How to get rid of past sins?

(Shri Kunal Chatterjee, Smt. Suchandra Chatterjee, Ms. Noishadha Chatterjee from Mumbai, Prof. JSR Prasad, Ms. Thrylokya, Smt. Anita R, Ms. Bhanu Samykya, Mr. Abhiram, Mr. Hrushikesh and Prof. Annapurna attended this Satsanga and the flashes of spiritual knowledge radiated from Shri Datta Swami are given below in a condensed way.)

[A question by Mrs. Suchandra]

Swami Replied:- Past sins of a specific type like killing or stealing etc., can be cancelled provided you realize that it is a sin, then, you repent for that sin and then, finally, you do not repeat that type of sin. Remember that this applies to the specific type only. It means that if you are not repeating the stealing by corruption, all your sins related to stealing by corruption alone get cancelled and suppose you are continuing killing others (including animals, birds, fish etc.), the killing type of sins are not cancelled. This is a very important point.