20. Conscience is no substitute for Consciousness!
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Freedom is our true nature. We are totally and completely free from everything that binds us.
Understand this!
When we express this freedom, with the choices we make, we enter the spiritual path. Rules and regulations are only superficial, artificial and imposed by the society. Our morality, like our concepts, keeps changing.
People tell me, 'What is this Master? You are breaking all the basic laws. You are pulling the whole social structure. You are breaking the entire structure, the nuts of bolts, the rules and regulations of the society. How can we all live morally? How will people live with morality? What are you doing?’
Nithyananda tells them, “Be very clear. You need forced morality only for kids! You can tell a kid, ‘If you keep quiet, and you are good I will give you candy.’ Of course, nowadays kids say, ‘I am happy as I am. I don’t need your candy. I am happy jumping around. Who cares for your candy?’ To a kid you can say I will give candy or I will beat you. You can impose morality based on fear or greed on kids.”
It is time to act now! We are not kids anymore! It is time to stand up and be moral based on our understanding. Our morality should not be based on fear and greed. As long as our morality is based on fear and greed, we can be certain, that it is only skin deep. It is just skin deep!
We can never be moral, based on fear and greed. If fear and greed from the basis for our morality, we will definitely try all possible ways to escape from it. For instance, we will speed just ten miles over the local speed limit. We think, ‘As soon as I see a cop, I can step on the break and slow down.’
As long as our morality is based on fear and greed, we are undoubtedly a child. We are not mature. If we are truly grown up, our morality should be based on understanding.
Be clear! A mature person means the person who lives a happy, blissful, and quiet life without fear and greed. When we drop our fear and greed, a new kind of morality arises in our being. It is not the shallow, social morality. This morality arises from our consciousness and provides our whole being with a different kind of well being. This consciousness brings freedom. Choose it all the time.