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ls workshop) Quest In Reality………105
Student Dada, how does conscience or a religion transform the fruits of an act, from good and bad to right and wrong, from moral and immoral to virtuous and sinful?
Shantnu These are not transformations but refinements of the quality of fruits.
Student Dada, does an act go through these transformations or its quality of fruits?
Shantnu Both, conscience like (religion) monitors the instrument of action, mind dyes its moral values, and the quality of resultant fruits is identical.
Student Dada, does the mind have a color?
Shantnu Consciousness in its gross form (mind) is subject to change, because of its combination of positive and negative tendencies. When it is overpowered by anger, its color becomes red, a selfish mind's color is brownish, whereas that of an egoistic mind, the color is orange. But a mind that is dedicated to Reality-its color is of pure-white.
Student Dada, what is the color of love?
Shantnu Pink.
Student Dada, it is very strange that consciousness has the quality of color-(change).
Shantnu Consciousness like sound, acquires the qualities of gross-world, when it is in the region of mind and is thus subject to change. Whatever is subject to change is governed by the laws of nature. As nature is full of variety of colors, so whatever happens to be in its orbit, acquires its colors also.
Student Do these colors really exist in our conscious (ness) or these are the emotional variations, our memory cells display in consonance to the state of their richness (activeness).
Shantnu Actually consciousness in its pure-state, has no (quality)color, But due to its proximity to physical worlds, it seemingly (temporarily) acquires their traits. But as soon as, the moss of their traits is removed from it, once again, it resumes its state of purity which is colorless.
Student And it is the conscience that removed that moss, Dada.
Shantnu Yes.
Student Does conscience makes a person better human being with the additional qualities he acquires?
Shantnu It is not enough to being a better man, unless one is endowed with humanness that comes only if one has imbibed the qualities of compassion and love. No amount of scholarship can bring about these qualities; it is conscience alone that inspires those virtues.
Student Dada, are scholars barren of love?
Shantnu Intellect can produce scholars and geniuses but not artists.
Student What do you mean by artists, Dada?
Shantnu Persons who love the work they do.
Student Don't the scholars love their work, Dada?
Shantnu They work like machines, devoid of love.
Student Dada, what is the qualitative difference between the work (action) of an intellect/scholar/genius and an artist?
Shantnu Though both are dedicated to their jobs, an artist's act never produces the fruits of evil, whereas the farmer’s are susceptible to these. There can, always be an evil genius but not an evil art.
Student Why it is so, Dada?
Shantnu Because the acts of an artist are conscientious backed by the application of moral-values, but the brain of .a genius is not bothered by these aberrations.
Student Aberrations, Dada!
Shantnu Yes, for him, these are mere aberrations. In his field of work he is concerned only with relevant data, which furthers his knowledge of the subject at hand, not with illogical intrusions, which are the habitats of the parasites. His scientific mind does not understand such luxuries as-sympathy, kindness, self-sacrifice, compassion and love. What science has to do with these words? He wonders!
Student Are all scholars of the same frame of mind?
Shantnu No, A few are destined to become wise.
Student But, Dada, there have been artists, who indulged in debauchery!
Shantnu No artist has attained perfection, in any science of nature or life, dousing himself in self-indulgence.
Student But, Dada there have been a few exceptions who created works of genius which adorn the walks of prestigious galleries.
Shantnu You, yourself have classified their works as that of geniuses but not the work of the Masters.
Student Some of their works are really classified as masterpiece of art.
Shantnu Name me just one master who mastered any one of the branches of Nature and had duplicated that in totality through the medium of art or science!
Student That way, not even the renowned scientists have completely uncovered (discovered) the mysteries of their chosen fields. We hardly know a fraction of Nature as yet. Dada, similar is the case, in the field of 'reality'. Despite there being a hoard of religions, our moral-standards, human-values, the very basis of our character, have gone to the lowest depths.
Shantnu You see, though scientific advancement is going at a staggering pace, the number of religions standards, too have gone up, but we have lost touch with ourselves. We have replaced moral-values with sensual-values, human-values with machine-culture, character with materialism, conscience with ego, religion with science and Reality with rationality.
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