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 The Eclipse of Conscience
Lecture delivered at the Shri Ram Chandra Mission Ashram at Hyderabad on 12-12-1967.
I have been, for long, vitally interested in the study as to what is right and what is wrong. I have been following this up with great enthusiasm and conviction and faith.
The earliest stage of this conscience was the science of inward values which was secret in the heart of every human individual, to which he could turn in moments of personal distress or cosmic distress. It was the voice of God because it came with an imperativeness and with a necessity to obey it, at the cost of one's life itself! For the value of the voice of God was paramount over every practical, economic, or karmic conception. So we have that ideal of a conscience.
For a long time in the hearts of men this was there, and the mystics spoke about it with great conviction that was a personal realization, a personal attunement with God; and that voice was heard!
But later on it was found that some people began to speak the language of the conscience, but actually it was the language of their own conceptions. Some people, by cogitating or thinking over-much on an idea, or what they deemed to be right, began to assert that it was the voice of God that was speaking. So in this particular sphere the voice of God became very feeble and was substituted by the ideational hallucinations of individual men, albeit pious and religious. Later on it was found that this belief in the voice of God, as conscience, is sheer nonsense. Many people thought that the voice of God was merely an excuse for perpetrating some evil deeds. That is, they lost the conception that the voice of God would always speak the voice of truth, of chastity, of nonviolence; All those virtues which we honour as the greatest and highest qualities of a spiritual man.
When power came to play its part, and when the religious man felt that power was much more important than virtue, the voice of conscience was




























































































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