In plain words
What does Repentant mean? "Forgive me my faults. I have done wrong": confessing this and receiving the gift of forgiveness is called Repentant. All this, too, we in Bhārata have been following from ancient times. Making some vows or other, and our troubles being removed once the vows are paid: these are merely delusions born of a petty attitude. Even in this sacred land, at one time and another, man has fostered all such delusions and becomes bound in those very delusions. We must root out such delusions. We must not waste time in mere blind beliefs. We must strive to know the true form of Satya. To know this form of Satya, we must also carry out some kinds of inquiry. We must foster such sacred feelings in these young people from day to day.
Before Christ, many great souls, all of them, gave such sacred and divine teachings and took a fitting vow to foster the oneness that was in the people. In the year 400 BC there was a philosopher named Socrates. The first disciple of this Socrates was Aristotle. The disciple of this Aristotle was Alexander. All of them, from that time on, laboured in many ways to teach divine teachings and to bring sacred Divinity to the people through inquiry. They were men who dedicated their lives to Satya. Socrates gathered young men around him and tried, in many ways, through gentleness, through fear, through Prema and through trust, to bring this spiritual principle into their hearts. Saying that all young men might go astray on such a path, the rulers of that day criticised Socrates in many ways, that his path was a very perverse path and that he was spoiling the young men, and at last they put Socrates in a jail. But he went on proclaiming firmly the truth that what he did was the path of Satya, a teaching of Satya, and that without Divinity there is no world. But at one time some of his followers, all of them together, said, "Master! We will try somehow to get you out of this jail. You go from this kingdom to another kingdom," they told him, and tried in many ways. He said, "Chī! For the sake of this physical, this petty life, should I labour for Asatya?