Drop Guilt, move into bliss!

Just spend a few minutes writing down all your thoughts, as they arise, without editing.

You will find no logic to your thought process. Thoughts will constantly flit from past to future and future to past. In the past reside your regrets and guilt. In the future lurk your wants and speculations.

Some of the powerful feelings which cause the mind to stress out are of guilt and regrets for past mistakes and failures. We keep thinking of all the opportunities we have missed, and those we may lose in future. We are often consumed by guilt for things we have done or said. Sometimes this goes to such an extent that we even begin to hate ourselves!

What we have to understand is that our realization of past mistakes and failures is part of our own growing up; it is part of our updated wisdom. No one can evolve without making mistakes. The errors that we commit along the path of life are indicators that we are now more aware of ourselves.

Each one of us reflects the essential duality of the cosmos. For every strength that we possess, we also have some corresponding weakness. The basic aim of spiritual progress is to overcome our weaknesses and garner our strengths. So if you have made mistakes, tackle the weakness which caused them, instead of concentrating on the mistakes themselves.

Guilt is totally negative. It is the greatest sin you can commit. Religious and social organizations conspire to breed guilt in us, so that they can control us, not to make us better.

This is why I say that you fully accept your past mistakes and get rid of any feelings of guilt. Regretting the past will only spoil the value of the present. Just learn from it, accept it and move on. Even if you cannot accept it for some reason, just accept that you cannot accept. Once this happens, you will find that a great load has been lifted from your mind. If you accept what you are, what is, the grip of the negative mind will disappear and bliss will rise in you.

If you accept what you are, what is, the mind will lose its roots. Mind and bliss cannot stay together. When mind is, bliss is not. It is either mind or bliss. So drop your mind and simply decide walk the path of ecstasy!

So drop your mind, your guilt and simply walk the path of ecstasy!