In English
“Do not be false to yourself or to Me”
Of course, it is all a question of deep-rooted taints or traits or attitudes. You draw from the bank only according to what you have put in; you have to study your pass-book before you write out a cheque or calculate your assets. Go on, pile up your assets; do not feverishly exhaust them by recklessness. Unfortunately, people take greater pleasure in liquidating their assets than in building them up. It is the bane of the times that they revel in destruction and recoil from construction. When a committee is engaged in some constructive work, members find the work uninteresting and stay away. If the task set is to pull down someone or another institution, more members are eager to join the fray. So keep your wisdom intact and discriminate between destructive and constructive impulses. Do not listen to de structive criticisms and cynicisms, which are the poisons eating into the vitals of spiritual life today. Bear witness to the truth of your own experience; do not be false to yourself or to Me. My name is ; it means, “He Who reclines on Truth.” I am reminded now of past events, events in my previous body. Even then, I had or truth as my Support. A wrestler challenged Me then for a fight, and he was defeated before a large gathering of villagers. Pained by the insult, he invited for a second tussle the next day, so that he might win back his lost reputation. The man swore that if defeated again, he would wear a long rough (a knee-length one-piece robe) and move about with his head covered in cloth. He dared to swear likewise. was in no mood to enter the arena again, and he was quite prepared to concede the fellow the victory he craved. So he accepted defeat and himself donned the and the kerchief. The wrestler felt great remorse, and his insolence melted away. He appealed to to resume his usual style of dress and released him from the obligation. But stuck to his word. He was Itself, then, as He is now. He wore the new attire.