Advaita

Mistakes. A fundamental and default setting that we all come with is making mistakes. No human ever progressed without committing at least one in his or her lives. In fact, our civilization is standing upon a pile of mistakes that we made, have still been doing and probably will commit for times to come. Interestingly, with mistakes comes the guilt and repentance. However, is that it? We ought to remain in guilt and repent forever? We will make mistakes and stay in grief over them? No! You learn from them. That is what you do. Guilt and Repentance are the precursors to learning from your mistakes. Simply grieving about what you did is not going to help at all. You need to collect yourself, all that guilt and use it as fuel to transform yourself. Bring about a change in your perception and mend what went wrong in the first place. It is true that while you made a mistake at something, someone else might be excelling at the very same thing. And that is perfectly fine. We all have our sho...