Clearing the Fog in Relationships through Forgiveness
Global Forgiveness Day, observed each year on July 7, serves as a powerful reminder to heal the unseen fractures in
Global Forgiveness Day, observed each year on July 7, serves as a powerful reminder to heal the unseen fractures in
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Pune, India – On World Forgiveness Day, July 7, seekers from across India and beyond gathered online for a live session with spiritual teacher Sirshree, founder of Tejgyan Foundation. Streamed on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram, the session drew participants from numerous cities, including Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Surat, Vadodara, Gurgaon, and overseas, united by one theme: We cannot afford to forget forgiveness.
Described by the hosts as not merely a session but a one day retreat, the discourse overturned the most common assumption about forgiveness, that it is something we do for others.
“When you forgive someone, you are giving yourself a beautiful gift. You are gifting yourself freedom.”
Sirshree began with a humorous yet profound story. A man visits a doctor with a strange complaint. Every night in his dreams, rats play a football match, a black team versus a white team, preventing him from sleeping. The doctor prescribes two medicines, one to make the football disappear and another to make the rats vanish.
When the doctor asks him to take the medicine that very night, the man refuses.
“Tonight is the final! If I take the pill, my team will lose. How will they ever win without me?”
Through this story, Sirshree explained that people often become emotionally attached to their problems.
“Human beings fall in love with their problems. Problems give us entertainment, attention, and a reason to live. The medicine is offered today itself, but some people must watch the final.”
The black rats symbolize the people we resent, while the white rats represent those we support. As long as we remain invested in this inner conflict, we refuse the cure. The greatest misunderstanding, Sirshree explained, is believing that suffering is caused by others.
“If the cause is outside, then liberation is impossible. The cause is within, and so is the remedy.”
Sirshree introduced the concept of lakeerein, invisible karmic lines created whenever we hurt, curse, resent, or negatively judge another person.
He explained the word LaKeeR as Lagaan Ki Rassi, the rope of unpaid karmic debt. Every negative thought, emotion, word, or action creates a subtle bond that remains until it is dissolved.
According to Sirshree, these unresolved impressions remain stored within the subconscious mind like old cassette recordings.
“For years, a cassette stays silent. Then one day, triggered by a mood, a memory, or even the weather, it suddenly plays, and out of nowhere comes anxiety or depression. That is an old karmic line surfacing, seeking to be erased.”
Practising forgiveness through Kshama Sadhana, he said, does not merely pause these impressions but completely deletes them.
“They are not just paused. They are deleted, not even left in the recycle bin.”
One of the session’s most memorable analogies compared life to a carrom board.
The black and white coins represent different people and situations, while the red queen symbolizes aajivika, or livelihood. Everyone strives to obtain it, believing success and material achievements are life’s ultimate purpose.
But Sirshree revealed a deeper meaning hidden within the game.
“This carrom board represents life on Earth. You sprinkle powder to make the game smooth, all your arrangements and planning. But the real purpose is hidden in plain sight.”
Erasing the lines drawn in the middle of the board is the real goal.
“Winning is not the goal. Winning is a bonus. Erasing the lines is the goal. The other player doesn’t know this, but you do.”
Sirshree emphasized that forgiveness does not require meeting another person or informing them.
Both asking for forgiveness and granting it happen silently within one’s own awareness.
“Never announce, ‘I have forgiven you.’ That is the ego’s work, and it is the ego that weaves these karmic lines in the first place.”
He also clarified that forgiveness should never be confused with carelessness.
“Forgive the mosquitoes, but use the mosquito net.”
One can forgive while still maintaining healthy boundaries and taking practical precautions.
The session concluded with a live Kshama Sadhana meditation built around seven simple prayer lines that, according to Sirshree, work in any language because the feeling behind them carries the true power.
Participants silently remembered those they had hurt and prayed inwardly:
“I seek forgiveness. Please forgive me. Free me from bondage. As I have been freed, may all be freed.”
The meditation ended with affirmations of unconditional love.
“I believe in the law of love. I am in love with love itself. I love all. I love myself unconditionally. Thank you for the sun. Thank you for the grace.”
“When you become love, you become the healer.”
Before concluding, Sirshree invited everyone to consciously choose love over hatred and compassion over anger.
“Let memories not guide you. Let your divine plan guide you.”
Hosted by Tejgyan Foundation, whose Magic of Awakening retreats have touched more than one lakh lives, the World Forgiveness Day session remains available on the Foundation’s YouTube channel for anyone wishing to revisit the teachings and continue the practice of dissolving karmic bondage through forgiveness.
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Watch Sirshree’s complete World Forgiveness Day discourse in Hindi and experience the full Kshama Sadhana meditation along with the profound insights shared during the live session.