Beads of Truth, March 1974 #22

by Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji

Consciousness is born; it's a totality.  And from totality, any creativity is a part of the totality. If you deeply understand that effectiveness of existence, then you also understand what reality is. If you are conscious, as a woman, your beauty cannot be explained in words. If you are conscious as a male, your beauty cannot be explained in words. If you are conscious as a human being, your beauty cannot be explained in words. And if you are conscious that you are a living being, your beauty cannot be explained in words.

I am speaking now of individual expressions. Because in one way you represent a section of your many faceted personality; in another way, you represent a basic reality; in a third way, you  expand yourself to the very life principle of you; and finally, you have total reverence for any life you can relate to. When you have got reverence for life, and life has got reverence for you, what you put in, you get back. In your own consciousness, are you conscious that your basic existence in life is a beauty? And in relationship to all life, when you can relate to it as dearly as you relate to your life, it is a conscious act.

When you have got reverence for life, and life has got reverence for you, what you put in, you get back. 

Some people feel it is okay to kill a mosquito. It's a tiny little thing; it can create malaria; it can make you sick. Sometimes, you feel it is your obligation to do it. But can you create malaria? That little thing of malaria? You cannot even create it with plastic. It's pretty difficult; it's an artist's job. You can’t create a mosquito, but you are ready to kill it.

In terms of the life principle, you both are at the same level. You are mighty. They are tiny. He represents fear to you, fear of your future death. Therefore, you give him death. The same way, there may be a rattlesnake which may bite you twenty times and may not give you a little poison at all. But the moment you feel a snake, what do you want to do with it? Kill it. Somebody said in the Bible---that it is justified that those born of man will crush the head of the snake, so it is a very pious job. But have you ever thought that what makes you kill is not the life in the thing? But it is the fear of death in you? You kill a mosquito because that represents fear of death to you. You kill that snake because that bite represents death to you. Whether the guy has done it, or has not done it, has got nothing to do with it.

You perform a lot of activities out of sheer fear. A lot of actions in human behavior are only the outcome of fear, and the beauty of consciousness is that the fear you put into actions is just what you don't want to happen to you. You don't want to die? Then anything which can kill you must be killed first. Have you understood that human aspect? Every snake on this earth must die. All birds which can be a danger to you must die. All animals, ants, all those situations where you can be put into danger must die. Whatever can take away the supply of your life, which may not have come to you at all yet, there's a possibility that also must die, because you love to live. And with that kind of killing, you actually, practically make your life worthless. Because that kind of fear, and that kind of mental extension of fear through your consciousness makes you totally unconscious of the reason you are living. You put all your energies into killing the possibilities of death. Who's going to enjoy living? And what does living mean to you?

There's a very popular saying: "One day of howling like a lion is better than living like a frightened sheep." Carefree living and living in the beauty of life is a joy within itself. It can only come from the consciousness of reverence for life, as a gift. When you do not project fear into anything, it will never come to you as death. Fear of death attracts death faster. It's a magnet. Fear of being unhappy attracts unhappiness, because the individual circumvent force is fed from inside with the negativity, and it polarizes the negativity from the outside, and it must happen. There is no danger in your existence, but when you subconsciously become conscious, there you will be. The answer is you shall be. Any time you think you will be, the reply is you shall be. And there's no medicine to protect you from that. No advice can work in that case. They call it mental reaction. A person goes into it. Everyone has a little part of it, where you always work with that kind of fear. So much so that all the sadness and all the heartbreaking events, and mostly all the tragedies, an individual attracts by himself.