Educational Article

Admit your mistake

Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai
Enlightened ones say that if you perceive your mistake in the right way, despair can never arise. The reason for your sadness and despair is that you actually do not want to accept your mistake, but are compelled to do so. Your ego does not let you admit that you are filled with passions and mistakes. When you are caught red-handed and have to reluctantly admit, you develop complexes. This occurs when you intend to defend your ego and not honestly own up. The negative emotions reveal the importance you have given to your ego instead of admitting your fault.


If you are controlling your passions, say, anger, only so that you can protect your image, then the anger will keep erupting every now and then, because you continue to nurture its cause, the ego. Your suffering is not because you did what you shouldn’t have done, but because you could not protect yourself from being seen as guilty, you could not secure your self-created image. When the image you have created gets tainted, you cannot bear to see it. He who honestly accepts his mistake, his goal is to be pure and peaceful and so he puts right efforts to remove it.
You ask for atonement but your focus remains on the deed and not on the impurity latent in your intention. Thus, by falsely repenting and taking atonement, you try saving your image but not move in the direction of transformation.The meaning of true repentance is overcoming the passion or emotion that had led you to commit the mistake, end of the intention that prompted you to sin.

  1. Title and its appropriateness:

 

 The title of the article is,"Admit your mistake".The author of this article is Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai. The author in this article says that people who do not accept their mistakes but their ego first. generally, there ego ends up empty-handed, when people are caught red-handed, they don't accept their mistake.

 In fact they pretend that they are innocent. For people their anger and ego have become much important. Writer says "one who honestly accepts ones mistake, goal are to be pure and peaceful so he puts right efforts to remove it. The meaning of true repentance is overcoming the passion or emotion that had led us to commit mistake, end of the intention that prompted you to sin.

 Thus, I think the title is appropriate as it reflex the idea of the texts. 

2. Aim of the article:

  The aim of this article is that the author wants today's people to be strong enough to accept their mistakes. He wants people not to put their ego and attitude first. He presented the 'mantra' of success by accepting the mistakes. He said the person who admits his mistakes get towards his goal early and peacefully. He said ego will only let the person down and will make them a failure. The person who admits his mistake is loved and respected by all.

3. Central Idea:

• Beginning- In the beginning, the writer indicates that people are egoistic and generally don't accept their mistakes even if caught red handed. For people their ego and status is much more important. Writer says that everybody commits mistakes, but the main reason for their sadness and despair is that they do not accept them

• Middle- In the middle, the writer has demonstrated some examples and the  results of people who do not accept their mistakes.

 

 

• Ending- In the ending, the writer wants today's generation to accept their mistakes and to overcome from it. He wants people to clear their mistakes and work honestly. Goals can be achieved only when one accepts one's mistakes. He wants people to apologize from whom so ever they have had hurted and to go  straight towards their goal.

4. Connection with reality:

Many people at different ages are not ready to accept their mistakes even if caught red-handed. For today's society ego and status are the only things that comes first. For them, admitting mistakes is next to become inferior, which they can't tolerate. Thus, the writer can't address to change their mentality as this small change can lead to a great and successful life. So, yes, I think this topic is related to the whole society.

5. Co relation with educational system:

Yes, some subjects like moral science are taught in schools to make students understand their mistakes and accept the same. But in the practical life, no such education is being imparted. It is also a bookish knowledge as per students. Students don't pay much attention on it. They find it boring and unrealistic. 

6. Aim of the article:

The writer focuses on the people who do not accept their mistakes. people feel ashamed to accept their mistakes and apologize for the same. In this article the writer wants people to not to feel shy or guilty to accept their mistakes. People should not commit the same mistakes again and again. People should work hard for their goals and should be ready to accept their mistakes even a small one without any fear.