--- TRUTH
The Divine's Presence is for us an absolute, immutable, invariable fact.
Effort towards the truth should exist in every man of goodwill.
Our life ought to be governed by the Love for Truth and the thirst for Light.
Absolute truthfulness must govern life if one wants to be close to the Divine.
Only those who are perfectly truthful can be my true children.
Let the light of Truth be born upon earth from today and forever.
The Light of Truth broods over theworld to permeate and mould its future.
Everything must be transformed by the knowledge of the Truth.
Take Truth for your force, take Truth for your refuge.
The only important thing is to follow the Divine's truth with love and joy.
The truth is in us, we have only to become aware of it.
Blessed will be the day when the earth, awakened to the Truth, lives only for the Divine.
The Truth is in you-but you must want it, in order to realise it.
The Divine's Will is that the mind should know and He says, "Awake and be conscious of the Truth."
Let the Lord of Truth be always with you.
Let the flower of Truth blossom within you.
Let the Truth be your master and your guide.
Let your consecration to Truth be complete and constant.
Be more eager for truth than for success. ---(Message for the Rayagada Study Circle, Orissa)
The moment approaches when the Truth will govern the world.
Will you work to hasten its coming?
Blessings.
FALSEHOOD AND TRUTH
Once falsehood is conquered, all difficulties will go.
In all human beings is not falsehood always mixed with Truth?
Falsehood is the great ally of Death.
There is one Truth but a million ways of distorting it in the attempt to express it.
Simultaneous with the progress and intensification of the sadhana, there is increasingly felt the imperative need that all hypocrisy and compromise should stop.
May the Truth be invincible, overwhelming, all-powerful, leaving no room for falsehood anywhere and for ever.
Such is life!
The world is a place of falsehood and it is only in the silent depths of the Divine that one can find the peace of truth.
Truth is stronger than falsehood. There is an immortal Power that governs the world. Its decisions always prevail. Join with it and you are sure of the final victory.
Worship Truth.
It will cure you of Falsehood.
When men will be disgusted with the falsehood in which they live, then the world will be ready for the reign of the Truth.
It is only the Truth that can save us; truth in words, truth in action, truth in will, truth in feelings. It is a choice between serving the Truth or being destroyed.
For those who are eager to get rid of falsehood here is the way
Do not try to please yourself, do not try either to please others.
Try only to please the Lord.
Because He alone is the Truth. Each and every one of us, human beings in our physical body, is a coat of falsehood put on the Lord and hiding Him.
As He alone is true to Himself, it is on Him that we must concentrate and not on the coats of falsehood.
There is only one solution for falsehood:
It is to cure in ourselves all that contradicts in our consciousness the presence of the Divine.
Let us offer our falsehood to the Divine so that He may change it to joyous Truth.
TRUTH IS ABOVE MIND
Truth is eternally beyond all that we can think or say of it.
Truth cannot be formulated in words, but it can be lived provided one is pure and plastic enough.
When the gates of true knowledge are crossed, no words are left to express what is known.
He who has crossed the gates of the true Knowledge has nothing more to say or to teach.
To come closer to the Truth, you must often accept not to understand.
Because there is no true right and wrong - the only Truth is the Lord and He remembers everything.
Each idea (or system of ideas) is true in its own time and place.
But if it tries to be exclusive or to persist even when its time is over, then it ceases to be true.
Intellectually, the Truth is the point where all the opposites meet and join to make a unity.
Practically, the Truth is the surrender of the ego, to make possible the birth and manifestation of the Divine.
Doubt is the best arm used by the ego to protect itself from extinction.
These are remarks on the way which may lead you a little further.
They are sent with blessings.
Truth is above mind; it is in silence that one can enter into communication with it.
To pray to the Divine and to surrender oneself entirely and in all sincerity to Him are the essential preliminary conditions.
He who sincerely wants to serve the Truth will know the Truth.
OPINION AND TRUTH
In the Ignorance mental opinions always oppose one another.
In the Truth they are complementary aspects of a higher
knowledge.
All opinions are an aspect of the Truth that can be reached
only when you can make a comprehensive whole with all these
aspects.
Naturally, all these discussions (or exchanges of opinion) are
purely mental and have no value from the viewpoint of the
Truth. Each mind has its way of seeing and understanding things,
and even if you could unite and bring together all these ways
of seeing, you would still be very far from attaining the Truth.
It is only when, in the silence of the mind, you can lift yourself
above thought, that you are ready to know by identity.
From the viewpoint of outer discipline it is indispensable,
when you have an opinion and express it, to remember that
it is only an opinion, a way of seeing and feeling, and that
other people's opinions, and ways of seeing and feeling are as
legitimate as your own, and that instead of opposing them you
should total them up and try to find a more comprehensive
synthesis.
On the whole the discussions are always pretty futile and
seem to me to be a waste of time.
To know how to listen: to be attentive and silent.
It is always better to tell the truth rather than give a pleasant
and sweet smile. But what you are saying is not the truth. It is
only an expression of your opinion.
To tell the truth is not to utter whatever crosses your mind.
HONESTY
Honesty is the best protection.
A peaceful heart is the best reward of honesty.
Be sincere and honest and your mind will be at rest.
SPEAK ALWAYS THE TRUTH
To speak always the truth is the highest title of nobility.
One drop of truth is worth more than an ocean of false information.
Never tell a lie: absolute condition for safety on the path.
Each lie uttered is a step taken towards disintegration.
I have always and will always forbid lies.
If you do not wish to say something which is true, instead of lying just keep silent.
Let nothing be written with this pen except what is perfectly true.
If we allow a falsehood, however small, to express itself through
our mouth or our pen, how can we hope to become perfect messengers
of Truth? A perfect servant of Truth should abstain even
from the slightest inexactitude, exaggeration or deformation.
Silence is far superior to inexactitude.
CONTROL OF SPEECH
It is the control over oneself that is the first thing needed, and
especially the control over one's tongue! If people could learn to
keep silent how many troubles would be avoided!
Be quiet and gather strength and force not only to do work
but also, chiefly, to achieve the Transformation.
If only people did remain a little quiet before speaking, acting or
writing, much trouble could be avoided. So many things are said
uselessly, they bring misunderstandings and bad feelings which
could have been saved with silence.
If were spoken only the words that needed to be spoken, the
world would be a very silent place.
The world is deafened with useless words.
There is a great strength in the power to keep silent.
You must always do what you say, but it is not always wise to
speak about everything you do.
When you speak, you must always speak the truth; but
sometimes it is better not to speak.
When speaking of physical things one should have a lively,
pleasant, witty style.
When speaking of vital things the style should be eloquent.
When speaking of mental things the style should be clear,
precise, exact.
When speaking of psychic things one must be inspired.
Spiritual speech: all-powerful in its simplicity.
It is always a sign of strength to be able to say things gently and
it is always weakness that bursts out into unpleasantnesses.
18 April 1956
Anger has never made anyone say anything but stupidities.
Never boast. By boasting you dissipate your capacity for realisation.
Boasting, boasting-one of the greatest obstacles to progress.
It is a foolishness one must carefully avoid if one aspires to a
true progress.
Medire est une chose tr`es vile. I don't know how to translate
medire into English. It is not exactly "speaking ill". Crooked
mind, crooked tongue, crooked heart: this comes out in speech
that looks like honey but tastes like poison.
Every word spoken uselessly is a dangerous gossiping.
Every malicious word, every slander is a degradation of the
consciousness.
And when this slander is expressed in a vulgar language and
gross terms, then that is equivalent to a suicide-the suicide of
one's soul.
When, in ignorance, one speaks ill of others, he debases his
consciousness and degrades his soul.
A respectful and modest silence is the only attitude befitting
a disciple.
To cure a critical sense that manifests by incontinence of speech:
1) When you are in this state, absolutely refuse to speak--
if need be, make it physically impossible for yourself to speak.
2) Study yourself without pity and realise that you carry in
yourself precisely all the things that you find so ridiculous in
others.
3) Discover in your nature the opposite way of being (benevolence,
humility, goodwill) and insist that it develop to the
detriment of the contrary element.
True strength and protection come from the Divine Presence in
the heart.
If you want to keep this Presence constantly in you, avoid
carefully all vulgarity in speech, behaviour and acts. Do not
mistake liberty for licence and freedom for bad manners. The
thoughts must be pure and the aspiration ardent.
Be careful always to keep the living Presence and Protection
around you when you speak to people and speak as little as
possible.
You are right in keeping quiet in front of those who do not
understand, because the Divine is with you, and that is the only
thing that matters.
With love and blessings.
You need not go to apologize. But as your words were misunderstood
you do right to resolve to be more careful about what
you say.
For writing, evenmore than for speaking, if you aspire to remain
in the best attitude for advancing swiftly towards the Divine,
you should make it a strict rule to speak (and even more to
write) only what is absolutely indispensable. It is a marvellous
discipline if you follow it sincerely.
Neither too many nor too few words-just what is needed.
SPEECH AND PRACTICE
It is not enough to know, you must practise.
It is not enough to pretend, you must be.
On the path of Truth, in order to know more you must put into
practice what you already know.
A little bit of sincere practice is worth much more than a lot
of written or spoken words.
July 1953
A drop of practice is better than an ocean of theories, advices
and good resolutions.
Speak less, act more.
To listen is good, but not sufficient-you must understand.
To understand is better, but still not sufficient-you must
act.
To speakwell is good. To act well is better. Never let your actions
be below your words.
29 July 1970
It is better to state a truth than to disregard it; but it is much
better still to live it than to state it.
One speaks a great deal about this teaching but one does not
follow it.
People who do not live what they think are useless.
It is good to read a Divine Teaching.
It is better to learn it.
The best is to live it.
To live the Supreme Truth, if only for a minute, is worth
more than writing or reading hundreds of books on the methods
or processes by which to find it.
To realise a progressive truth, theory must be moulded according
to the practice and not practice made to suit the theory.
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