Morality is not a Solution

India as a culture has no morality at all. We never focused on morals and ethics in this country. If you go to the Western countries, they have a rigid sense of morality. In this country, we have no sense of morality, not just today but always. We always saw morality as a restriction for human consciousness.

We did not want to conduct our lives, our societies, and the world around us with morality. This culture never told you what is right and wrong. It only told you what is appropriate for now. What is appropriate tomorrow may be different. You will see, every embodiment of Divine that you worship – Rama, Krishna, Shiva – you cannot call them morally correct people. They are not. Because it never occurred to them that they have to be that way. But they are the peak of human consciousness.

Morality means you will become repetitive. If you become repetitive, you will go in cycles. If you go in circles, obviously you will not get anywhere. So we took the risk of raising human consciousness. A substantial segment of the population invested itself to raise human consciousness, not to teach morality. It is a riskier path, but ultimately it is the only way to handle humanity.

If you impose morality, people will do things, then they will feel guilty, but they will put some offering in the temple and continue to do the same thing. They are doing it today, isn’t it? There is no “Thou shall not” in this country. No one ever told you what you should do and what you should not do.

We only told you how you should be, which is a more difficult thing to impart. Ten commandments can be written down, but imparting consciousness will not come easy. It takes lots of work, and it would work best only if it is widely imparted, so that it is there in the air. If the parents, neighbors and the atmosphere are like that, the children will grow up with that kind of consciousness.

Then it becomes easy. But now we are reaching a crossroad in this country where we have not done enough work to raise human consciousness. At the same time, we don’t have a shred of morality. We are trying to pick up a few western ethics, which are alien to us, and it does not work because it has not even worked for them.

If you want something indigenous – not indigenous to this nation – indigenous to your being, let us not impose rules of, “Thou shall not” because people will bypass morality the first opportunity they get. Let us make the necessary effort to see that human consciousness operates in a certain way because that is the only insurance and the ultimate insurance that you have.