00:00This sense of Righteousness has always attracted me.
00:03Can we then say Righteousness is Greatness?
00:06We are not talking of being Righteous.
00:09Being Right and being Righteous are different things.
00:12Spirituality is not about obtaining Heaven or pleasing Gods or accumulating Virtue.
00:18Someone might say, but one can have great experience eating some snacks and you still remain unfulfilled.
00:25Our nature is Joy.
00:27If the experience is not rooted in Joy, then life is being wasted.
00:33Frituality wants to feel it.
00:39Namaste Acharya Ji.
00:43The title Truth Without Apology attracts me.
00:46It invokes a sense of strength, a kind of declaration.
00:50Thank you for this.
00:52As I was reading Chapter 138, it stated,
00:56It's far better to crawl on the right path than to fly down the wrong one.
01:06This sense of Righteousness has always attracted me.
01:10Perhaps why, perhaps it is what has distinguished humanity across history.
01:18Can we then say Righteousness is Greatness, but it comes with a price and it keeps getting challenging.
01:30Right path is not the rightiest path.
01:32Righteousness carries a sense of being on the right side of morality.
01:42We are not talking of being Righteousness.
01:44We are not talking of being Righteousness.
01:46Being Right and being Righteousness are different things.
01:50The quote in question here is,
01:56It's far better to crawl on the right path than to fly on the wrong one.
02:04Right and wrong here are neither moral concepts nor righteous percepts.
02:14So, Right and wrong are defined by the one who is the experiencer of those things.
02:26You see, what is it that matters most to us?
02:34Experience, does it not?
02:36Behind all the lofty concepts and this and that, if at this moment you start experiencing a heartache or the head starts spinning,
02:52things will get difficult, won't they?
02:54It is experience that matters.
02:56Right?
02:58So, Right and wrong are in relation to the experiencer.
03:08And when it comes to human beings, the experiencer has a choice.
03:18The choice is to either see that he is a construct of the body and the society or just blindly operate from wherever he is coming and whoever he is.
03:37That choice is available.
03:39That experiencer, you would have guessed it, we are talking of the ego.
03:43That experiencer has a choice.
03:47Right?
03:49The easier choice is, don't look at yourself.
03:52Just take notice of your instincts, your desires and be propelled in some particular direction.
04:06You don't know why, but you have a desire.
04:08So, do we choose our desires?
04:10Once the desire arises, then the intellect chooses a path to fulfil that desire.
04:18But do we choose our desires?
04:20Similarly, do we choose our emotions or thoughts?
04:24We don't.
04:25Thoughts to some degree we may choose.
04:28For example, you may say, I am choosing to open a book and then the book induces certain thoughts.
04:34So, to that extent you can say, but when it comes to emotions, we hardly exercise any choice.
04:42That's a particular way of living.
04:44Being blind to oneself and then moving in the direction of your feelings and thoughts and conditionings and beliefs and so on.
04:53That's one thing.
04:54The other is, before I act to fulfil myself, should I not know who is the one unfulfilled?
05:07Right?
05:08In this context that one is being called as right and the other is being called as wrong.
05:13There is no other criteria.
05:16We are not talking morality here.
05:18We are not talking religious commandments here.
05:21We are talking utility here.
05:23We are talking experience here.
05:26If the experiencer operates from the wrong centre, the centre of blindness, then the experience will not be palatable.
05:40As simple as that.
05:42The experience will be of suffering.
05:48Getting it?
05:51It's as simple as that.
05:53Spirituality is not about obtaining heaven or pleasing gods or accumulating virtue.
05:59It is about taking care of the quality of your experience because that is all that is there to life.
06:06What else is life?
06:08Isn't it a continuous series of experiences?
06:12Right?
06:13So, it's as simple as this.
06:14Somebody asks you, what is the purpose of spirituality?
06:17The purpose is take care of experiences.
06:19Take care of experiences.
06:22Someone might say, but one can have great experience eating some snacks or visiting the new tourist destination.
06:33Fine, you may try that and you have already tried that.
06:37And you still remained unfulfilled.
06:39And what does this lack of fulfilment point towards?
06:44What is lack of fulfilment?
06:46Experience.
06:47What else?
06:48So, though I tried all kinds of diverse and colourful experiences, the reality is that my continuous experience is still that of remaining unfulfilled.
07:04Unfulfilled.
07:05Is it not?
07:06Right?
07:07Spirituality addresses that.
07:08Right?
07:09Spirituality addresses that.
07:10Getting it?
07:11So, the experiencer has to be seen.
07:12Seeing the experiencer is what is being called as right.
07:15Acting blindly is what is being termed as wrong.
07:16Nothing else.
07:17Nothing, nothing beyond that.
07:18No complications here.
07:19Right?
07:20Right?
07:21And when you are operating from the right centre, then even if there is a particular way of operation which has been referred to as crawling, it is alright.
07:35And when you are operating from the wrong centre, even if you seem to be flying, that won't help you because the quality of experience would still not be something you can accept.
08:00Our nature is joy.
08:04If the experience is not rooted in joy, then life is being wasted.
08:09Spirituality wants to prevent that waste from happening.
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