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ls workshop) Quest In Reality………87
Angelee Today you have taken full advantage of your holiday. It is almost evening but your discussions with the master are still going on. His daughter has also come from the hostel, let us now go and keep them free.
Sheetal No auntie, let them continue, I will also enjoy it, as I have rare opportunity to listen to papa's talks.
Shantnu Let it be so as you wish, my child, now about your query. The nature of our body is to engage in karmas (action) whose resultant fruits are good and bad, in consonance with our positive/negative tendencies. And contribution to our society is in the form of pleasure or pain. All these differences between positive/negative, good/bad, and pleasure/pain combination are monitored by mind (gross-conscious) who is the ringmaster of the senses. Similarly, the nature of our mind is to acquire and activate latent knowledge (conscious) whose results are either right or wrong, directly corresponding to our mental abilities and their contribution to us or society is in the shape of joy and sorrow. It is the conscience that monitors these differences of right/wrong knowledge/ignorance, joy and sorrow. Likewise the nature of our conscience is tranquility. Moral/immoral are its two aspects and their fruits are virtue and vice.
Student Immoral, evil are also known as sin, in religious vocabulary, is it not so, Dada?
Shantnu There is no such thing as sin. It is the misnomer of 'error'. Anyway about this-later…..
Student Dada, what is moral?
Shantnu That which is right, is moral and vice versa.
Student What is it, Dada that differentiates between right and wrong?
Shantnu It is the sense of conscience...
Student Sorry for interruption Dada, is conscience also a sense?
Shantnu You know, the composition of our mind is - waves and waves of thoughts which is the language (expression) of our emotions. And whatever originates from emotions has its lineage from senses. But it is the last ladder in the sense (material) conscious-mind. Thereafter comes a state, which is devoid of the influences of the sense-oriented-mind; it is the gist of the mind, the culmination of the state of - intelligence and conscience.
Student Is it wisdom, Dada?
Shantnu Yes, now about the contributory factor of our conscience in the field of intellect, or for that matter in Nature because you had also wanted to know about the conscience of Nature - if there is one?
Student Dada, you had also mentioned that it is the role of religion that transforms the connotation of right and wrong into moral and immoral. How is it Dada?
Shantnu Religion today has become a very biased word. It has assumed very limited scope, having confined itself to narrow by-laws. Its very mention connotes dissent, separation, communal riots and segmentation of society. Having lost its original glory, it is the harbinger of trouble today. In its present condition of narrowness, we can not impose upon it the universal representation, therefore cannot be the monitoring factor in determining our moral values, as moral values do not change from society to society or from religion to religion. These represent the synthesis of one religion, one society i.e. humanity. So at present we exclude religion, in its present form, from door purview and aim our quest, only towards Reality.
Student Dada, which implies, not towards God.
Shantnu Don't you dare minion the word God, in my presence again?
Sheeted Why Daddy, you have devoted your whole life in search of God, why do you now, all of a sudden, abhor this word?
Shantnu Please don't misunderstand me, I love God. But I cannot discuss God?
Sheeted Is it so hard and difficult to know about God, Daddy?
Shantnu No, my darling daughter, it is not the reason. The simple reason is, it is so easy to know Him, and people simply don't believe it.
Angelee Then why do you avoid its mention?
Shantnu It is such a revered word, that I don't want its soiling with cheap talks.
Angelee Cheap talks, you mean us...
Shantnu I do not mean anything except, it is not a topic for discussion; which is of self-realization. At proper time, we shall all, try earnestly to know Him and Us. Till then, we are not aware of this word, we have not heard of this word, is that clear to all of you?
Angelee Understood, master. You have made your point very clear and we all abide by your word.
Shantnu Angelee, my dear, don't slight this word. It is not a .word that belongs to me or to you. It belongs to all of us. Rather it is us.
Angelee I am sorry, I did not mean to...
Shantnu Don't mistrust your self. Have full faith in yourself and plunge headlong in its search. Faith is never blind as at its backing is your entire treasure of intelligence and conscience. Only you need to create balance, equanimity, between your opposing variations of tendencies and intellect and you will attain everlasting peace.
Tbc….