Truth and Love

20 December 1967, Ernakulam (Kerala)

Professor Kasturi's English.

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THE conference of the Office-Bearers of the Organisations in State has been called in order to assess how far the resolutions made at Conference at the All-India level are put into practice and in order to prepare the Organisations for the World Conference that is to be held in May 1968. I have come amidst you because this is an appropriate occasion when I can give you the joy of . You know that these organisations - , , - are for awakening in man the consciousness of the Divinity inherent in him and to encourage him to cultivate it, so that he could blossom into a real andthen into a (detached, devoted, virtuous, wise, aspirant), and finally into a Liberated Personality merged in the Supreme. You are about a hundred and fifty in number; your President said that the number of Organisations is still small, but I am not enamoured of mere numbers. For, this is not like any other Organisation. This does not seek to establish a new cult or sect, a new type of or , a novel ritual, an initiation that separates people as 'disciples' within the fold and 'noninitiates' without the fold. It seeks to restrain (dullness, ignorance, and all the evils that arise from these) and (passion, violent emotion, desire, egoism and consequent evils); it instills in men the Truth that all are kin in , that the stranger is but oneself in another habiliment, and that service to another is the best service that one can do to oneself. All are limbs of one body, nourished by the self-same life-blood, motivated by the same Will, the Will of God; bound by the same Divine Law. That is the (Cosmic Vision), that one must see and experience: God in all, God everywhere. That endows you with everlasting .

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You have two eyes in your consciousness, namely, and . They are the guides which will take you to the goal, the two lights, the sun and the moon of the inner firmament. If you want to know the way in which you have to observe or Truth in speech, look into the . It tells you that the best speech is "" (speech that does not create pain or anger or grief to others). The also say, "" - "Speak the truth, but speak pleasantly. Simply because a statement will be welcome to the hearer, don't speak it out to win his approval; if speaking truth will cause grief or pain, keep silent." That is the vow of truth in ordinary daily life.

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Don't have hypocrisy or crookedness in your speech. Both unpleasant truth and pleasant untruth have to be avoided. is God Himself, as the says, - "All this is established on the firm foundation of Truth," say the . So, see that no trace of falsehood contaminates your transactions in these organisations. Truth is My nature, My Mission, My Message. Organisations bearing My Name have to be strictly adhering to Truth. (non-injury) is another phase of . When once you are aware of the kinship, the Oneness in God, the fundamental Athmic unity - no one will knowingly cause pain or distress to another. Let your Organisations promote Love, scatter Love, be fragrant with Love, and preach the Gospel of Love, through example.