In plain words
For the ocean of our worldly life, the Name alone is the boat. So Satya is made of sat and yam. Life and the sun are embodiments of Satya. Sat is life. Yam is the sun. The duty of guarding life rests on the sun, called yam. Who is this sun? Is it the sun that rises every day? No. Of this they said in the Veda, ‘Candramā manaso jātaḥ cakṣo sūryo ajāyata’. Our vision itself is the sun. When our vision is sacred, this sunlight too appears sacred. There is no fault at all in creation. The fault lies only in man’s vision. When the vision is right, creation is agreeable. So we must make our vision sacred. Our stomach is filled through this very vision. The sun makes the land green with crops and ripens many harvests. Our life is the charge of food itself. Only when our vision is good does our food become good. When food is sacred, life stands firm and long-lived. So if we are to live long, our food is very important. So now and then I tell the children: Food, head, God. We must recognise the unity of these three well. God - the sun. Head - intelligence. Food - the stomach. The principle that holds all three in balance is the one endowed with humanness. So the word Satya teaches a very special meaning. Satya is changeless. That is why they said, truth is God. Satya is the very form of God. Where did this Satya come from? It came from Brahman, the principle of the vast. Brahman means nothing other than Satya. This very Satya is the form of God. There is no place anywhere without Satya.
From Satya all creation was brought forth; in Satya all creation is dissolved; search as you may, where is the place without the glory of Satya? This is pure sattva: see it, sirs.
Satya is pure sattva. Sāttvic Satya. Not a Satya that is rājasic or tāmasic.