Sai Darshan News letter - Swamis discourse extract

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Sai Darshan News letter - Swamis discourse extract

Thu, 4 Apr 2002 11:34:14 +0530

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TRUTH (SATHYA)

[Extracts compiled from Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba's Discourses]

Truth is not merely telling the facts about what you see or hear or know. These

are temporal truths. Facts relate to momentary appearances. Truth relates to

unchanging reality. In its full sense Truth can be applied only to what comes

out of your heart in its pure and unsullied form as the voice of conscience. It

is true for all time - past, present and the future. It is not affected by

changes in time or place. Time does not transform it, creation does not

increase it, and Pralaya (Destruction) does not reduce it. History does not

stain it. Truth lives eternally in full. The ancient seers called it "Ritham".

It is unchanging and cannot be suppressed.

When you seek the Truth, you are seeking God. Truth is God. Truth exists; so

too, God exists. Truth must be considered as life giving as breath itself. Just

as a person with no breath in him becomes useless, life without Truth is useless

and becomes a dwelling place of strife and grief. Believe that there is nothing

greater than Truth; nothing more precious, nothing sweeter and nothing more

lasting.

It is folly to think that you have to search for Truth somewhere. To know one's

Self is Truth. How can man realize the Truth? He can do this only when he

experiences non-dualism. As long as he is steeped in dualism (that he and

divine are different) he is bound to be racked by the opposites, joy and

sorrow, the real and unreal.

God wears Truth, the good seek Truth and the bad is rescued by Truth; Truth

liberates; Truth is power; Truth is freedom. It is the lamp that illuminates

the heart and dispels doubt and darkness. The effulgence of God is Truth.

The discovery of Truth is the unique mission of man. Man is a mixture of Maya

(illusion) and Madhava (God); the Maya throws a mist which hides the Madhava,

but through the action of the healthy impulses inherited from acts performed

while in previous bodies or through the cleansing done by austerities in this

body or through the Grace of the Lord Himself, Maya melts away; for it is just

a mist which flees before the Sun. Then Nara (man) is transformed into Narayana

(God) and this Bhuloka is elevated into a Prashanthi Nilayam.

Universe is dependent on Truth. If there is no Truth, there is no Universe.

Truth is of eternal quality. No one can change it. Nor hide it. Truth is God.

All wealth, all riches emerge from truth only. God is the embodiment of Truth.

Truth alone is God's abode. Dharma permanently lives in Truth. Vedas, the

repository of knowledge and wisdom emanate from Truth. Truth alone is the royal

path. Truth is knowledge - Infinity, Brahman. Wherever Truth is followed, there

lives Dharma. There is no Dharma higher than Truth. There is no morality higher

than Truth. Through Truth, you can experience love; through love you can

visualize Truth.

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