Guilt a Tool for Transformation || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Feel like punishing yourself? || Acharya Prashant, with IIT Kharagpur (2022)

Transcript

00:00When I am not able to complete a task, I really feel that I didn't need to somehow punish

00:06myself.

00:07We call things as mistakes only to relieve ourselves of guilt.

00:12We say, oh, I didn't want to do it, it happened by mistake.

00:15It's not a mistake, it's a part of your normal algorithm.

00:20That's how you are.

00:21Why are you calling it a mistake?

00:23And if that's the way you are, irrespective of how much you punish or condemn yourself

00:27for that mistake, you'll continue making those so-called mistakes because you'll continue

00:33being yourself.

00:34You are the mistake.

00:36So the punishment is, do not remain who you are, otherwise the mistakes will remain as

00:41they are.

00:43Use your guilt to your advantage.

00:46When you really, sincerely feel guilty, then that guilt is transformational.

00:51Then that guilt catalyzes a deep change in yourself.

00:57And I think it's a matter of dishonesty if one keeps saying, oh, I'm guilty, I deserve

01:02punishment, this, that, and still does not change.