00:00If you are asked about list of things that are good, you will write down helping others, not stealing, not
00:08getting angry, not hurting others, studying well, respecting elders, so many things you will say oh these are good things
00:14that must be done.
00:15And if you are asked to list horrible things that must not be done, you will write down those as
00:21well. So we already have that moral manual to live by and we think that that will suffice. We feel
00:29that if we know what are the good things to do in life and what are the bad things to
00:33do in life, that will take us through life.
00:35No, this will not take you through life because this kind of road map lacks any heart. There is no
00:45conviction to it. It is just an external thing handed over to you.
00:49Therefore, you find yourself doing things that the manual has proscribed, advised you never to do. We all do those
00:58things, right? We all do those things that we would not want to share with Ma and Papa.
01:02Why does that happen? Because an external instruction, a moral algorithm just has no power because it has no heart.
01:09It gets defeated very easily by temptations, by fear, by circumstances.
01:15So let your do's and don'ts not come from established principles. Let them come from your clear realization.
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