Bible Discourse 35 The Forgiveness of Sins
Discourse 35
The Forgiveness of Sins
And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat
with him. And he went into the
Pharisee’s house, and sat down to meat.
And, behold, a womanin the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that
Jesus sat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, and
stood at his feet, behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears,
and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed
them with the ointment.
Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he
spake within himself, saying, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have known
whoand what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is sinner.”
And Jesus answering said unto him, “Simon I have
somewhat to say unto thee.” And he
saith, “Master, say on.”
“There was a certain creditor which had two debtors:
the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly
forgave them both. Tell me, therefore,
which of them will love him most.”
Simon answered and said, “I suppose that he, to whom he forgave
most.” And he said unto him, “Thou hast
rightly judged.”
And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon,
“Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for
my feet: but she had washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs
of her head. Thou gavest me no kiss: but
this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet. My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but
this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment.
Wherefore I say unto thee, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, the
same loveth little.”
And he said unto her, “Thy sins are forgiven.”
And they that sat meat with him began to say within
themselves, “Who is this that forgiveth sins also?”
And he said to the woman, “Thy faith hath saved thee;
go in peace.”
Luke 7:36--50
Jesus’ all-forgiveness of divine love to devotes was
displayed time and again. However sinner
she/he may be but the devotee’s heart rendering devotion make the Godly man
compassionate. A woman in Pharisee’s house washed Jesus’ feet with tears and wipe
his feet with her hair, kissed the feet, and anointed them with ointment.
Apichetsu duraachaaro
bhajate maamanyabhaak
Saadhureva samantavya
ssamyagvya vasitohinah Gita
9--30
He who without any
other avocation, mind anchored to me,
and worship me with incessant devotion, he is considered to be good even if he may be a consummate evil doer.
Becoming a slave to
senses is wrong doing. Doing Kriya yoga sadhana is right doing.
Kshipram bhavati
dharmaatmaa saswachchaanti nigachchati
Kaunteya pratijaaneehi
namebhaktah pranasyati Gita 9--31
Those sinners who are
taking shelter in Me are becoming men of righteousness. They are getting peace
and tranquility soon. He Arjun, take a oath “ My devotee never perishes’’.
Every action of an
individual is guided by his karma. People misunderstood the concept of Biblical
sins for centuries. An evil action against the welfare of the soul is sin. An
evil action against society is a crime.
The operation of Cosmic law in regard to human actions differs from the
operation law. A criminal is punished by
the human law if and when detected. The law of karma works unfailingly.
“Be not deceived; God is not
mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Galatians
6:7
The omnipotence of God
is expressed not as a vengeance but as a compassion, love and goodness. God is
the Creator, and Sustainer of this universe. He has ordained the law of cause
and effect, or karma, to govern life.
Man is the judge of his own actions.
Crime and punishment grow out of
one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of
the pleasure which concealed it. Emerson, in Compensation.
The Cosmic law makes no
conscious decisions in regard to fortune or misfortune. Gita says:
Naa date
kasyachitpaapam nachaiva sukritamvibhuh
Agnaanenaavritam
gnaanam tena muhyanti Jantavah Gita 5--15
Parabrahman does not
accept the sin or virtue of any one. Wisdom is covered with Ignorance like
Fire is covered with ambers. People are
deluded because of this.
Sadhak should overcome
Maya, the delusion, with the will power bestowed by Parabrahman.
When soul is identified
with body and sense pleasures, it forgets its divine nature. So the self sins
against the interest of his own true Self or Atman. When afflicted with pain of his own errors,
man feel that God has forgotten him and has no mercy. Every man is enshrouded
in ignorance because of “aham” or ego.
Man feels that God is remotely distant from human affairs.
Adam and Eve was
listening to God in the beginning. Man was given free will. Man transgressed the law of God. He himself built a wall of ignorance around
him.
God is
Omnipresent. So He wanted to be many.
But the many acknowledge Him not. They themselves segregated Him because of the
free will given to the man. If he does
not follow God, man has to suffer in to weep, toils in labour, and if he
follows laws of God he will enjoy as per God, rejoicing in realizing the bliss
of the soul. When the crust of sin is broken, the ever
pure soul enjoys as God. Realization of the soul’s divinity frees one from
effects of all past wrong actions.
The darkness in a
chamber is driven away by light. Similarly the darkness of ignorance or agnaan
or avidya can be driven away bu light of wisdom. Pure love for God brings forgiveness of sins.
Gita says:
Samoham sarvabhooteshu
name dweshyosti napriyah
Yebhajanti tu
maambhaktyaa mayiteteshu chaapyaham Gita
9--29
Iam the dweller of all
beings with equanimity and without any partiality. To Me none is hateful or dear.
But those who serve Me with
devotion are in Me, and I am in them.
Sadhak
has to enter into the Praasad (House) of Parabrahman. Then Parabrahman will
enter into the Prasad (Body house) of the devotee. Taking Prasaad is the token of this act.
God is
love. Jesus is the incarnation of God. Regardless of in intensity of sins, when
the woman turned her mind to Jesus with devotion, and sincere love, Jesus as
Christ forgave her as potential divine child made in the image of God. Only God and realized sons of God can
completely or partially forgive an individual’s sins against hir/her soul, provided
that person is devotedly sincere, not through mere supplication, but through
divine love.
All the wickedness in the world that might work or think
is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal in the sea.---William Langland, 14th century English
mystical poet.
And
like the man in the parable who was forgiven his greater debt relative to the
debtor forgiven little, her love was magnified by the awesome forgiveness she
received through her devotion and faith and blessing of the Christ in Jesus.
And he said unto her, “Thy sins are forgiven.”
And they that sat meat with him began to say within
themselves, “Who is this that forgiveth sins also?”
And he said to the woman, “Thy faith hath saved thee;
go in peace.” Luke 7:48—50
Forgiveness of sins means
erasing karmic patterns left in the brain by wrong actions. God and the highly advanced saints can
forgive others and liberate them from their transgressions.
Some credulous wrong doers
consider it sufficient to confess their sins to an ordinary cleric. They cannot
see the subtle operation of the law of karma.
It is unseemly to say to God “I am a sinner.” What God wants to hear is that man remembers
his true relationship with Him: “Lord, I am Thy child, I might have committed some
mistakes, Forgive me.”
Jesus said to the woman: “It is
your faith that had saved you. Now freed
from the automatic reaction and compulsion of evil habits and sense slavery,
you can be conscious of the revived peace of your soul—‘Go in peace.’’’ ”
In Mahabharata epic, the following story is narrated in regard to Dharma and Satya. This was narrated in a question and session
as given below.
..Dharma Raja, the eldest among pandavas, discovers all his brothers lay unconscious,
after drinking water from a lake inhabited by "Yaksha". Yaksha says " O...Dharma Raja, if you
answer all my questions correctly, then
I will make your brothers come to life again..!" and Dharma Raja agrees to
the proposition by Yaksha.
Yaksha: Who causes the sun to rise and set..?
Dharma Raja: Para-Bramha and DHARMA
Yaksha: ...And in whom is the sun established?
Dharma Raja: The TRUTH (all-pervading supreme consciousness)
Yaksha: Who is truly a wealthy Human?
Dharma Raja: One who has overcome the dualities of this mortal life
Yaksha: What is true knowledge?
Dharma Raja: The knowledge of the Unity of Divinity
Yaksha: Who is learned?
Dharma Raja: One who knows Dharma
..And there are 33 of these Yaksha Prashnas. Dharma Raja answers
all of them correctly. If you look
beyond these questions... and understand the IDEA of Maharshi Veda Vyasa, who
wrote Maha Bharatha. A human becomes unconscious by this MAYA (drinking water
from the lake inhabited by Yaksha), We have to realise the TRUTH and live
according to DHARMA, ....and live a Conscious LIFE to rise to our Full
Potential..!
As it appears to me... the current .ongoing.. "Global Human
Predicament.." ..like Yaska asking some real questions. If we understand
these eternal principles that govern LIFE at personal & universal
dimensions, live accordingly, then we can look forward to a better future. We
can no longer continue to live in ignorance.. and hope for the best..!
Satyam vada, dharmam cara. – Taittiriya Upanishad
Meaning: Live and express the Truth, practise Dharma
(Truth: All-pervading universal, supreme consciousness and non-duality.
Dharma: Duty, Responsibility and Righteousness in accordance with Truth)
All of life on this earth rests on DHARMA based on the TRUTH.
“And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in
adultery: and when they had set her in the midst, they say unto him, “Master,
this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such
should be stoned: but what sayest thou?”
This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger
wrote on the ground, as thou he heard
them not.
So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto
them, “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” And he again stooped down, and wrote on the
ground. And they which heard it, being
convicted by their own consciousness, went out one by one, beginning at the
eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in
the midst.
When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said
unto her, “Woman, where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee?”
She said, “No man, Lord.” And
Jesus said unto her, :Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more” John 8:3—11
In another incident, in the Gospel according to St. John, Jesus
dramatically illustrated the divine attitude toward erring children of
God.
Jesus said: No one is free from sin; should you not cast aspersions of
guilt and stones of condemnation first at yourselves?” Jesus said:
Only persons who do not make social mistakes themselves are justified in
critiquing others’ social errors. No one in the crowd was sinless. No body can condemn you. The Christ
Consciousness in me has saved you from your past adulterous actions.
Adultery is a social crime and also against divine happiness. Its nature
and weakness yields to sex transgressions.
And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye ought against any: that your
Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But if ye not
forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
Mark 11:25--26
Jesus said: A forgiving attitude
toward other attracts God’s forgiveness for oneself. Truth pertinent to the devotee is seeking
forgiveness from past wrong actions.
Take heed to yourselves: If thy
brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespasses against thee seven times
in a day, and seven times in a day turn again thee, saying, ‘I repent’; thou
shalt forgive him.” Luke 17:3—4
The hand of forgiveness to a
repentant brother is to mirror the example of God who forgives us all
countless, infinite, times. As such man also have to extend his forgiveness
repeatedly.
Then came Peter to him, and said, “Lord, how oft shall my brother sin
against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?” Jesus saith unto him, “I say not unto thee,
until seven times: but, until seventy times seven.
“Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which
would take account of his servants. And
when he begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand
talents. But forasmuch as he had not to
pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all
that he had, and payment to be made. The
servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, ‘Lord, have patience
with me, and I will pay thee all.’ Then
the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave
him the debt.
“But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants,
whichowed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the
throat, saying, ‘Pay me that thou owest.’
And his fellow servant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying,
‘Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.’ And he would not: but went and cast him into
prison, till he should pay the debt.
“So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were very sorry,
and came and told unto their lord all that was done. Then his lord, after that he called him, and
said unto him, ‘O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because
thou desiredst me: shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow
servant, even as I had pity on thee?’ And
his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all
that was due unto him.
“So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your
hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.” Mathew 18:21—35
The story above is an example of law of karma, cause and effect. If man does an evil karma or action and
repent seventy times seven, then is he be freed from law of karma. “Crying over
spilled milk” will not bring the milk back.
After repentance, one must forever relinquish the evil habit.
Scientific meditation Kriya yoga techniques are the surest way to burn
up all the traces of past evil actions.
Five methods are suggested for absolution of bad karmic effects. They
are:
1) Divine meditation—it is surest way of devotee advances
to higher states of self-realization and God consciousness and surest way of
burning prenatal and post natal karma.
2) Righteous behavior, practice of deep prayer, and
faith.
3) An advanced soul, or an emissary of God as was Jesus.
4) During meditation he realizes his real self. But the devotee has to pay for his
uncompensated past human karma. Due to
exceptional metaphysical kriya yoga technique (s), great master can do away
with the accumulated traces of many, manylives of binding karmic actions.
For five incarnations the yogi say to the law of
karma: “There in the vision, by the intensity of my concentration and divine
consciousness, I have materialized five lives all results of my karma; now I am
free.
As soon as the karmic effects of evil actions have been manifested and
experienced, whether in a self created conscious dream or vision in a few
minutes or hours, or in the ordinary events of life in a number of years, the
karmic law has been satisfied and the penitent man is “forgiven,” freed from
that particular karmic debt. This a
unique vision method.
5) Masters and saviors like Jesus can offer their bodies
to experience not only their karma but also the karma of others to help them
toward liberation. The crucifixion of Jesus was such an example. Gita says:
Teshaam satata yuktaanaam bhajataam preeti poorvakam
Dadaami buddhi yogam tam yena maamupa yaantite Gita
10-10
Those sadhaks are
completely anchored to Me, and worshipping me with renewed love and affection.
I am giving pure wisdom to such sadhaks.
Teshaa mevaanu
kampaartha mahaa magnaajam tamah
Naasayaamyaatma
bhaavastho gnaanadeepena bhaaswataa Gita 10-11
To show compassion to
those sadhaks, I Myself dwell in their Antahkarana, and mitigating their
obscurity with the light of Gnana, pure wisdom.
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