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Letting go

Letting go

by | May 4, 2025

“Every relationship leaves a mark. Some offered us affection; others challenged us with limits. Even those who hurt us, as Epictetus taught, offered us the opportunity to test our ability to respond with dignity. Buddha maintained that “hatred does not cease with hatred, but with love.” And Marcus Aurelius warned that nothing can harm us as much as our own reactions to what happens to us.
To remember with resentment is to fix one’s consciousness on a wound that becomes chronic. Resentment locks memory into a static narrative, while wisdom—as Hannah Arendt points out—consists in learning to “think without clinging to the past as a wound.”
Forgiveness is not denying the harm, but integrating it without becoming a prisoner to it. Those who learn to remember without hatred transform experience into awareness.
That is why I can say with serenity that I have no enemies in this world. Not because everyone has treated me fairly, but because I have chosen not to become a prisoner of my wounds. As Jesus taught, “the truth will set you free” (John 8:32), and that freedom begins when we understand that letting go is not weakness… but maturity of soul.”
Prabhuji
Forgiveness

Forgiveness

by | May 2, 2025

“Holding on to resentment is a subtle form of slavery. Those who live tied to past grievances and injustices, prisoners of yesterday, give up their present and weaken their future. Obviously, neither resentment nor bitterness repairs what happened or punishes those who hurt us. It only prolongs the damage, but now from within. Remembering does not mean reliving. Memory is for learning, not for reopening wounds. There is dignity in letting go of what cannot be changed.
Forgiving is not forgetting or justifying. It is deciding that what happened will not dominate what is to come. It is a form of self-control, not weakness.
Life does not stop because of what was done to you. It stops because of what you decide to continue carrying. Free yourself to keep walking and continue on your path.”
Prabhuji