Living Enlightenment Book
Page number - 67
If you look into your life you can see how every moment you are subtly looking for some reason to fight with yourself, to feel discontent with yourself. You cannot remain without some conflict, you want to create misery for yourself because that is what you have been taught – happiness is a sin.
The stone of guilt in the river of your mind - the block in the flow of intelligence
You are designed to move like a freely flowing river. Guilt is like the rocks in the path of the water. Society has subtly branded happiness as a sin. That is the problem. That is why you will notice, when everything is going smoothly and happily, there will be a lurking feeling of guilt in you.
You are taught by society that being happy and enjoying life is being irresponsible in a way. So you feel guilty.
But when you feel sad and depressed, do you ever feel guilty? No!
You are taught that life is a chain of suffering and endurance, with happiness stepping in once in a while.
This is also why people can't take it when you are happy and smiling all the time. They try their best to bring you back to the so-called reality - by instilling guilt in you.
When you are enjoying, dancing or relaxing at the beach for example, suddenly you will observe guilt starts rising in you about all the work that is pending, about all the responsibilities that need to be fulfilled.
Guilt has no basis but it can destroy your whole life. If you can live without guilt, you will enjoy every moment without any regret and still fulfill all your responsibilities.
The prob-lem is that your being is a crowd of voices that don't belong to you. It is a totality
of your mother's voice, your father's voice, your teacher's voice, your neighbor's
As long as you flow like a river, you will express extraordinary intelligence in your life.
voice and what not! All these voices are in there. If there is only one voice, you will never have any problem. Your mind will move like a river. But there are so many voices telling you so many things and creating the rocks of guilt in your path.
As long as you flow like a river, you will express extraordinary intelligence in your life. You will live with an energy that is overflowing every minute. The moment you allow guilt in you, the moment you are stopped in your free flow, you create energy clots inside your being.
Lift yourself by your self
Once you become aware of how you are driven by guilt, you can start practicing to come out of it. When you start practicing anything, naturally you will slip a few times. When you practice to be without guilt, you are bound to slip back into the older patterns of greed and fear. Then suddenly you will remember, Oh, I started working out of fear, I started working out of greed.
Then you will start afresh. When you start working, naturally you will see these things happening.
A small story:
A monk from a big spiritual organization
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was sent to a
allow. Nobody can
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help you unless
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service.
Suddenly, the headquarters received a lot of complaint letters about the monk.
The president after reading the letters said, We have posted the right person.
The secretary asked him, What is this Sir? We are getting complaints about him.
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