12. Truth - Untruth

To adopt a matter; which is accepted by mind, which is self-willed; is not religion of man. The religion of man in real sense is to accept the logically proven words of holy persons as well as holy scriptures and to adopt them in life. It is the only meaning of analysing truth and untruth.

The proper knowledge regarding truth - untruth, duty-intransition, justice-injustice, ethics- immorality, best-worst etc. can be had only when the fickleness of mind ends and steadiness is achieved.

A worshipper should strongly confirm a feeling in mind that, "I shall always follow the truth only; and shall never adopt the path of untruth". Due to such firmness of thought, the person never gets diverted from truth. The person; who -avoids the truth and desires worldly happiness as well as authority with selfish motives, acts willfully though it is sinful, full of injustice and untruthful; then the Sadhana of such person proves to be unsuccessful.

The person, who is harassed by any type of fear, cannot be completely truthful.

Because of the fear of death, a person mostly leaves away the truth, accepts untruth and tries to defend lamely. Even when there is a danger of death - the one, who remains fearless and accepts only the truth is unique and de­serves the grace from God.

The one, who is influenced by respect-insult, profit-loss, like-dislike, favourable-unfavourable, happiness-sorrow, joy-grief etc. cannot be capable to hold truth.

A truthful person will accept death easily with a smiling face, but will never divert from the worship, trust and behest of God.

Keep on preaching knowledge to others and not to put into action- such a state can never be tolerated by a truthful worshipper. He will continually try to include them in his conduct, will never give place to hypocrisy in his life.

An aware person only can practise truth. In other case, an al­lured person practises a lot of untruth ignorantly.

On practicing untruth knowingly, when a person does not accept his defects and makes useless efforts to camouflage those de­fects, moreover delays in elimination of those defects, then the bad impressions of untruth become more and more firm in his mind. This drags him into more bindings.

The truth is not maintained in a person on its own, the person has to maintain it with all efforts. It is the firm faith in God and holy person that provides the stimulating strength to main­tain the truth.

In the system formed by Parmatma , only the truth becomes victorious. "Satyameva Jayate" - only the truth wins. Whereas, in the system formed by human being, untruth and injustice prevail and sometimes it seems to be victorious. But the decision of final victory - defeat is made in the court of God. Here, the meaning of "Victory" in a broad-sense is "achievement of ultimate liberation" and the meaning of "de­feat" is "binding of worldly attachment and of the cycle of birth-death".

To talk more or less regarding some heard or seen event or re­garding some person, to exaggerate or to degrade then what is real, to talk ironically or to make indistinct statements these all are various types of untruth only. The rancour, egoism or untruth make the speech of a person feeble and impotent. There­fore, it is very necessary for a worshipper that he should adopt truth only instead of getting under the influence of untruth.

If a will is produced for some oath or rule or practicing vow or if some promise is given to somebody and it is not fulfilled practically due to lethargy-negligence then it is physical untruth. The practice of such physical untruth decays the physical strength and creates error in synchronisation of mind and body. Due to this, will-power is also broken down. Therefore, the one who wants a truthful conduct should make a firm resolution for practising truth in front of his own deity or saint and should firmly cling in practising the same. Such firm resolution made in front of saint or own’s deity becomes a strong sup­port and provides a protective shell also while prac­tising truth.

An important factor of conduct of truth is also to strongly protest or to unaccept injustice, sin, immorality and untruth. Conduct of injustice, sin and un­truth is a crime similarly, to bow down in front of or to sur­render to untruth and injustice is also a cowardly crime. To fight against untruth and injustice, being brave, is also a conduct of truth.

The authenticity of both: the words of a worldly scientist as well as the words of an enlightened saint can be acceptable. But the degree of truth exists completely in the words of a saint whereas a worldly scientist may take the support of untruth to satisfy some selfish motive or on being partial!

Truth is a form of God only. The person, who is lethargic in the efforts to achieving God, but has faith in truth and lives a truthful life, can definitely achieve God at last.

That, which is given authenticity by God or saint, is the only truth and that, which is not given authenticity is untruth, because that, what we feel is truth, may be untruth in reality and that, what we feel untruth, may be the truth. Therefore, the final decision regarding truth-untruth is with Parmatma because only Parmatma is omnisci­ent and Himself is an absolute truth.