Art of Repenting

Art of Repenting

Spirituality starts touching every stage and moment of your life once you go deeper.

You often encounter a situation in which you feel sorry for what you just said.

Most people in such situations will feel sorry for the time being and return to their lives again.

This is a half-hearted approach.

Feeling sorry is one thing, but repenting for what you just said is another.

In Hindi, there are two beautiful words –

1. Prayaschitta. ( Resetting the Chitta – mind ).

2. Paschyataap. ( Taking the heat of repenting ).

No English equivalents exist, but “sorry” and “repentance” can come close.

So, Prayaschitta is where the mind feels sorry for whatever it just said.

But it defends itself, saying, “ Normally, I am a nice guy, but somehow, such words came out by me at the wrong time, but I am not bad. I won’t repeat such a mistake.”

This is just like putting a bandaid on your Ego to make it look good.

But in reality, nothing has changed – Ego has stayed the same.

You are still where you were before such a statement was made, and the same mistake will happen again.

This is how the mind works – half-heartedly because the mind means divisions; it can never do anything fully.

2. Paschyataap goes a lot deeper than that.

That’s where one realizes that whatever was said was produced by a mind with a deeper problem that needs fixing.

So, such a person will go into deep contemplation to explore where the problem is – at the Bhav level ( not just at the thought level ).

This also means he has to spend more time on his own mistakes and ponder over them, and it’s okay.

This way, total transcendental consciousness gets applied 100% to the suffering mind.

When consciousness comes into the picture, the suffering becomes 100%, and it’s OK to suffer 100%.

Such a profoundly contemplative approach changes the person’s mind for the better and forever.

Art living is living your life 100%.

If you are having a good time, enjoy it 100%; if you are suffering, then suffer 100%.

Why?

Because your final destination is – the ONE – the totality, 100%.

Raw ore of Gold does not like burning in the heat ( taap), but once it does, it comes out and becomes pure Gold.

Your actions will be pure only if your thoughts are pure, and your thoughts will be pure only if your Bhav is pure.

Foolish are the ones who go against this divine axis of Bhav-Vichar-Kriya.

They try to do pure actions with impure thoughts and even impure Bhav.

Such actions are meaningless.

Bhav will get purified only with the help of the ultimate source of purity – consciousness.