Acharya Prashant addresses the common human experience of repeating mistakes and then feeling regret, which he characterizes as hypocrisy rather than true repentance. He explains that if one truly felt shame or disgust for an action, they would not have performed it in the first place. True repentance is not about hiding one's actions or feeling bad about them later; it is about the realization that the person who committed the act is not who you truly are. He distinguishes between 'regret' (pachhtava), which is merely beating one's chest while remaining the same person, and 'atonement' (prayashchit), which signifies a complete full stop to the tendencies that led to the act. Atonement means becoming new and moving beyond the cycle of guilt and repetition.