Releasing Accounts

Releasing Accounts

[The following essay on accounts was written by our friend, Dharmesh S. You might ask what does this essay have to do with not judging other people, this week’s theme. Sometimes our judgments of other people, whether justified or not, become lodged in us and cannot be freed without much effort and a deeper understanding of ourselves. These are accounts.]

In the books of accounts, the account of a client is said to be closed when the debit and credit columns are equally balanced, and the sum of the debit and credit is zero. In the spiritual realm too, the book of accounts must be balanced and cannot remain open indefinitely.

When we are unable to transform the play of injustice, betrayal, and lies, negativity starts to accumulate in us, and accounts are formed in our hearts against people responsible for the event. These accounts can be buried very deep in our hearts if our friends and families are involved. The wound does not heal and can fester for a year, a decade, or even a lifetime. There is a passive feeling of revenge circling in the heart. Although we might not become active in trying to hurt the people, we may derive a feeling of satisfaction when some unfortunate incident happens with them. We might just be a bystander, but we still tend to relish the negative outcome. The lower self is happy with other people’s suffering.

The truth is we are hurting ourselves. The poison we have stored for those people in our heart is extremely dangerous for the spiritual warrior. In the spiritual world, these accounts need to be eliminated and replaced with compassion, love, and forgiveness. Unless the spiritual warrior works on these accounts, the work remains incomplete. These accounts consume the higher hydrogens accumulated in the work. It is imperative to work with the situation, however small it may be.

It is very easy to write about releasing the accounts but extremely difficult to enact it. It is like swallowing burning coal. How does one fill the heart with love, compassion, and forgiveness for people responsible for hurting us?

One of the ways working with the event is bringing the dimension of higher forces and that our play is designed by Them. They wanted us to suffer and go through the heat of the furnace so that we may become small and humble, and act with humility. These virtues cannot be given; they have to be earned, little by little. By studying the lives of conscious beings like Socrates, Jesus, and Buddha, we see that they all had a play of injustice and betrayal. They accepted the suffering and did not resent it and transformed everything that was written in Their plays. Their lives were an epitome of forgiveness.

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Bodhisattva Manjushri, Pala (8th Century CE), National Museum of Delhi