What is Conscience?

Sweet Mother,

The ordinary man is often guided in life by his conscience, isn’t he? So what becomes of one who has no conscience, who has lost it by having disregarded it too often?

What is usually called “conscience” is a mental formation based on the idea of good and evil, a moral entity or rather an element of goodwill which tries to keep the individual on what is commonly known as the straight path.

This element acts as a defence against the hostile forces which can quite easily take possession of one who has disregarded the advice of his conscience.

But all this is a mental approximation of the Truth. It is not the Truth itself.

Ref : Some Answers from The Mother