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this positive enthusiasm that follows from repentance
that changes an evil deed into a good one.

If you make a mistake that arouses anger in another, but
then you repent and say, ‘Please forgive me, I was wrong,’
this will certainly cause the aggrieved person to undergo
a change of heart. Such an apology will, on the one hand,
inculcate positivity in your soul and, on the other hand,
it will promote a culture of love among people you are
living with. In family life as well as social life, untoward
events are unavoidable. Such happenings sour relations
and create distance between people. The best solution is
to repent sincerely. Do not wait for others to take the
lead.

If, after doing an evil deed, one chooses to continue on
the same path, it makes a person even more inclined to
evil. On the contrary, engaging in introspection would
cause him to make up his mind not to indulge in evil
again. If he does so, the evil deed he commits becomes a
cause of leading him to goodness.

Repentance is an instrument of self-correction, initiating
a process of self-assessment. This process is vital, as it
enhances your intellectual calibre and leads to spiritual
development. Repentance is an inner spirit, a readiness
to atone for every kind of mistake.

The source of repentance is one’s conscience (zameer).
It is not possible that a person does something wrong
and that his conscience does not get affected by it. The
only condition is that a person should be honest with
his conscience so that he does not neglect the voice of
his conscience. Gandhi used to say, “Thus my inner sight

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