People ask God for forgiveness. But since God is everything and everyone, who is there for Him to forgive? Forgiveness of the created was already there in His act of creation. But still people ask God's forgiveness, and He forgives them. But they, instead of forgetting that for which they asked forgiveness, forget that God has forgiven them, and instead, remember the things they were forgiven - and so nourish the seed of wrongdoing, and it bears its fruit again.
But it is impossible for men to forget their wrong-doings and the wrongs done to them by others. And since they cannot forget, they find it hard to forgive. But forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)
Instead of men trying to forgive one another, they fight... The weapons used change, but the aggressive pattern of man remains the same.
Now men are planning to go the moon. And the first to get there will plant his nation's flag on it, and that nation will say, It is mine. But another nation will dispute the claim and they will fight here on this earth for possession of that moon. And whoever goes there, what will he find? Nothing but himself. And if people go on Venus they will still find nothing but themselves. Whether men soar to outer space of dive to the bottom of the deepest ocean they will find themselves as they are, unchanged, because they will not have forgotten themselves nor remembered to exercise the charity of forgiveness.
Meher Baba, The Everything and the Nothing, pgs. 109-110
If you have rock-like
faith in God and flame-like love for Him, nothing in this world will affect you. Misery
will not trouble you, flattery will not touch you, happiness will not humour you. Such
faith and love will cause you to rise above the imaginary phenomenon and make you
understand that God alone is real.
Trust God completely and He will solve all your difficulties. Faithfully leave everything to Him and He will see to everything. Love God sincerely and He will reveal Himself to you. This love needs no ceremonies and show. Your heart must love so that even your mind is not aware of it.
Let nothing shake your faith in Me, and all your bindings will be shaken off. Once you open your wings to fly, you must fly straight like the swan. Do not flit from tree to tree like a sparrow, or many things will distract you.
Meher Baba, Meher Baba Calling, pg.55
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