Follow Your Inner Voice

 

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Follow Your Inner Voice

We live on two levels. One is the periphery: the world of action. The other is the inner being, the world of no-action: the world of existence, not of doing. All that we do is on the periphery and all that we are is at the centre. We have to continuously move from the centre to the periphery to do something. Whenever we are doing something, we are on the periphery.

Whatsoever we are doing, we are on the periphery. When we are not doing anything, then we are at the centre. Witnessing is a non-action. Meditation is non-action. When we sit for meditation, we are on the periphery, we watch our breath, chant mantras, and so on – we are doing something, and then suddenly we get a meditative state, we are not there, we have connected with our innermost core – the centre of our being. This centre is our witness.

Once we know this centre, once we recognise this centre, once we have felt this centre – follow the orders. We will be directed; we have found our master. Now follow whatever is said to us from the centre and don’t listen to the periphery. The periphery is cultivated by others and our centre is untouched, virgin; it is from the divine.

But first, find the witness. Jesus has said, “First seek ye the kingdom of God. Then all else will follow.” Don’t bother about other things. First find out the innermost core of the kingdom of God. Then we need not worry about anything; all else will follow. Just follow the inner voice. We don’t know what the inner voice is, we don’t know what the inner is. Society has confused us deeply. It goes on saying that its own voice is our inner voice. It has placed many voices in us just to control us from within. It is a social need.

Society controls us in two ways. One, by outer arrangements: the policeman on the street, the court, the judge, the law, the government. This is the outer arrangement, but it is not enough. We can deceive the law; we can manipulate the court. And the policeman, of course, is just another human being. So that arrangement is not enough.

No matter what we say is true, the contradictory is also true somewhere; it is not absolute. Now that we have become aware of the whole complexity of the human conscience, we know that our conscience is just a social product. So many societies exist together that the inner policeman has become weak. Make the inner policeman strong through meditation.

The inner voice will direct us. Its directions will be absolutely different from what society says – absolutely different. But for the first time we will become religious, not simply moral. We will be moral in a much deeper sense. Morality will not be a duty; it will not be something imposed upon us. It will not be a burden; it will be spontaneous.

We will be good, naturally good. We will not become thieves – not because society says, “Don’t be a thief,” but because we cannot be. We will not kill because it is impossible. We love life so much now that violence becomes impossible. It is not a moral code; it is an inner direction. We affirm life, we revere life. A deep reverence comes to us, and through that reverence everything follows.