Repenting Is No Use. Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

You get guilt for the act of your ego.
You do atonement to redress the ego.
You repent the act to put right the ego.
You lament your doing to refresh the ego.

Repentance does least to transform yourself.
What it does is rejuvenate your ego
So that ailing ego is positioned
To repeat what it has been accustomed to.

Being religious makes not one pious.
Being ritual makes not one noble.
To turn good, atonement is of no use.
By resolution you can vow to be good.
24.09.2018