The argument against morality

• Jurmoloya
• 20 September, 2017

By: JurmoloyaRava

WHAT IS RIGHT TODAY WILL NOT ALWAYS BE SO

INDIA as a culture has no morality at all. We never fo­cused on morals and ethics in this country. If you go to 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.

Everywhere else in the world people try to tell you what is right and what is wrong. In this country, in this culture, we never taught right and wrong. We 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 circles. If you go in circles, obviously you will not get an­ywhere. So we took the risk of raising human conscious­ness. A large segment of the population or 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, aren’t they? To­day, largely in the world, reli­gion has become like this. Once you set morals and say: “Don’t do this,” that is what people will do, because that is the nature of your mind.

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 a lot of work and it would work best only if it is widely imparted, so that it is there in the air. If the parents, neighbours and the atmosphere are like that, the children will grow up with that kind of consciousness. Then it becomes easy.

Now we are reaching a crossroads in this country. 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 do not work be­cause they do not even work for them.

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

Ranked amongst the fifty most influential people in India, Sadhguru is a yogi, mystic, vi­sionary and bestselling author. Sadhguru has been conferred the “Padma Vibhushan” by the Government of India in 2017.