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Rev. #Chariji: Without character no spirituality Part 2 of 2 [ #Sahaj #Marg #SRCM ]
Ethics and Morality [10th June 2010, Chennai, India.]
What I said this morning covered perhaps one aspect, or two or three aspects, of the subject of character formation. It is of course understood that every human being has the two sides: the good and the bad, the wise and the foolish, the wicked and the not so wicked, and without these two there would be no human life. But human evolution, human development requires that we suppress the bad and develop or enhance the good to the maximum limit possible, especially when we are in a spiritual pursuit like Sahaj Marg where we hope to develop into super humans, and then later on to be able to be divinized to the extent that we permit, by our sadhana and our behaviour, our ethical and moral life. This pursuit becomes vital to our spiritual evolution. Life is nothing more than this.
You harm somebody, you are going to harm yourself. You lie to somebody, you are lying to yourself. You cheat somebody, you are cheating yourself. You cannot equate this to material losses and material gains. It does not mean, like in some religions they say, "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," that if you cheat somebody of a lakh of rupees, he is going to cheat you for a lakh of rupees. It's not like that. But in some way you are going to lose much, much more than you have brought loss upon somebody else — absolutely verifiable fact.
But to verify it you must be aware, you know. You must be willing to take the responsibility of conducting a, shall we say, experiment on yourself. Now here comes the problem — that these things act not over a period of days or weeks or months but over decades sometimes, and over several lifetimes. Had it been God's design that we should pay for our mistakes immediately, we would all have been much wiser. But unfortunately you know, we do something today for which the bhog may be twenty years later, fifty years later or in the next lives — next life or lives, we don't know. This is the greatest problem facing human beings, that we are unable to find proof within our own selves of the results of our thoughts and our actions immediately. Therefore, we enjoy the bliss of ignorance and go on living as we have been living, doing what we think we can do, what we can do whether we should or not, and saying everything will be nice; going to the extreme of saying, "Who knows, yaar, when we are going to live, when we are going to die? Let us enjoy today," enjoyment being what you can enjoy at other people's benefit and personal risk to yourself.
So you see, we don't understand that to harm another person is a sin. And, as Babuji Maharaj said, no man should ever bring harm or hurt to his mother more than anybody else. [In] modern life, this is not a principle that is known, not accepted perhaps and not generally thought of as something pertaining to our spiritual life. But, according to Babuji's philosophy, Sahaj Marg philosophy, the mother is sacred. If you hurt her, if her heart is hurt, beware.
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