nce when somebody hurt me very badly, I went to Dada in a very negative mood. He said, “You should be happy. You should rejoice that you have been hurt because when somebody hurts us, it negates our Karmic score. We have probably done something, and our Karma that is negative, needs to be wiped off. So when somebody does something wrong to us, we must accept it joyously. The Law of Karma is just wiping out our negative Karma.”
My Experiences With Dada
In my book, My Guru, My Mentor, My God on Earth, I have shared the wonderful and insightful interactions I have had with him. In those years of achievement, I would go to Dada with the biggest problems that I faced in management, leadership, and finance. I would also talk to him about problems in my family and personal life. Dada had an answer to every question. He was like an encyclopedia, an ocean of wisdom, and he could effortlessly give answers without a second thought.
Forgiveness
I once asked Dada about how many times one should forgive. Dada instantly replied that when someone had asked Jesus the same question, he had answered, “I say to you, not seven times, not seventy times, but seventy-seven times.” What Dada meant to tell me was that we must keep on forgiving and keep on forgiving! We should never stop forgiving because when we make a mistake, God forgives us several thousand times in our lifetime. In the same way, we should forgive others.
Forgiveness creates peace in our heart. When we don’t forgive, we carry a poison inside us and that ruins our joy and tranquility. I have learnt to forgive from Dada. Even in situations when someone has hurt me badly, I remember Dada and try to forgive.
Forgive And Forget
I should admit that it is impossible to forgive like Dada because he always forgives, never keeping anything in his heart. I would have done a hundred things wrong in front of him. I may have hurt him in so many ways, but he was so forthcoming in forgiving and forgetting whatever happened. The very next moment, he would not even remember that something like that happened. He would not let me feel that I had made a mistake or a blunder.
This way, Dada taught me two important lessons in life — first, to forgive and second, to forget.
Thy Will, Not My Will
Each of Dada’s quotes became a milestone in the highway of my life. I used his quotes to live my life as I absorbed them. He never got disturbed or intimidated by what life gave to him. He taught me things that were the blueprint for my spiritual evolution.
He accepted everything in life with the magical words,
“Thy will, not my will, O Lord be done!”— HAPPPY AiR, My Guru, My Mentor, My God on Earth
About HAPPPY AiR — Atman in Ravi
The Happpiness Ambassador, is a transformational author of over 110 books, a TEDx speaker, lyricist and singer of more than 1,500 life songs, a philanthropist for over three decades, and an Awakened Soul on a mission to Touch, Trigger and Transform lives, and to make this a Happpy world.
The Happpy AiR Movement led by him is a movement to inspire people to discover true, lasting Happpiness through the 3P Happpiness philosophy, and spread Happpiness to others.
The movement encourages people to go beyond temporary Pleasure and discover the deeper joy and fulfillment of Peace and Purpose. Pleasure, Peace and Purpose are the 3 Ps, the 3 keys to Eternal Happpiness.