feel guilty whenever I make a mistake. How do I correct my mistake?

Q: I feel guilty whenever I make a mistake. How do I correct my mistake?

Guruji: Wanting to correct a mistake brings doership and doership is the foundation for mistakes. Often, those who are trying to correct mistakes get caught up in more mistakes. Those who recognize their mistakes are freed from them.

Often, when one acknowledges a mistake, one tries to justify it, without taking responsibility for it. And sometimes one accepts that one made a mistake and starts justifying it or feeling guilty about it. Mistakes get dropped when one is troubled by ones conscience (viveka) or grief.

There may be flaws in any action, any situation or any person. Treat a flaw as you would treat a flower. Just as a flower has to wither away after sometime, so does a flaw.

===========================

Just like water takes the form of a vessel in which it is poured, in the same way, our consciousness should also have the same quality.

===========================

Don’t just sit idly and keep worrying over things all the time, or think that one fine day God will suddenly send many blessings your way and everything will be alright. Do not waste even a single day this way.

===========================

Q: When I listen to knowledge, I feel the change in my mind. But the change is not firmly established. What should I do?

Guruji: You will have to listen to knowledge again and again. Then it will be firmly established in you. But it will take some time.
When you dye a piece of cloth, what do you do? You dip the cloth in the dye and dry it. And you repeat the process again and again.
When you paint your house, you paint it with three or four coats and dry it every time. Isn't it? Similarly, when you keep listening to knowledge repeatedly, the mind becomes pure and strong.

===========================

Q: I wish I was also a child.

Guruji: If you become empty, you will become a child.

===========================

Guru is knowledge, Guru is love. Guru is light, There is no difference between Guru, God and the Soul.

Om Namah Shivay