Question: Sir, can guilt and shame too be paths to realization?
Answer: One who is standing in muck, and must get out of the muck, will need to walk in the muck itself.
All thoughts are fundamentally the same – mental activity. Elation and guilt both are just mind. Whichever mental activity brings it to centre is the right activity.
Understand it using the name of your group – You Belong Here, the Origin (0,0,0)
Consider five minds standing at five different points. Minds are anyway always standing at different points.
(3,-2,0)(0,4,-1)(-1,0,5)(5,-2,3)(-4,-3,-2)
Grace descends, peace beckons. Now all these five different minds want to come to the centre of enlightenment. Origin (0,0,0)
What route will these five different minds take? Same route? The route is called method. The method for each particular mind depends upon the state of the mind, the conditioning of the mind.
