1. Guilt - Lessons 4 to 5

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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

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In our life we are neither taught nor allowed to have the confidence that you have an intelligence in you. Always you are given only guilt.

Only if you live with the guilt, you can be easily exploited. The society which is created based on power and politics, the social systems which is created by shathriyas and vaishyas, means , business people and politicians, naturally will create, naturally will have techniques only to keep people in guilt.

The personality which you are carrying which creates guilt in you, that is a pure lie.

This idea of guilt, idea of confession, all these things are cunning, subtle way to exploit human beings. It's a very cunning, subtle way to keep people under the control.

Guilt is the worst killer of intelligence. Guilt will never let you move in your life.

Anger, guilt is nothing but, you not waiting for the - not having the patience till the transformation in you happens.

You don't trust the transformation is possible in you. You don't have patience for the transformation to happen in you.

There will be a deep sense of guilt in you because it is the same mind which is working. You use strong words when you are in anger and once the anger dies down, the same sharpness which is emitted is turned inwards to create a deep guilt. The height of the anger and the depth of the guilt are equal. If the height increases, the depth increases as well.

The more you remember the negative decisions or your mistakes, the more you create a guilt. One thing you should understand, guilt will again and again attract the same bad instances in our life. Its like pain will attract the pain. Money will attract the money. Joy will attract the joy.

When we measure ourselves as a low person, when we create a deep guilt in ourselves

All your fear, all your greed, all your guilt, all these things are just because your energy taken away by the past memory

Trusting you can have transformation, transformation will happen in you, removes the guilt from you.

The past is dead. Not only it is dead; it is a dead weight on your being. As long as you have guilt, you can never proceed; you can never have deep blissful life. Be very clear, you can never be moral based on guilt. If you are based on guilt, all your morality is skin deep

People ask me, 'Swamiji, what is this? You are pulling down the whole social structure. Then how can we all live morally?' I tell them, 'Be very clear, it is only for kids that you need a forced morality. For them you need to say, 'Keep quiet, I will give you candy.' Of course, nowadays kids reply, 'I am happy. I don't need your candy. Who cares for your candy!' For a child you can say that you will give candy and restrict him. You based on fear or greed. But up. You are not kids anymore. Just stand up with consciousness.

Don't try to escape from your being. Whatever it is, whether it is guilt, low mood or depression, or whatever is reality, face it. Let us see. Who else can face if you are not ready to face it? If you don't want to be with your being, nobody else will want to be with you. So, be very clear, only you face the reality of your being; you will be able to be with yourself. So, you have to face. You have to be with the reality. You have to seek the truth. Whether today or tomorrow,

The moment you express your anger, your guilt also will be released. Anger and guilt are two sides of the same coin. They are two different kinds of the same coin. Anger is the wonderful way to release guilt. The moment you become angry with the person who created guilt in you, you will come out of guilt.

By constantly remembering your past mistakes you will only create guilt, you will not develop yourself.

There are so many things goes on in your life, so many mistakes you do in your life; remembering those mistakes are no way going to make you rich, it's only going to create more and more guilt, that is no way going to help you. But by un-clutching from your past memories, you will assimilate the essence, experience of the mistakes.

We have some idea about how life should be, and we try to recreate or reproduce our imagination into reality. When we are not able to, we create a guilt. It goes on and on. It is a vicious circle.

You don't have enough energy because all your emotional energy is taken away by the past incidents or the people who are in your memory, either as attachment or anger or as guilt. Your whole energy, inner space is occupied.

Guilt is like a rock. It blocks the flow; creates a whirlpool. Creates energy block. Any guilt you carry in your being is a blockage of energy. Just like a blood clot, it is an energy clot. All the voices, which are inside your mind, are the root for guilt. Any guilt will kill your intelligence. As along as you flow like a river, like a stream, you will be expressing extraordinary intelligence in your life. You will express a different kind of intelligence; a different kind of energy; a different kind of bliss. The moment you start creating guilt in you, the moment you are stopped in your free flow, you create energy clot inside your being; you create energy clot inside your mind. Especially, the older your culture, more is the guilt.

Most of the time, your energy gets blocked based on your guilt. You have psychological illness because of your guilt. If you look deep, wherever you have fear, wherever you are not able to move, wherever you are not able to take decision, there will be some guilt.

When your social conditioning opposes the flow of your nature beyond certain limit the conflict which starts, results in guilt and which leads to frustration and finally depression

Whenever you cannot make other understand what you are telling, you leave others with guilt.

Only when you cannot understand, you will not be able to make others understand…

Making metaphysical into physical is creating morality out of understanding. As long as they are understandings, they are nectar for your life. They create a tremendous intelligence in your life. The moment they are reduced to a superstitious belief, the moment they are reduced as a morality, they create deep guilt in you. And guilt is the sure killer of intelligence.

Guilt will kill you when you are alive. Look little deep. What is the root cause of guilt? It is our idea about right and wrong. Our understanding about what is right and wrong. Only from that, the guilt starts.

1. you try your best to escape from it. 2) You create a deep guilt inside your being.

When you are given some rules based on the greed and fear, you start creating a deep guilt in you.

Guilt is the root for greed! As long as you have guilt, you can never enjoy anything.

When you get a certain guilt - the idea you have done something wrong, your skin glow drastically reduces! That is what in our tradition we mention again & again if this sin comes to you, you will lose your grace - means that shining of that skin will disappear, the aura will disappear. When people come out of guilt, their skin starts shining!

When you start internalizing the laws of society, you create a deep wound in your being. You destroy your innate intelligence. According to me, children can be given a set of rules initially so they don't move from the path of consciousness. But soon they have to be given the understanding of life and the need to operate from consciousness instead of conscience. If you live with consciousness, you will automatically live a moral life. To start understanding the need to live with consciousness, just look into your morality.

Morality is only skin deep, whereas consciousness comes from the very being. Your consciousness tries to break through your conscience. Your consciousness continuously fights with your conscience. Conscience is societal. Consciousness is natural. Conscience is a poor substitute for consciousness.

People ask me, 'Swamiji, what is this? You are pulling down the whole social structure. Then how can we all live morally?' I tell them, 'Be very clear, it is only for kids that you need a forced morality. For them you need to say, 'Keep quiet, I will give you candy.' Of course, nowadays kids reply, happy. I don't need your candy. Who cares for your candy!' For a child you can say that you will give candy and restrict him. You can impose morality on him based on fear or greed. But for you, it is time to grow up. You are not kids anymore. Just stand up with consciousness.

"When I say consciousness, I mean the intelligent energy of your being"

Make them aware of the importance of rules; and the necessity of understanding why we are following it.

• What happens when we do not follow rules? What is the importance of following the rules? What happens when we follow the rules without understanding the rules?
• What is consciousness? What is conscience?

If we live with consciousness we will automatically live a moral life. Follow the rules by understanding the reason behind it. Conclusion:

MATERIALS NEEDED: Paper, Pen (or) Sketch (or) Pencil, Pictures

Give each child the materials needed. Ask them to draw the pictorial representation of how they feel when they forgive themselves for what they have done wrong. Let each child be given a chance to explain what they have drawn.

Guilt is the original sin. Accepting the mistake and forgiving yourself is the only way to overcome guilt and enjoy life.

To make the children understand when we speak & lie we will never be confident, when we speak through our whole body supports us.

To make the children understand when we speak & lie we will never be confident, when we speak through our whole body supports us.

Make the children sit in pairs facing each other

Ask each child to stretch his hand out and tell two things one is true and the other one is fake (a lie) and now ask the other child to press the palm of the child with his one finger at who is telling the two things. Ask the other child to take a turn & repeat this activity

When the child is telling a lie when his friend applies pressure on his pattern his palm will go down. But when the child is telling a truth when his friend applies pressure his palm will not go down. Because when we tell a child we will always take confidence because we feel guilty but when we talk truth we will very confident and our whole body will support us for the truth.

Writing down the whole painful episode (worst episode)- Writing down the worst personal incidents of life. Children can be put in pairs and write and discuss it with their friends

Explain to the children that they can write down the entire painful episodes that have occurred in their lives and they can talk it out with their close friends or pairs.

When we talk about the whole worst episode we re-live the moment, we relive the incident that makes our thoughts complete about that incident. When we re-live that incident we get relieved of the emotional pain of the worst incident.

Following Rules by being Inspired as a natural outcome of feeling Responsible

When anything is a forced rule, you always try to get around it. For example, you always speed when you don't see the policeman. When you follow rules blindly without understanding their spirit, this is what happens – you just wait for an excuse to break them

Honestly answer yourself: if there were no rules, no regulating authority to keep a check on what you did, would you be the same person as you are now? Would you be doing things in the same way as you do now? If your answer is no, be very clear that the rule is coming from your your consciousness. You have not internalized the spirit of the rule or you do not agree with the rule. That is the reason you are not doing things in a way natural to you.

You can see, when you tell children not to do something, they will be most tempted to do it. As long as you don't mention anything about doing it or not doing it, they may not even be bothered about it. But the moment you tell them not to do something, they will be looking to do it.

A Small Story: One man says, 'I found three ways to get things done.' His friend asks, 'What are the three ways?' The man replies, 'First, do it yourself. Second, hire someone to do it. Third, tell your kids not to do it. That's all,

it will be done!' Actually thereis ataste,athrillin doing what youarenotsupposedtodo. Mostofthetime, youdevelopaninstanturge for somethingifyouareasked not todoit. Youfeelakind of joy or satisfactionbydoing it. That is thebasictendency ineveryhumanbeing.

People come and ask me, 'How do I make my son do what I advice him to? I know it is good for him but he won't listen to me.' You have to understand two things. First thing, if they feel that something is giving them happiness, just let them be. Only life can teach them, you cannot teach them. You cannot teach anybody, only life can teach. You can put a few words into them so that it echoes when life teaches them the same thing, that's all.

Second thing, unless they need help, your help cannot help them. When they need your help they will come. See, your idea of happiness and unhappiness has come out of your experience. Just think, did you listen to your father when you were young? No. You did not. Taking Responsibility for your choices-The only way to raise consciousness of self and others. When something is told to you, if you take full responsibility of deciding whether it is right or wrong, you can avoid all guilt feelings

If you don't take responsibility for your decision, you will feel discontented whether you do the action or not. If you do as you are told, you will feel that you are being dominated, that you are not being assertive, that you are being exploited. If you don't do as you are told, you start feeling guilty that maybe it was the right thing to do.

. There is no need for this unnecessary dilemma. Just be simple. Respond intelligently. Take responsibility for doing whatever you are going to do. Then there is no question of guilt. If you are not going to do it, explain clearly to the person why you are not going to do it. When you explain, the other person may agree with you and may even be thankful to you for it

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Or he may have stronger and better reasons than you to justify what he is saying, then you will be thankful to him for raising your intelligence. In this way, you could use every opportunity, every moment in life to raise your intelligence, to raise you consciousness.

Instilling I'm each child that taking responsibility for your choices is The only way to raise consciousness of self and others.

• What is the best rule in life?
• What do we mean when we say "participate with yourselves"?
• What is proving?
• Where is it coming from?
• What should we accept?
• When should we unclutch?
• How to use 'Thank you'? Are we using 'Thank you' to be polite or is it helping us to melt down?
• How can we express compassion? Why shouldn't we compare?

MATERIALS NEEDED: White sheet, Pencil (or) Sketch pen

Give each child the materials needed. Encourage the children to draw any picture blind folded. Children then can see the picture which they have drawn and talk about it.

Connect to the concept that guilt makes us blind so that we cannot see the real picture Explain to the children when we are in guilt we will not make correct decisions, we cannot see the real picture

Get some beads/ stones and ask the children to sit in a circle

Ask the children to sit it a circle and explain to the children that one child has to take few beads without showing others with their fist closed and must ask others whether they are having even, or odd beads/stones. They can also avoid taking any beads and have empty fist and ask the other children whether they have odd, even or none. Each child will take turns and play this game.

A child when showing empty closed fist sometimes, cannot hide because their face will show as they may laugh or keep very quiet. Connect it to the concept if we do something which leads to guilt we cannot hide it.