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To tell you honestly, I was always afraid to speak on this subject of Collective Consciousness because there is too much truth involved in speaking out on this subject.

Man as such cannot handle too much of truth. If the truth is up to 30% or 40%, he can handle it well. But beyond that, the truth starts transforming him. He feels that the ground on which he is standing is moving away. To tell you honestly, none of us really wants to know the truth. If truth were to be given out honestly, there would be no one willing to accept it, except for a few teachers. The moment honest truths are given, people begin to get frightened. This includes both the teacher as well as the listener!

The bottom line is: Truth frightens us!

A western philosopher has written beautifully, 'Please don't take lies away from man. Let him live on them, live with them.' It is indeed too much for us to bear to have our lies taken away. These lies are the fundamentals for us to live life.

Lies are the base on which we live.

Why do you think we put on make up, dye our hair and dress up? Why do we dress up in a colorful way when we know that we are hiding the true self within ourselves? We do not want to see the truth; we don't want to face the fact that we have become old! We cannot accept the truth of our ageing and so we pretend, fantasize and lie. We know that we are not what we show ourselves to be. There are many ways in which we try to hide the truth. Why do you think we have so many social courtesies? We respect each other. But other than this respect, for the sake of social courtesies, we follow so many formalities. We are taught from childhood to say 'please' and 'thank you', irrespective of whether we mean it or not, irrespective of whether the situation demands it or not. We do it only because social etiquette says so. Whenever we meet someone, we say, 'Nice to meet you', even though we may dislike the person intensely!

Why do you think we prepare so many courteous words before meeting someone? When we meet someone, we always say, 'Nice to meet you', 'It feels so nice to be around you'. After some time we say, 'I need to go now; I have to take care of some work.' Why say such things? If we really feel nice, our whole being will radiate it. The joy will be expressed by our very body language. We need not even verbalize it.

Be very clear: if we really feel nice, our whole body, our being will show it.

We would not need to say, 'Nice to meet you' for the other person to understand this. Our whole body language, our smile, our sheer pleasure of meeting that person will make it obvious to the person. Understand what I am trying to say. I am not against social courtesies. I am only saying, instead of practicing courteous words, you can practice radiating goodness from your being. It will show more than just courtesy!

The more civilized a country or people as they believe themselves to be are, the less natural they are in expressing the truth of their feelings. When someone smiles, the smile comes only from the lips; it is a plastic smile. The smile never touches the eyes. The eyes never smile, nor does the heart smile. Laughter emanates and stops at the mouth.

True laughter however comes from the belly. If a person truly laughs with the feeling coming from his stomach, people stare at him as if he is guilty of misconduct, guilty of expressing the truth of his feelings.

We know that the truth is something else but we dare not face the truth. Neither in the verbal language nor in the body language do we feel that we can afford to be truthful.

The simple truth is that truth straight away gives us enlightenment; it transforms us.

Let me tell you, there are so many ideas out there. The moment you imbibe a single point of truth or a single dimension of truth in any way, you can do wonders. Just catching a single true idea and imbibing it honestly is enough!

Vivekananda says beautifully, 'Even if you memorize all the books in all the libraries of the world, it will not help you in any way other than increasing your ego over the bookish knowledge you would obtain. Use only one idea and try to imbibe it in your being; experience it in your life; your life will be transformed; even a single idea, just one idea is enough!'

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