CHAPTER 21 Release Guilt SRI DA AVABHASA: Guilt has no place in the Way of the
Heart. Discipline, however, has a great place in the Way of
the Heart. You have not originally sinned. You are not
priorly guilty. In the circumstance of this life, suffering
this life, you not even knowing what it is and not having
created it, how can guilt be suggested? Responsibility is
suggested! Discipline of Submission to Delight, to
Happiness, to Bliss – that is suggested. I am to be noticed!
Forget guilt and blame and self-consciousness! These are
man-made, I Say. My Heart-Blessing does not merely Answer
you. It Relieves you even of your questions. Through
feeling-Contemplation of Me, you move into a different
place, luxuriate in another Process. This practical discipline should be fulfilled by you to
whatever degree you find the capability in yourself. To
whatever degree you fail or find yourself unable to fulfill
this discipline at any time, simply observe yourself, be
easy, be full of enjoyment, make your actions at least an
indulgence that does not harm others, and continue to turn
to Me and with feeling-devotion, from the heart. The more
you mature in My Company, the more you will fulfill this
discipline. The more you fulfill it, the more you will see
of your turning from the Divine Self-Condition That Is
Incarnate before you. And the more you see of this turning
away, the more responsible you will become for your turning
to Me. * * * As My devotee, you must constantly surrender all concerns
for what you have done in the past, or what negative
tendencies, accumulated from past actions or experiences,
you feel to be lingering within yourself in the present. All
conditions must be observed, but they must be simultaneously
released via devotional and responsive feeling-Contemplation
of Me. The Divine Being, Truth, and Reality is Love, Wherein
everything that is merely true is Outshined by What Is
Truth. Therefore, all beings are tacitly, or in every
moment, forgiven, or Liberated from the past-if only they
will turn (or “repent”) from the tendencies of the past and
enter whole bodily into present and Ecstatic Communion with
Me. * * * Whoever loves in the present is not bound. This is the
Divine Law. Where there is love, there is release of karma,
or the effects of the past. To love is to be “forgiven”, or
released from past un-love and the destiny past un-love
creates through accumulated reactions and the tendencies
established by past experience.
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