Prologue: WHAT IS GUILT?
In our life we are neither taught nor allowed to have the confidence that you have an intelligence in you. Always you are given only guilt.
Only if you live with the guilt, you can be easily exploited. The society which is created based on power and politics, the social systems which is created by shathriyas and vaishyas, means , business people and politicians, naturally will create, naturally will have techniques only to keep people in guilt.
The personality which you are carrying which creates guilt in you, that is a pure lie.
This idea of guilt, idea of confession, all these things are cunning, subtle way to exploit human beings. It's a very cunning, subtle way to keep people under the control.
Guilt is the worst killer of intelligence. Guilt will never let you move in your life.
What is guilt?
Understand anger, guilt is nothing but, you not waiting for the - not having the patience till the transformation in you happens.
You don't trust the transformation is possible in you. You don't have patience for the transformation to happen in you.
There will be a deep sense of guilt in you because it is the same mind which is working. You use strong words when you are in anger and once the anger dies down, the same sharpness which is emitted is turned inwards to create a deep guilt. The height of the anger and the depth of the guilt are equal. If the height increases, the depth increases as well.
The more you remember the negative decisions or your mistakes, the more you create a guilt. One thing you should understand, guilt will again and again attract the same bad instances in our life. Its like pain will attract the pain. Money will attract the money. Joy will attract the joy.
When we measure ourselves as a low person, when we create a deep guilt in ourselves
All your fear, all your greed, all your guilt, all these things are just because your energy taken away by the past memory
How to Overcome Guilt?
Trusting you can have transformation, transformation will happen in you, removes the guilt from you.
The past is dead. Not only it is dead; it is a dead weight on your being. As long as you have guilt, you can never proceed; you can never have deep blissful life. Be very clear, you can never be moral based on guilt. If you are based on guilt, all your morality is skin deep
People ask me, 'Swamiji, what is this? You are pulling down the whole social structure. Then how can we all live morally?' I tell them, clear, it is only for kids that you need a forced morality. For them you need to say, 'Keep quiet, I will give you candy.' Of course, nowadays kids reply, need your candy. Who cares for your candy!' For a child you can say that you will give candy and restrict him. You based on fear or greed. But for you, it is time to grow up. You are not kids anymore. Just stand up with consciousness.