make mistake. See what is happening today, all the church scandals are coming out. It is so painful, so pity of a condition because just reading books and understanding doesn’t help violent tendencies or any kind of tendencies to be fixed. These can only be fixed through meditation, through breathing exercise and yoga. 

Only through that the violent aggressive energy doesn’t surround. -Prisoners say, “Art of Living (AOL) is responsible for our being in the prison, because if you had given us this knowledge earlier, we wouldn’t have landed in the prison. You are responsible and you should have given the knowledge much earlier. So, our life would have been much different”, and I agree with them.

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