What is forgiveness? What is compassion?

Forgiveness is — to not have the need to forgive.

As long as there is a need to forgive, it means you are still sticking to the small things in the brain. Hurts, distortions, you are still talking about those little things.

You feel offended. Because you feel offended, so the question of forgiving the other person arises- “Should I forgive? Should I not forgive?”

Real forgiveness is, when you have gone beyond the little things of the brain and have totally forgotten the hurt.

That which you are calling as ‘permanent distortion in the brain’, is nothing but the attachment of ‘I’ sense to all the little taints. The distortion does not just stay on. The distortion stays on, because you get attached to it.

It’s like something is staining your cloth or your skin. Do you know how the stain happens? Something in the cloth reacts with the spoiling agent, the dirt. Actually, a friendship happens. If I put some grease on this Kurta, the grease is different from the Kurta, they are two different entities. How does it happen that the grease meets the Kurta, and then the grease does not come-off? How did the two become one?

The two become one because a bond develops. It’s a chemical bond, actually chemistry takes place. They become brother and sister, or…