Shouldn’t we lament for our mistakes?
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is lamenting bad a word that one should lament of the misdoings the mistake that we have done that is repenting and then lamenting they are two different things repentance means again like I told about learning from the past and lamenting about the past so in repentance the focus is that yes I made a mistake and I should not do it I feel bad that I did it and I am not going to do it again so that actually few terms associated with it lamenting basically it just means feeling sorry for oneself why did this happen, why did I do that why why why lamenting is characterized primarily by living in the past living in the past whereas repenting is characterized not by recognizing the mistake of the past but after that focusing on correcting oneself in the present so we should definitely repent what you have done but repentance essentially means that we are not nonchalant yeah exactly what is the big deal things happen everywhere doesn’t matter but if I have got a wound it does matter but if I am constantly thinking about the wound thinking about the wound I have to do something to heal the wound and I have to take care that I don’t repeat the wound I won’t myself similarly if we have done something wrong then we should be cautious so that we don’t repeat it and our what makes us feel bad that’s the words of conscience there is a real metaphor conscience is the dog that barks when the thief of sin comes to the door of our consciousness so it’s like a dog barks when a thief comes at our door so then we consider our consciousness like a room so when a thief of sin comes at the door of our consciousness conscience is the dog that barks so if some sinful temptation is coming or if we are doing something wrong then no barking happening that means there is a serious problem how do we come to know so if we don’t feel bad at all after doing something wrong that means we have done the bad thing so many times and our consciousness is practically dead now that is an alarming thing so to not feel any concern, not feel any alarm not feel anything to nonchalantly do wrong things that means our consciousness has been dead and that is a serious situation but it is not that we just the dog is barking the point of the dog barking is to not allow the thief to come in so like that if we feel bad, what is the result after we feel bad about it we stop doing the bad thing, we counter it we do something to strengthen our consciousness whereas if we say somebody is repenting somebody is lamenting, a dog is barking and we also say why is the dog barking why is the dog barking, what to do the dog is barking, the thief has come let the thief steal all the thieves are stolen so if we don’t do anything about the problem, that is lamentation but if we recognize it’s a problem and we do what is in our power to deal with the problem that is repenting and that is very good