People in the world ask for forgiveness, but [true] ‘pratikraman’ does not happen by doing that. That is like when people casually say ‘sorry’ or ‘thank you’. There is no significance in that; the significance is of ‘alochana-pratikraman-pratyakhyan’ (acknowledgement of the mistake, repentance and asking for forgiveness for the mistake, remorse and avowal not to repeat the mistake, respectively).Dada Bhagwan
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Sometimes, people in this world ask for forgiveness. But true repentance is not about asking for forgiveness. It is about acknowledging the mistake that you made, forgiving yourself for it and then committing yourself to do better in the future.
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