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MORALITY IS JUST SKIN DEEP

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Be with Consciousness not with Conscience

No morality can be practiced. It is great to give as advice, not for practice. If you understand and practice things, you will automatically fall in tune with your higher Self. Then there is no need to fear heaven or hell. Morality practiced to soothe your conscience is just skin deep. It is just done to awaken either fear or greed, and make you comply. Morality should be based on consciousness. Otherwise you need cops to enforce it. As soon as cops are out of sight, you will indulge. Breaking any law gives you pleasure. Kids feel they are grown up when they can say 'no' to rules. If you understand any rule, you will not want to violate it. All violence, all depression, all suffering on planet Earth are because of social and moral rules imposed on us without understanding.

You do not commit sins and go to hell. You commit sins because you are in hell. If you are relaxed and happy with yourself, you will never be violent and

A young boy with a tilak on his forehead looking up with hands near face
Hands working on a detailed sculpture

commit sins. Only when you are restless, not at ease with yourself, you feel it necessary to find fault with others and commit violence. You do good things because you are in heaven not the other way around. There is no exchange counter between this world and the next. If you do charity, you don't get any pass to heaven. There will be no one at the pearly gates waiting for you with a golden key. Do charity for the joy it gives you; that's the heaven on earth when you are still alive. .

Paramahamsa
Yoga - Eight Points to Ponder
14 April 2005, St. Louis, USA

INSPIRATION IS ENOUGH

Things will happen automatically

In village society, you are not given moralities, you are given truths. At least in my case, my grandfather used to tell a lot of stories from mythology. Whenever you are made to understand deeply, it doesn't stay as conscience, it becomes part of your being. It is not a rule. When it is given as a rule, it becomes mere conscience, and naturally you will try to break it.

My elders used to tell me clear mythological stories explaining what for, what is. It used to be an inspiration. Recently we got hold of a book which I used before my enlightenment. When I read the book, I was shocked at how many people have inspired me! How from them all, I derived inspiration. Throughout that book, I have not written a single morality. I have written only stories; only inspiration could be felt in that book!

So earlier, you were given only inspiration, never laws. It was only techniques. Actually if you receive techniques, it will directly lead to consciousness. If you receive only instructions, it will lead to only conscience. Teachings will create conscience, techniques will create consciousness.

Paramahamsa
Dhyana Spurana Program (DSP)
USA

Children studying

Paramahamsa stands outside the
Laughing Temple in the Bangalore
ashram, India - 2004.

Paramahamsa outside Laughing Temple
A woman twirling joyfully