A sadhu meditated on a big stone for 50 years. One day, God appeared and asked the sadhu to seek forgiveness for his sins. The sadhu pleaded that he was free of all sins. The Lord replied that the stone bore the sadhu’s weight for half a century, and to square up, he must bear the stone’s weight for a similar duration. Unless the sadhu asked for forgiveness and the stone granted it, the Lord said, He would have to turn the sadhu into a stone and vice versa, for karmic settlement.
If the sadhu refused to plead forgiveness or the stone refused to grant it, Nature would intervene: the sadhu must pass through a devolutionary process till he degraded into a stone. The stone too needed to evolve on an ascending scale into a sadhu. Nature would then match time and space to reverse their karmic accounts.
However, if one of them died, revenge or hurt may persist, making forgiveness redundant. Or if one killed the other, clemency was ruled out. The wages of cruelty would then be settled with a matching force.
Non-forgiveness means living through the life cycle of struggle of evolution and devolution. When men question unexplained incidents, they forget that Nature settles all actions, including sanskaras, or impressions, in time and space. Atonement through forgiveness is the compassionate discretion from the Lord.
Also, the Lord may facilitate forgiveness by repentance through His Sons or Saints. The Bible says, “[Jesus] is the atoning sacrifice for our sins.” Finally, a third party’s intermediation becomes imperative for unsettled matters.
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