Guilt is the root for greed🔗

One deep thing you should understand: guilt is the root for greed! As long as you have guilt, you can never enjoy anything.

One of our devotees came and told me, 'The moment I see ice-cream, I start having cold. I don't even have to eat it. If I see the ice-cream, I catch cold.'

Now, this was a very serious thing. For the last twelve years she had been suffering. I started talking to her to trace the root of the problem. Almost like psychoanalysis, but in a little deeper way.

Slowly I traced that her mother had created a deep guilt in her about the ice-cream when she was a child. The mother didn't want the kid to have more ice-cream, so she created a deep guilt; a deep negative attitude towards ice-cream. The negative attitude created allergic reaction just by seeing the ice-cream.

When I was talking to her, she said, 'Sometimes when I see the ice-cream, I hear my mother's voice saying, 'Don't eat!' Even now I am hearing the voice.'

After talking to her, then finally, I analyzed; finally I came to the conclusion, it is her mother's voice which is creating the disturbance. I gave her a simple technique, just get 5 ice-creams; don't bother about your mother. If you listen to your mother's voice, just be angry on her and eat the ice-cream. Just in a few days, she was not only out of the reaction, she was able to enjoy eating as many ice-creams as she wanted without any problem.