In plain words
Are these troubles life? Are miseries life? We cannot bear this cruel hell any longer; we do not want it. No, no. So we must achieve truth. We must walk in Dharma. We must gain Śānti. If we gain these three, our life turns into a full life. So if man wants fullness, he must see that, as far as possible, he does not speak untruth. And if it happens that an untruth has to be spoken! Then, not this truth. Not untruth either. Stay still.
God always helps the practice of truth
A great sage who was truth itself kept striving for truth without a break. He was sitting in a forest doing tapas. To test him, Īśvara came chasing a deer. He was not a hunter; he was Īśvara. He drove a deer so that it passed in front of the eyes of this one doing tapas. This sage saw it. This hunter came. “O sage! I came chasing a deer; did you see it?” To say ‘I did not see it’ is untruth; to say ‘I saw it’ is harm. One should not do harm in order to keep truth. One should not prove truth for the sake of harm. Since these two are like two eyes, he wanted to keep both and to stay true. God alone gives use, help and comparison for everything. He closed his eyes and prayed. ‘Swami! Give me some thought, so that my truth does not fail and no harm comes to that animal, and save me,’ he said. Within a single minute a fine vibration came. He is speaking to that Lord. This sage: ‘What saw does not speak. What speaks did not see.