Chapter 20: Morality
SMALL STORY
(His Divine Holiness Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam has delivered almost 20,000 hours of recorded talks till date. As part of the talks, He shares simple small stories that give powerful A cognitive shifts to the listener. Following is one such story.)
Integrity
Please understand that morality should happen out of integrity, not out of guilt. What do I mean by integrity? Integrity is being in the present moment and being only one solid personality and not many conflicting personalities. It is seeing reality without the play of the mind. Once the mind steps in, duality also steps in. Just by being intensely aware of the present moment, you can achieve integrity where there is only one and not two or three or many personalities fighting in you. Only when the mind flits between the past and future, you become split personalities and integrity doesn't set in. If the mind is on the present, automatically you become unified and integrity sets in.
A small story:
One day, a priest knelt before god and started crying loudly, 'I am a sinner. Please have mercy on me, O god.'
A man who was praying silently got inspired by this and also knelt down next to the priest and started praying.
Now, another man also went down on his knees and started crying. Seeing this, the priest nudged the first man saying, 'Look who thinks he is a sinner.'
All our humility, our morality, are more or less a pretence to others and to ourselves. We pretend because we are not solidly integrated within us. We ourselves don't know which personality within us is authentic and so we get caught in such games. If we are integrated, we will be authentic in every action, and automatically we will be moral.
Be aware, be spontaneously right
Please understand, you will never make mistakes if you are deeply aware at the time of making them. When you are aware, you will be one solid personality and moral as well. When you stray from awareness, you will be many personalities and immoral also. Morality has to do with awareness, not with any other social rules. Awareness is the only way to be naturally moral. Awareness causes you to spontaneously take the right action in the right situation. Morality can cause you to do the wrong action in the right situation because it doesn't have the right base. Its base is not your own, it is built up by society. So you don't feel connected to it. When you don't feel connected, you cannot act with confidence. Once you integrate yourself, you will be centered upon awareness. If you remain fragmented, there will be no awareness and you will depend on morality for guidance.
Go beyond right and wrong...
What is the root cause of guilt? It is our idea about right and wrong, our understanding about what is right and what is wrong. What is the scale to measure right or wrong?
In Hinduism*, vegetarianism is considered right. In Christianity, non-vegetarianism is thought to be right. In Hinduism*, you can marry only once. In Islam you can marry several times. In Hinduism*, you can't drink alcohol and liquor. In Christianity*, Jesus himself consumed wine. You are caught in rules like, 'If you eat this, you are guilty', 'If you drink that, you are guilty.'
There are so many rules and so many regulations in different places, different situations and different societies. Where is the scale for all the so-called morality? In the course of time, it becomes morality. If you read the ancient scriptures, the epics of India like the Mahabharata* , the princess
Draupadi*was married to five men! Kunti,The mother of the Pandavas*, the heroes of the epic, had five sons from five different men.
At different times, different rules were formed by different leaders. In a particular society, certain things that were considered moral were considered in another society to be immoral. In America, there are such differing moral standards that I saw. In one state, casinos are allowed, whereas in the Neighboring state, casinos are illegal. Where is the scale of right or wrong? For one person, a particular food is nectar, whereas for another person, the same food is poison! As long as you are caught in right and wrong, you will never function with restfulness. You will only be guilty. You have to go beyond right and wrong into your own consciousness. There lies the key.
Hinduism - Religion of most Indians. Developed from the Vedic principles of Sanatana dharma, the eternal law,that gave rise to other religions such as Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism etc.
Christianity - Religion based on teachings of Jesus Christ.
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