In plain words
Boys and girls, embodiments of the divine Ātma!
Satya is the very form of God. Riches and wealth, pleasures and fortune take refuge in Satya. The whole world chooses Satya alone. “There is no Dharma higher than Satya”: the mansion called Dharma rests on the foundations called Satya. So, though every man offers worship of many kinds, Satya itself is the God before his eyes. In any country, in any age, in any people, Satya is what is most needed. Where there is no Satya, there is no life at all. Because man today has forgotten such Satya, upheavals and unrest of many kinds are breaking out in the world. Satya is the mother of all. From that very Satya every human being has come forth.
From Satya all things were created; in Satya all creation merges again; find the place where the glory of Satya is not: this is pure sattva: see, sirs!
Victory chooses Satya and Dharma. Strength of arm, strength of intellect, strength of weapons, strength of arms: that victory takes no account of any of them. All these are physical. All these belong to Prakṛti. All these are impermanent. To make Satya and Dharma, which are eternal and true, grow in this world is man's chief principle.
The inner meanings of Satya
To utter in speech the thoughts that arise in the heart, and to carry out with the hands what was said in speech: that is true humanness. Man is unable to recognise this principle of oneness. They take Satya to mean telling what was seen as it was seen, telling what was thought as it was thought, telling what was experienced as it was experienced... This alone they think is Satya. This is only the truth of everyday dealings, not real Satya. What was seen may change in another minute. What is said now may change into something else in another minute. A man put on the costume of a king in a play. When you see him on the stage, he wears a crown. But by morning he appears like an ordinary man. Is this true, or is that true? What was seen on the stage then: that is true. What was seen at night: that is true. What is seen by day: this is true. This truth does not apply to that truth. So these are passing truths. They are not called real. Satya holds in all three times. Only what does not change in the three times is Satya. Every person must try to recognise this principle of Satya. What is the inner meaning of Satya? There are three letters in it. Sat..i..yam. Sat means life. ‘i’ means food, and yam means the sun. Food is most needed by every human being. What is most needed by every person who has life is food. The one who grants food is the sun. To cook food by means of the sun and to keep living beings alive by that food: that is the duty of humanness. Life and the sun are ones that do not change. These have taken on the form of Satya. When we consider it by another word, three letters are contained in the two letters of ‘Satya’. Sa..ta..ya. When we say the three letters turned round, it is yatasa. ‘Ya’ means that when one practises tapas with yama, niyama and the rest, one can attain ‘sa’, the One whose form is Satya. What are yama, niyama and the rest? You must master the senses. What is tapas? Putting the head below and the legs above and thinking: that is not tapas. Tapas is purity in thought, word and deed.
Freedom from resolves is Śānti itself
We are unable to recognise the many powers that are in humanness. Divinity pervades from every atom up to the greatest mass. Every mass is only a gathering of atoms. Though we have intelligence, though we have learning and wisdom, though we live in humanness, we are unable to grasp such Divinity. Today in the world, in our studies, we look into only what belongs to Prakṛti, only what is outward.