Speech at United Nations The following is the speech H.H. Bhakti Charu Swami gave at the United Nations Headquarters , New York City, NY, USA for the Panel Discussion on “Forgiveness: a pathway to human transformation”.For voice and details see www.bhakticharuswami.com What I will present here today is the Vedic perspective of forgiveness and the appropriate means to cultivate and demonstrate that noble quality. Vedas is the wisdom that descended from the spiritual reality, since time immemorial – since the time of creation. Just as, along with a machine comes the operation manual describing what is the purpose of the machine and how to operate it, the Vedas describe the purpose of this material nature, how it functions and how we should achieve our desired goal here. Vedas generally do not deal with the immediate effect, rather with the cause behind the effect. For example, the Vedic branch of medicine, “Ayurveda,” does not deal with the symptoms of the disease only, rather wit