Morality Must Arise From Consciousness!

Paramahamsa Nithyananda

-Staff

By Staff

Friday, April 18, 2008, 12:56

FREEDOM is our true nature. We are totally and completely free from everything that binds us. Please understand this! When we express this freedom we enter the spiritual path. Rules and regulations are only superficial, artificial and imposed by the society. Societal and religious morality binds us. They limit our freedom. They do not lead to spirituality.

People tell me, 'What is this Master? You are breaking all the basic laws. You are pulling down the whole social structure. You are breaking the entire structure, the nuts and bolts, the rules and regulations of society. How will people live without morality? What are you doing?' I tell them: Be very clear. You need forced morality only for kids! You can tell a kid, 'If you keep quiet, and you are good I will give you a candy. Of course, nowadays kids say, 'I am happy as I am. I don't need your candy. I am happy jumping around. Who cares for your candy?' To a kid you can say I will give a candy or I will beat you. You can impose morality based on fear or greed on kids.

We are not kids anymore! It is time to act now! It is time to stand up and be aware of our understanding. Our morality should not be based on fear and greed. As long as our morality is based on fear and greed, we can be certain that it is only skin deep. It is very impermanent!

We can never be moral based on fear and greed. If fear and greed form the basis for our morality, we will definitely try all possible ways to escape from it. For instance, we will speed just ten miles over the local speed limit. We think, 'As soon as I see a cop, I can step on the break and slow down.' As long as our morality is based on fear and greed, we are undoubtedly immature. We are not adults. If we are truly grown up, our morality should be based on understanding and not on injunctions of society or religion.

Be clear! A truly mature adult is a person who lives a happy, blissful, and quiet life without being ruled by fear and greed. When we develop the inner awareness about the way we should live without being told by anyone else, we can operate without fear and greed. When we drop our fear and greed, a new kind of morality arises in our being. It is not the shallow, social morality. This morality arises from our consciousness and provides our whole being with a different kind of well-being. This consciousness brings freedom. Choose it all the time. It leads to eternal bliss, Nithyananda.

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