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What is Morality? (Contd.)
Money should not be spent for pleasure,
Food should not be eaten for pleasure,
Sex should not be indulged in for pleasure.
This is absolute morality.
Time is the most precious resource we have. Money can be earned again;
time cannot be brought back. So when we waste time, when we squander time
in pleasantry, in tomfoolery, in pleasure-seeking, we are destroying our
existence and that is the highest immorality. So you see, wastage of any
resource is immoral, whether it is our personal life, or whether we buy
a loaf of bread and eat two slices and throw away the rest in the incinerator,
or we chuck money around, or we indulge in other pleasures which are unnecessary
- Morality is conservation. When you don't cut down trees which need not
be cut or should not be cut and you protect life, when you become a vegetarian
not because you love vegetarians or you hate meat, but because you cannot
take life - " I cannot take another life to keep my life alive"
- that is morality.
So please remember that resources must never be wasted. You know, in Denmark,
I was shocked to find there was no cultivation in the fields because they
are paid not to cultivate. Is this morality? A society which pays its
farmers not to cultivate, a society which pays its drunkards and its lazy
louts because they have no employment - what sort of a society are we
living in? It is topsy-turvy, and we call it social benefit and such societies
are wonderful: "In our country, you know, Chari, there is no poverty."
What do you mean there is no poverty? There is absolute poverty of values,
of moral values. Where is morality in such societies where you throw away
food and see another person starving on the streets, and your heart doesn't
open up and say, "Give this half loaf to him or her." "No,
no. They don't work. They don't deserve sympathy."
So you see, it is an all encompassing morality
where no God-given resources should be wasted or squandered
- including the thinking process. I should not sit and think
lazily of this, that, and the other. Therefore we meditate;
we give a direction to our thought that is purposeful, that
is productive, that is evolution-oriented. A man cannot become
a woman, to be in Sahaj Marg. We don't ask Christians to embrace
Hinduism. But you can change your thinking, and through right
thinking, purposeful thinking, change your heart.
Now the principle of perfection also says that
as we become more perfect, we become more perfect in morality,
in utilization, in everything else. The higher we go, the less
we have to use. And this we have seen in our experience with
the Master that the longer the transmission the lower the level
of the work. At the highest level He had to transmit for hardly
a fraction of a second. And at the highest level, there is a
system in existence where the input was absolutely the minimum
and the output is absolutely the maximum. That is at the level
of Divine creation where with one 'kshobh' what began is still
continuing!
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