Question: What is guilt? Does it facilitate, or hinder spiritual growth?
Speaker: We often use the term ‘spiritual growth’. It is alright if it is used loosely, just to indicate something. But it is not alright, if you mean ‘spiritual growth’, as actually the growth of some entity. There is no spiritual growth as such. ‘Spiritual growth’ only means ‘spiritual dissolution’. Nothing grows. All growth is that of the ego. Only the ego grows, accumulates, becomes larger.
Now, what is guilt? Does it add somethingto your mind, or does it take something away from your mind? Is guilt, a taking away of something, or an addition of more thoughts? Does it make you heavy, or it helps you feel light? So is it a growth, or dissolution?
Listeners: Growth.
Speaker: It is a growth.
Guilt is a very un-spiritual growth. It is like accumulation of money, or disease, or contacts, or knowledge. It is not spiritual at all. You see, I have a concept about myself. That is how we live. I have a concept about myself. Now forget about that concept being the truth, that concept is not even a fact. It is just a concept.
