Words from the Master

People who have had a near death experience in some way like a narrow escape from an accident or a cure from cancer or something like that, will be able to live more fearlessly because they will know that they have nothing to lose! They will also live their lives with greater clarity and with more intelligence.

The first lesson that you need to learn from all your education is that, you should do the right thing at the right time and move on. Somehow, this is the last lesson that we learn thoroughly! After having gone through all the other lessons, we learn this lesson!

Procrastination is something that you bring about yourself. But the rest of the fears, society instills in you. Society makes you afraid of your own self, of others and of God. It makes you afraid of yourself with simple things like morality, names and forms, prestige and what not.

In the name of morality, it makes you lose confidence in yourself and that is why you are so unsure of yourself when it comes to morality. When you start following morality out of fear, there will be no chance for your inner intelligence to guide you. When people see me traveling with women, they ask me, “Swamiji, how can you, being a spiritual head, travel with women? Will people not talk about you?”

First of all, they are forgetting that they are talking to an Enlightened Master. If they are completely aware whom they are talking to, they will not even come up with the question. Anyhow, I have to answer them in their language and so I tell them, “I have faith in myself and the women have faith in me, why are you bothered?!”

They are simply shocked when I say this.

In our lives, morality is nothing but a poor substitute for a lack of intelligence. When you act out of your own intelligence, you can be confident of yourself. But when you act out of rules and regulations, you can never be sure of yourself, because you are not yourself to start with! You are not centered in yourself; you are centered on the rules.

If you live out of intelligence, these types of fear will never grip you. People who preach morality are so deeply in fear. That is why they preach about it. They are afraid either because they are unsure of themselves or because they know to be moral only with fear. Moralists can become neurotic with their concept of morality and discipline.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.