Generally a humble person is simple in nature. Simplicity is a divine virtue. It glorifies the conscience and humanity. A true person always listens to his/her conscience because conscience never allows you to do wrong things at any moment whereas our mind is fickle and it can not be always true. But the problem is that the people find it difficult to adopt conscience in their decision making because conscience is always straight forward. It always justifies the decision in a positive manner. That is why great people always do work according to their own conscience and conscience can never take any unjustified decision. If we go back to Mahabharat epic war, when Arjun told to Krishna that it was impossible for him to make fight against their own relative Kauravs although Kauravs did injustice to them at that time lord Krishna told Arjun to take decision according to own conscience. Then Arjun took the decision to make fight with the Kauravs as his conscience made him know what to do and what not to do. It is just a small instance. There are so many incidents where people have given importance to conscience and justified their deeds. But generally, people can not believe on conscience as it is too hard. The advantage of adopting conscience is that it makes a person pure in thought and mind. The behavior and attitude of a person becomes more positive.
But, why do people go away from conscience? Why do people commit wrong things again and again? Why does human behavior become so rude and inhuman?
Let’s discuss about it in detail. You might have observed when we want to take a decision we quickly depend on our mind. As the mind is very clever, it gives quick decision to adopt. We do not want to analyse the situation in deep rather we believe our mind solely. The conscience is not wide open. It always resides inside the deep cluster of heart. So to make awakening of conscience one should have cultivated how to do that. Also people find it easy to take a decision through their mind and mind can not be true many times. Also the conscience is so sharp that it never get distracted from its stand. As well as its verdict may be so strong that we are not ready to accept that. All human beings are intelligent than all other creatures but they do not have patience to listen to their true conscience. Hence they commit wrong deeds again and again.
Another point is that as the conscience is straight forward; its actions are also straight forward. People do not want to be straight forward because they fear that it may hamper their living status in the society. But a person who nurture conscience may be not liked by all but as a human being his/her deeds can not be wrong. Now, I am taking the case of myself. I am person who do not want to take part in social functions as I do not like crowds. I want peace in lonely. But I take care and look after any guests who come to our family. Also if anybody is suffering I share the moments with him/her. But I always listen to my conscience. Sometimes when my close relatives invite me to take part in their social functions I refuse them politely. My own family members and other people also told me that I should not refuse their invitation openly. I should say yes and I may not go later. It may hurt them. Yes, it may hurt them when I refuse boldly. I understand that. I understand human emotion, I feel the friendly love. I know refusal make a person sad. But at the other side, my conscience says why do I lie?
As I know it well that I do not feel comfort to attend social function parties, I will never go there. So my conscience says to tell the truth. Definitely it will give pain to my close persons but that pain will not last long. But if I say yes to attend and I will not go deliberately then it will be more painful for them who are very sure that I am going to attend the function. Now tell me which is the right one; to tell the truth for not going or saying yes but deliberately not going to attend. Definitely first one is right because here conscience tell to speak truth whereas in the second case the mind will take its control. So many times people say I should not tell the truth directly but I am always standing in my openness. But I am the same people who try to share the pain of a suffering person because I know by sharing pain, the person can feel that somebody is with him/her in his difficult time. So although to adopt conscience in our decision making may be too cumbersome but it will never make a person to be treated as an inhuman. Conscience is the true virtue and all of us should adopt it in our life.
