Keeping our Promise to God
Excerpts from Sri Chinmoy's Books - God Is
How can we forgive injustice?
When we came
into the world, we made a sincere, soulful and solemn promise to God
that we would realise God, manifest God and fulfil God here on earth.
At that time we were in the soul's world; our real existence was the
soul. We said, "I am descending into the world only to please You, to
fulfil You, to manifest You unconditionally." The people who you feel
are very unjust have done something undivine, true. But look at your
own promise. You expect perfection from other people; you feel that
they have to do everything in a perfect way.
Perfection comes only when we fulfil our promise. Our first and foremost promise to God was to please Him and fulfil Him on earth. We have not fulfilled our promise; yet we expect others to fulfil their promise. We have done millions of things wrong and naturally, God is forgiving us. Otherwise, we would not be able to exist on earth. If He is ready to forgive us in spite of our countless defects and mistakes, how is it that we cannot forgive someone else? ~ Sri Chinmoy