Just as the meaning of many spiritual words are distorted, the meaning of "forgiveness" has also been distorted.
Forgiveness, gratitude, dispassion, surrender, self-respect, faith, Witness. They are all pointing to the one and same, the Zeroness.
Living in the dualistic world, as individuals, sometimes, unconsciously, we fall for the egoistic tendencies. We suffer and make others also to suffer. By grace, if we are able to see the disturbance, we also see that we have the power to give up the weakness and come back to our true Self. This power to come back to equilibrium has been indicated in different ways. It can be called as forgiveness or gratitude or surrender. It depends upon the state of mind of that individual at that particular moment.
If someone has been blaming himself for mistakes and others for the disturbance and suddenly got to see that they are all play of Maya, then, he may come back from chaos to neutral position, it is naturally forgiveness. Suppose, if he is unaware of his own patterns and suddenly exposed to them, he comes back home by gratitude. Words are different, but what they are pointing is same, where they are taking to is same. Some one may come back by faith.
