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Drop your FEAR and GREED

People ask me, ‘What is this, master? You are breaking basic laws. You are pulling down the whole social structure. You are pulling down the whole structure of rules and regulations. Then how can we all live morally? How will people live without morality? Why are you doing this?’

You see: for children, we need rules to introduce them to morality. But for us, it is time! We are not children anymore! It is time to stand up and have morals based on understanding, not based on fear and greed.

As long as morality is based on fear and greed, you can be sure that it is just skin deep. You can never be moral based on fear and greed. If fear and greed are the basis for your moral values, you will try all possible ways to escape them. For instance, you will speed just ten miles over the local speed limit and think, ‘As soon as I see a policeman, I can press the brake and slow down.’ understand that you are still a child. You are not a mature adult. If you are really grown up, your moral principles will be based on understanding, not on fear and greed. According to me, a mature person means a 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; a morality which is different from social morality; a morality that is not superficial. It arises out of our being. Our entire being experiences a different kind of well-being.

Let me tell you a beautiful story:

There was a Zen master in a small village. For some unknown reason, the King of the land declared that this master should be killed the next morning. The Zen master was informed of the king’s orders. The King had also said that the Zen master could do whatever he wanted until the next morning. He could live as he liked; he was given complete freedom.

But the master was seen following his daily routine even on his last day. He was seen gardening, fetching water from the well, cooking, serving his disciples and living in the same manner as before, like it was just another routine day.

His disciples asked him, ‘You are about to die tomorrow morning. Don’t you want to do something else?’

The master replied, ‘My life is based on a clear understanding. This is the best way I can live. I am totally fulfilled. I have nothing else I desire to do, whether I live for 24 hours or 2 hours. This is what I want to do. This is my enjoyment.’

If somebody gives us a similar deadline, ‘You will only live till tomorrow morning; you can do whatever you want until then,’ just look inside your mind; think of all the things you would do! You would probably live a life on this last day that you would never have lived before because of your suppression in the name of morality. That is why I say: our morality is superficial. We are controlling ourselves for some reason that we are not fully convinced about. We are not living life. As long as we don’t live life, we will always feel that we are missing something. The feeling that we are missing something is the primary reason why we fear death. Mostly, we are not afraid of death itself. We are afraid that we have not lived our life fully and therefore we are afraid to die! Actually, it is not fear of death. It is the fear of not having lived life fully.

Guilt is the root of fear of death. This is an important thing we should understand! Guilt is the root of greed also! As long as we suffer from guilt, we can never enjoy anything. One of my devotees told me, ‘Master, the moment I see an ice-cream, I get a cold. I don’t even have to eat it. If I just look at an ice-cream, I catch a cold.’ She had been suffering for the last twelve years. I attempted to trace the root of the problem with her; it was almost like psychoanalysis. I traced it to its root cause. Her mother created guilt in her about eating an ice-cream when she was a child. The mother didn’t want her to eat too much ice-cream, so she created guilt in her; a deep negative attitude towards ice-cream. The negative attitude was responsible for the allergic reaction triggered just by looking at icecream. When we were talking, she said, ‘Sometimes when I see an ice-cream, I can hear my mother’s voice saying, ‘Don’t eat!’ Even now I can hear her voice.’

All of us hear voices in us. Actually, we don’t even know how many times we hear voices! We are not so sensitive, which is why we don’t realize we can hear voices. Our being is a crowd of voices. Understand: we have reached a stage where our being is not just our being; it is a totality of a crowd of voices. All the voices are there: our mother’s voice, father’s voice, teacher’s voice, neighbor’s voice, professor’s voice, our hero’s voice, etc. We are a sum total of a crowd of voices. That is why we feel there is so much contradiction inside ourselves. If there were only one voice, we would never have a problem; our mind would flow like a river. This is a beautiful analogy that we should understand. The mind is like a river; like a stream! Guilt is like the rocks in the river. It blocks the flow, creating whirlpools, creating energy blocks. Any guilt we carry in our being is blocking energy. Similar to a blood clot, this is an energy clot. All the voices which are inside our mind are the cause of guilt. And this guilt kills our intelligence. As long as we flow like a river, like a stream, we will express extraordinary intelligence in our lives. We will express a different kind of intelligence; a different kind of energy; a different kind of bliss.

The moment we start creating guilt in ourselves, the moment we are stopped in our free flow, we create an energy clot inside our being; we create an energy clot in our mind. The older the culture, the greater the guilt. We tend to think that if our culture is old, we are better in some manner and so more guilt happens when we do things. All this will get offset when you operate out of consciousness. Read More : You Are No Sinner by Paramahamsa Nithyananda.