INTRODUCTION🔗

Guilt is actually the shadow of
the ego. When somebody says
something and you become
angry, it is the ego, your idea
about yourself, that causes the
anger. But right after, you
start feeling guilty about
losing your temper. Now, too,
it is the same ego that causes
the guilt. It gives you the
feeling that you could have
done differently to change the
situation, but you did not do
it. This is the dilemma.

The ego creates the
problem and the same ego
goes on harboring guilt. If
you understand this game
of the ego, you can simply
drop the guilt. Without
allowing ego, if you allow
only awareness, you will
neither get unduly angry
nor will you suffer for it.
Because of the awareness,
you will not be blinded
with anger. You will get
angry only to the extent
required and automatically
there will not be any guilt
either!

If you have made a mistake
there are two ways to treat it.
One is to feel guilty. If you feel
guilty, you will commit the
same mistake again. Guilt is
the way to commit the same
mistake again because you
forget the mistake and start
focusing on the guilt. If you
focus on the mistake, you will
know how and where you
went wrong and so you will
not repeat it. If you focus on
the guilt, you will not even
analyze how and where you
went wrong, so you are still
very much capable of making
the same mistake again!

To make them aware of
how ego manifests as
guilt, how being happy
is itself associated with
feelings of guilt.

Conclude the topic by reviewing the
important details. Drop ego and feel
the happiness without the guilt.

Write down ten things
which went wrong in your
life

Each child is asked to write down
a list of ten things which went
wrong in their life. For example,
each child can write about their
worst experiences like

INFERENCE:
Ask everybody to tell what
they felt during that
particular movement. What
are the patterns created,
how life has happened to
them? This activity gives
them an opportunity to re-
live that particular incident.
This helps them to be aware
of the thoughts which lead
them to the negative things
in life.

Children love to twirl but
parents instill the fear in the
child that they might fall and
get hurt because of tumbling.
'No' by the mother actually has
a deep impact on the child. It
creates guilt in the child. If the
mother says 'No' for playing in
the rain and jumping, the child
forces himself to stay in, or if he
goes out without telling his
parents, he will feel guilty, he
will be afraid that somebody
might spot him. As the child
grows, this deep ingrained sense
of guilt will actually settle inside
him. Small incidents like this
collect and make guilt your
natural way of life. For example
when you pour milk if mother
shouts at you, learn from this
incident to be more careful and
aware.

Guilt created by the society:
From seven to fourteen,
society creates guilt in you
through its rules. The guilt
based on fear is created by
social laws. Follow rules by
understanding. Society instils
in you the feeling that you
are not enough unto yourself.
It makes you feel guilty of
what you are and what you
do. The guilty person can
never be at ease with himself.
He will always lack self
confidence. This is where
society steps in and exploits
him. Society functions on
your guilt, the more you feel
guilty, the more society
becomes powerful.

Guilt created by you
(ourselves): The guilt sown in
you by family and society grows
roots inside you. Then you start
creating guilt for yourself
without any reason. The guilt
created by family and the guilt
created by the society are
imposed guilt. They are like a
crown that is passed on from
one generation to another. But
the third guilt is the one which
we create for ourselves. When
you internalize guilt based 'on
greed and fear', you create new
types of guilt for yourself

Guilt is a manifestation of ego. We
have to remember when we point at
somebody for some mistakes we have
to understand only one finger points
at them the other three fingers points
at us.