Repentance - an essential subject

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Repentance is a word not often used in the vocabulary of modern people. Nowadays, the trend is, if it feels good, just do it, no matter the consequences. Thus people are doing all kinds of sinful activities which is dulling their conscience and they never turn to repentance in order to break this chain of sin.

But actually repentance is necessary for turning away from activities which are against the best interest of us, as pure spirit souls. Sinful activities will degrade us and instead of moving upwards we will go down to lower and lower levels of consciousness. So by genuine repentance, we will detach ourselves from this destructive pattern, turn away from sin and turn back towards the uplifting process of self-realization. Repentance attracts God to forgive our errors and positively bless us to have the strength to change that which is amiss in our life.

Srila Prabhupada's books, lectures, conversations and letters offer a comprehensive presentation of this essential subject as seen in the Vaniquotes Repentance category. An introduction from his books is given below in the following 8 quotes.

Quotes from Srila Prabhupada's books


vanipedia.org 		The pious King regretted his accidental improper treatment of the powerful brāhmaṇa, who was faultless. Such repentance is natural for a good man like the King, and such repentance delivers a devotee from all kinds of sins accidentally committed. The devotees are naturally faultless. Accidental sins committed by a devotee are sincerely regretted, and by the grace of the Lord all sins unwillingly committed by a devotee are burnt in the fire of repentance. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.19.1)



vanipedia.org 		The King, being a devotee of the Lord, did not approve of his own action, and thus he began to wonder whether the sage was really in a trance or was just pretending in order to avoid receiving the King, who was a kṣatriya and therefore lower in rank. Repentance comes in the mind of a good soul as soon as he commits something wrong. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.18.31)



vanipedia.org 		There are many cases in which a person becomes an offender to the lotus feet of a Vaiṣṇava and later becomes repentant. Here also we find that although the King of heaven, Indra, was so powerful that he accompanied Lord Viṣṇu, he felt himself a great offender for stealing Pṛthu Mahārāja's horse that was meant for sacrifice. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.20.18)



vanipedia.org 		When one's good intelligence is separated or neglected, he fully engages in sinful activities. Due to neglecting one's good intelligence, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one becomes bewildered and engages in sinful activities. Upon realizing this, a man becomes repentant. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.26.18)



vanipedia.org 		He (The Supersoul) is in the heart of every living entity, but He can be realized only by a soul who is repentant. The individual soul becomes repentant that he forgot his constitutional position, wanted to become one with the Supreme Soul and tried his best to lord it over material nature. He has been baffled, and therefore he is repentant. At that time, Supersoul, or the relationship between the Supersoul and the individual soul, is realized. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.31.13)



vanipedia.org 		If one is serious in accepting a religious life, or the path of salvation, he must adhere to the four basic rules and regulations. However sinful a man may be, if he receives knowledge from the proper spiritual master and repents his past activities in his sinful life and stops them, he immediately becomes eligible to return home, back to Godhead. This is made possible just by following the rules and regulations given by the śāstra and following the bona fide spiritual master. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.26.10)



vanipedia.org 		The external energy, which is employed in illusioning those living beings who want to have it, subsides by the will of the Lord in terms of repentance and penance for the conditioned soul. And the very same energy then acts to help the purified living being make progress on the path of self-realization. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.3.34)



vanipedia.org 		Dhruva Mahārāja repented because he had come to the Lord to render devotional service for material profit. He here condemns his attitude. Only due to gross lack of knowledge does one worship the Lord for material profit or for sense gratification. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.9.9)



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