396--Q&A WITH SWAMIJI-- Our behaviour from a distance

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Question from Steve Bingoananda :

Vashista's Yoga says, if one's own [possibly adharmic] behavior is

"held at a distance" from consciousness and there is no

identification, the ego-sense does not arise.

 

On the other hand, it also seems useful to fully acknowledge one's own

faults and more or less confess them to oneself or Shiva in

meditation.

 

Swamiji, what is best, to forget, or to acknowledge, one's own faults

[as they are displayed for all to see in the field of life] or, does

the ideal response change according to circumstances and the state of

one's devotion at the time?

 

Swamiji's response:

 

Acknowledge, correct, appreciate and forget.