We read most of the time about billions of Naira of public funds disappearing into thin air; they cannot be accounted for as they have been siphoned from the public till. When occasionally the perpetrators are exposed and their faces are shown on television or splashed in newspapers, there is hardly any display of a sense of remorse.
The sense of shame is given to us human beings as a shield for our soul during our journey through the material world. So also is it during our short stay in the physical world. It begins to make itself felt on earth at about the age of puberty. Being an endowment of our Creator, the feeling of shame has a unique place in our lives.
They want to right wrongs. They have developed a keen sense of right and wrong. As I have mentioned some time in these pages, it is the age students take on authorities in the tertiary institutions, the universities in particular here in our clime, and a girl looks at her mother full in the face and says, “Mom that’s your time, not mine.’ It is a period driven by what is called melancholic temperament. All this is geared towards the redemption of all outstanding karma.
When the sense of shame is utilised as willed by the Creator, so that it protects the pure qualities of the spirit, these noble qualities then rise to the top and, coalescing with the existing pure longing, increases the strength of the yearning a thousand-fold. Now leveraging on the restless urge for action, the increased longing is easily converted to actual beneficial activity.
It is further stated: “You girls and you women, you must first of all remember that you are the bearers in this Creation of the highest tasks, with which God has endowed you! Neither marriage nor motherhood is your highest goal, sacred as they are! You stand alone and firmly for yourselves as soon as you stand aright!
Inwardly, therefore, the feeling of shame, which helps us to maintain purity of thoughts, also constitutes a buffer or rampart for the soul in the so-called spiritual warfare against powers and principalities. To nip evil in the bud through pure thoughts means to confront the adversary outside of the gate of one’s domain.
Therefore, in the deep recesses of the human mind, the hearth of thoughts and volition lies the battlefield for which the feeling of shame can provide a buffer zone for the soul, which, unfortunately, is usually at the receiving end of our indiscretions in the battlefield. So, the feeling of shame is not an old-fashioned sentiment that the modern man could shove aside, because as a gift of the Almighty, a violation of the principle of the feeling of shame, is a violation of His Will.
Feeling Of Shame Spiritual Origin
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