May I offer my own observations,  Shamoli.
Guilt need not come in at all.
One simply observes; observe what is. Observe each thought or emotion that arises in the mind. There is no need to label, to provide name or to judge...Simply observe...
In this there is no guilt, no conflict...
Just observe and see what happens...

very interesting post!!! enjoyed

Hi Shamoli
Thanks for posting this - for the message. I tend to agree with you, the best way to move forward is to forgive ourselves, absolve ourselves of guilt and channelise the guilt positively. Easier said than done, but atleast we can try and practice.

Melody

Hi Shamoli

First of all thanks for recommending my post.

About guilt, it is up to oneself to use it to advantage. Some guilty feelings end up making us do good and help us avoid taking the wrong path. Just like learing from mistakes, one can learn from guilt too. Ofcourse as you said for some its damaging. Its a choice again how we handle....guilt.

To Ms. Shamoli Sarkar   

You have touched a very important issue. Sahaj Yoga provides solution to several other complications, too. 

So far as the guilt is concerned, Sigmund Freud had described 'guilt' as the feeling that is generated out of a conflict between 'ego' and the 'superego', i. e.  our parental imprinting or social imprinting on our psychic. If we think that we have done something that should have not been done, we feel guilty ourselves. 

It's the matter of our craving for matching ourselves with the general desire of the society, act as per the social norms. Say in India if one man and a woman reside togather without being married, they feel guilt. It is not the case in the western countries. Their parental imprint is different than ours. 

So the concept of guilt is totally our self-generated one, and if we renounce it ourselves then it does not exist. So when a saint or a guru says us to forget it, that is the only way to get rid of the guilt.

Naval Langa

Good blog Shamoli.....I guess, the act of "forgiveness " is an art  ---which  cannot be enforced or taught....it automatically comes from within. To me,  its an 'emblem of peace '  which a  person is blessed with at the very embryonic stage.

If you have a good heart ....you can further embellish it with amusing details......that perhaps makes one more cautious.....commit lesser sin.... thereby the problem of "feeling guilty "  automatically gets axed at the very outset !

How I wish it was so simple.......

Hi Shamoli,

Sometimes some words just hit at you, you knew them alright but did not consciously think  about it that way. Thank you for this blog. For the message of just accepting a mistake and moving on. 

Regards,

Aditi

One cant undo the past Shamoli, and future is not certain. What one has is NOW. Doing ones best now is the only reality. Guilt is negative. Fall, rise, fall, learn, evolve and move on...:-)

Cheers...Joker

Sometime we feel good when forgiving others for what they did but at the same time, the things we did in the past comes and haunts us all the time. We think we shouldn't have done that thing at that time but unfortunately it had happened.. It follows us and sometimes we find very hard to forgive ourselves more difficult. Its just my view ma'am.

Shamoli -  yes;   observing is a technique in Buddhist meditation and in the teachings of J.Krishnamurti - though it's certainly there in almost all our traditions