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prāyaschetta It may also be derived from prāyao, tapaścharana (asceticism), and chitta, establisling , hence it means the establishing of the mind properly in the observance of the rules relating to austerities. According to another derivation, it comes from prāya, the community of saints, and chitta, that which attracts the heart, and signifies the action that is pleasing to the heart of a sant Prāya also signifies a fault, and chetta is its atonement or eradication. Thus, prāyaschitta is intended for the purification of the soul and for the eradication of the taint of evil from the heart."
Confession is enjoined on all people who have embarked on the royage of self-conquest by means of disaplinary rots It has been said that one should not conceal one's faults from a doctor, a preceptor and a benevolent king. *
Prayaschitta has two aspects, the spiritual or lugher (1śchaya) and the physical or lorer (vyavahāra) The nischaya is the prāyaśchrtla proper in reality It consists in washing away the taint of evil by self-contemplation, that is to say, by immersion in the true Self, so to speak' all shortcomings are washed away speedily, that may, by the ablutions with the purifying 'Vision of the Self'The
