WORSHIP OF THRUTH

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WORSHIP OF THRUTH

THE substratum of all the great religions of the world is truth and so all

of them exalt truth. Jesus Christ declared before the world, " And ye shall

know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free." Lord Buddha, the perfect

flower of humanity, declared in India, "Happy is he who has found the

Truth... There is no saviour in the world except the Truth." Hinduism

proclaims, " Satyam nasthi parodharmah," There is no religion higher than

truth.

Thus all the great religions are agreed on the indestructibility and the

immanence of truth. An eminent scientist, Ernest Haeckeal, writes : " Every

effort of genuine science makes for a knowledge of Truth." Scientific

thinkers say, "Knowledge of Truth is the ideal of life." They want to know

the ultimate cause, the reality of the source. Thus truth is the common

frontier between religion and science.

Each religion proclaims its own particular values as truth. But these are

only sectarian ideas. Some say that Jesus the Christ "was the only

begotten Son of God and that he came to this world to save mankind. They say

this is the truth and we must believe in it. Similarly others say, " Truth

is Buddha, his life, and teachings are the standard of Truth."

There are many ways of worshipping Eternal Truth. Each religion

prescribes a method of worshipping Truth and asks its votaries to

denounce all other forms of worship. So the followers of the various

religions see perfect Truth in the life and teachings of their prophet or

messenger or avatar and worship such a person as Jehovah, Father in

Heaven, Christ, Buddha, or Krishna, Allah or Brahman. As rivers rising

from different mountains all flow into one ocean, so all forms of worship

rising from different points of view run into one Absolute

Eternal Ocean of Truth,

 

 

 

 

(Adopted from the Book Pearls of Wisdom by His Holiness Swami Kesavaiahji)