Truth and Love - The goals · Sathya Sai Speaks 1985

Truth and Love - The goals

5 December 1985, Prasanthi Nilayam

Professor Kasturi's English.

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Another point. When some friends, well-wishers or relatives place a gift-article in our hands, we accept it gladly, though it does not please us, because our acceptance pleases them. When the gift pleases us, our reaction is hearty. We treasure it and are filled with it. Know that God too reacts in the same way to what man offers Him. When the offering is tainted, He may accept it in order to satisfy the longing of the devotee or . But when the offering pleases Him by its purity and sincerity, He welcomes it and His joy translates itself as abundant Grace. So, one has to discover and decide on the offering that gives Him delight and one is blessed thereby with Grace.

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Offer the Flower of to God Let me tell you - the offering must be the Flower of , the Flower of . has two facets: (1) Untouched by the flux of Time, Eternal, Unblemished, as Stable and Pure as Itself (vide the Declaration: "'") (2) in practice, as elaborated in the - , (Speak Truth), that is to say, voicing the seen exactly as seen, the thought exactly as it formed, the deed exactly as done.

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Who was it that laid down the guidelines for this practice of Truth? They were prescribed by the great grandfather of a long series of grand-fathers, the Sage , the ancestral lawgiver after whom 'man' is referred to as - (the child of ). Truth is man's long-treasured heritage. Truth sustains the world and protects mankind. It is at the basis of justice and morality, peace and purity, faith and freedom. It has to be revered and activated by man at all times, under all conditions.

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The advises us to adopt "inoffensive speech, which is truthful, pleasant and beneficial" ( 17- 15). In order to solve many problems that arise when one practises the of Truth, directed man not to speak out unpleasant truth or pleasant falsehood. When it becomes necessary to reveal an unpleasant truth, one has to soften and sweeten its impact by consciously charging it with Love, sympathy, and understanding. "Help ever; hurt never" - that is the maxim. Philosophy means the love for Truth which leads to the understanding and awareness of Truth. Today, it has become a superficial acquaintance, not a constant Vision of Truth, not a discipline to which one is devoted, nor a path along which progress is achieved. The various faculties of Science have also to be collated and co-ordinated, so that the scientific discipline might reveal the Truth. The Truth when known, has also to be used beneficially. Newton lamented that his famous Laws were liable to be used for disastrous ends.

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Vow of Truth should never be broken Instances abound in the history of of sages and rulers who sacrificed their lives in order to fulfill their plighted word. Emperor stuck to Truth in spite of travail and temptation. He refused to deny the word he had spoken, though he had to sell himself and his queen and son as bondslaves and reduce himself to the position of a watchman in a burial ground. too stuck to his promise to accompany during the years of his exile though he had to leave his mother and wife and palace behind. Emperor carried out his promise to though the whom he revered predicted that he would be destroyed, if he stuck to Truth and gifted three foot-lengths of land to . So he won God's Grace, as won it and both gathered immoral renown.

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