HUMAN VALUES - TRUTH (SATHYA)

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TRUTH (SATHYA)

 

 

 

 

[Extracts compiled from

Bhagavan 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, 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 are 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 Prasanthinilayam.

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.

-Bhagavan Baba