Spiritual Power of Truth in Ordinary
Life
Karmayogi
When someone calls me on the phone and
another person says I am not at home while I am there, it is a lie. To say I am
there is a FACT that is true, but not TRUTH itself. Behind our small
family is life outside, the government, the society, life and Nature in
succession. All these may be true or false. Behind Nature is God who can only be
true and never false. Philosophically, Truth is the outer expression of
Sachchidanandam, an objective status.
What have ordinary mortals to do
with Sachchidanandam? By espousing Truth do you want MAN to undergo the ordeals
of Harischandra? It is not very inviting. Those ordeals can be avoided if Man
invokes the Spirit, the Psychic Being. For a person in life and bound by
karma, those ordeals are in store. He who invokes the Spirit belongs to a
different class and will not be touched by the tribulations of Harischandra. How
to know that high, philosophical, Spiritual Truth and how to stand by
it?
Nothing is simpler than knowing the True from the false in a work. If
the same truth is there in successive layers of existence with no admixture of
falsehood at any level, it is Truth, pure and simple. One easily knows such
Truth about property, jobs, rights, etc. Such possessions are unassailable; they
need no defence of law, argument, etc. If your work is true, your right is true,
and the benefit the property received from your work is true, NO force on
earth can take it away from you. The property, the job, the right will take
initiative to come to you, to be with you. The truth in them will stir in
favour of the truthful man.
When an attempt was made to take away the
property of a person with unwritten rights to half of it, the whole property
came to him. Another who never had any rights or harboured any such claim, but
gave the TRUTH of service and support to another property, was offered
that property even without claiming it. Truth defends itself; it needs no
defence. Only that any defence the society requires must be given as true
defence, without being mixed with untruth.