Page 41 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 5

ON REPENTANCE AND PARDON
This leads to the contemplation why most of us elders do not behave in this manner. Most of us when we fall down (figuratively) make a big fuss and even fail to try to make a second attempt. We feel so embarrassed that someone is aware of our failure that we do not make any second attempt. Or else because we failed we justify ourselves that we are not cut for that task and end up our attempts being afraid of a failure again.
The children when they fall do not perceive their falling down as a failure but treat it as a learning experience and feel compelled to try again. It means they have not associated falling down with failure. This association is one of the few that we need to get rid off. It is this association that is behind our half hearted attempts and no attempts to try again and succeed. In every one of us there is this child with courage to try and succeed and that needs to be strengthened when we have to resolve non repetition of the mistakes and errors in our behaviour. I believe that courageous part of us, that courageous child within us all, will always be with us for as long as we live. We only need to allow it to
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