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TOP =======UNDERSTANDING HINDUISM======== Conscience Conscience is the light of the Soul that burns within the chambers of your heart. It is
the little spark of celestial fire that makes known to you the presence of the Indweller,
the author of the divine laws of truth and holiness. It raises the voice in protest
whenever anything is thought of or done contrary to the interest of its Master. Conscience is the voice of the Self which says ‘yes’ or ‘no’ when
you are involved in a moral struggle. It is a call from within to do an act or to avoid
it. Conscience is the internal monitor. Conscience is a form of truth which is the
knowledge of our own acts and feelings as right or wrong. It is a sensitive balance
(scales) to weigh actions. It is a guiding voice from within, the faculty or principle by
which we distinguish right from wrong. This sense of duty is conscience. Scrupulousness is
conscience. Conscience is a silent teacher. Conscience is a moral faculty. It is a delicate instrument or sense that tells you then
and there what is right and what is wrong. It is the soundless inner voice that shows you
the path of virtue and godliness. It is indeed very, very delicate. It is very easy to
stifle it, but it is so very clear that it is impossible to mistake it. Conscience is above reason and discussion. It is a sudden, dictatory command to plunge
deep into the depths of virtue, or to rise high above the level of vice. The positive
elements that adorn conscience are truth, courage and justice. Conscience is a needle that points steadily to the Pole Star :"Do this action, it
is right." It warns you also: "That is wrong, do not do that." Conscience is a great ledger. All your offences are written and registered in this
ledger. It is a terrible witness. Conscience is the best Minister of Justice. It threatens, promises, rewards and
punishes, keeping all under its control. If conscience stings you once, it is an
admonition; if twice, it a condemnation. To act against the conscience is to act against
reason and Divine Law. When you do a wrong action, the conscience pricks you. It says to you in a clear small
shrill voice, "Do not do this wrong action, my friend. It will bring misery to
you." A wise man at once ceases to act further. Conscience warns you like a teacher or a friend, before it punishes you as a judge. It
tells you to behave in the right manner. Cowardice asks, "Is it safe?" Avarice asks, "Is there any gain in
it?" Vanity asks, "Can I become great?" Lust asks. "Is there pleasure
in it?" But conscience asks, "Is it right?" Conscience prompts you to
choose the right way instead of the wrong, and informs you that you ought to do the right
thing. The first impulse of conscience is apt to be right. If there are pin-pricks and twists
in the conscience, if there is a sense of shame and depression in the heart, know that you
have done a wrong action. If there is exhilaration and cheerfulness, feel that you have
done a virtuous action. Conscience is obscured by human sin and weakness. Conscience becomes blunt through misuse. It is even destroyed through abuse and misuse.
It becomes perverted through wickedness. Uttering falsehood and taking bribes destroy the
conscience altogether. In the world people think of one thing, say another thing, and do a third thing. This
is horrible, and nothing but crookedness. You must carefully watch your thought, speech
and action. The little you gain by telling lies is no gain at all. You pollute your
conscience and infect your subconscious mind. The habit of telling lies will be carried over to your next birth also, and you will
undergo suffering from birth to birth. You have become insincere on account of intoxication, through selfishness and greed.
You do not know exactly what you are doing. You have a clouded understanding. Your
conscience will prick you severely and your heart will bleed when you come to your senses.
Your heart should bleed through repentance. Only then can you purify yourself. The habit of taking bribes is very common. If you ask anybody working in an office,
"What is your salary?" he will say, "Well, my salary is only Rupees 50 but
my income is about Rupees 75." This income is nothing but bribes. People are
ignorant. Even the so-called educated people have no idea of the law of action and
reaction, of impressions of the subconscious mind and their force. If you take bribes, you
will be punished for such wrong actions. The impression of taking bribes will force you to
repeat this habit even in the next birth, and you will become a dishonest man again. Your
thoughts and actions are registered in the subconscious mind. You will carry your
dishonesty from birth to birth and undergo great suffering. Reduce your wants and live honestly within your means. You will have a clean
conscience. You will always be free from anxiety and all kinds of worries. You will have a
peaceful death. I hope you now understand the gravity of this law of action and reaction.
Become a virtuous man and be truthful from the very second you read these lines. Never,
never join those offices which are amenable to corruption and temptation. If you do so you
will also be corrupted. A virtuous man alone can use the instrument of conscience. He alone can hear the inner
voice of the soul clearly. In a wicked man this faculty is dead. The sensitive nature of
his conscience has been destroyed by sin or corruption. Hence he is unable to discriminate
right from wrong. If you do wrong actions and sinful deeds and treat them lightly today, you will not
hesitate to perform serious crimes tomorrow. If you allow one sin to enter and dwell in
your conscience, you certainly pave the way for the entry of a thousand sins. Your
conscience will become blunt and lose its sensitivity. The habit of doing evil deeds will
pervade the whole body like the poison of a scorpion. When an honest man begins to take bribes for the first time, he shudders. His
conscience quivers and trembles, and he feels very uneasy. If he repeats the act several
times, his conscience becomes blunt. He does not feel any uneasiness at all. If a chaste
man begins to visit a house of ill-fame for the first time, his conscience pricks him and
he shudders. If he goes there frequently. It becomes blunt and he feels nothing. The inner
mechanism of consistence is very subtle. Keep it sensitive by doing virtuous deeds only. Always keep the conscience bright and sharp by adhering to truth, righteousness and
virtue. It will be your constant, elevating companion. Virtuous acts, charity, benevolence, nobility, generosity, acts of mercy, and practice
of truthfulness, celibacy and non-injury, sharpen the conscience. Food plays an important role in the development of a pure conscience. Pure food helps a
man to have a clean conscience, whereas animal food makes it impure. It produces a hard
crust on the surface of the conscience and blunts it totally. A man of clear conscience is ever pure, joyful and cheerful. A man of guilty conscience
is morose and cheerless. A man of pure and clean conscience sleeps happily and wakes up happily. He moves about
happily in this world. He attains happiness in this world and in the next. A man of guilty
conscience is restless and unhappy in this world and in the next also. A man with a guilty conscience is dead even while living. A clean conscience discerns evil quickly and shuns it. A good conscience bestows on you
ease, serenity, joy and happiness. It prevents calamities, troubles, afflictions and
miseries. A good conscience is the temple of God, the paradise of bliss. It helps the aspirant to
reach the goal quickly. What good health is to the body, good conscience is to the soul. There is inward
satisfaction of conscience when a good action is done, when virtue is practised, when you
lead a virtuous life. The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. Be beautiful within.
Have a clean conscience, be virtuous in thought, word and deed. Physical beauty fades
ultimately. Conscience of the voice of wisdom speaks in all the Lord’s creations, but the
little, finite, impure human intellect does not comprehend it. Purify your mind, O
arrogant, self-willed man! Tune your mind-radio by cleaning it; hear His voice and become
wise. The voice of the soul will lead you to safety, truth, peace and immortal bliss. From The Mahabharata, Adi Parva Vaisampayana said: Thy heart is a witness to the truth or falsehood. He who being
one thing represents himself as another thing to others, is like a thief and a robber of
his own self. Of what sin is he not capable? Thou thinkest that thou alone hast knowledge
of thy deed. But knowest thou not that the Ancient, Omniscient one (Narayana) liveth in
thy heart? He knoweth all thy sins, and thou sinnest in His presence. He that sins thinks
that none observes him. But he is observed by the gods and by Him also who is in every
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