Truth

[Ms Tercy Lonan]

You are seekers after truth and lovers of righteousness. They say dharma premi. Dharma is
righteousness. Dharma premi is one who has love for righteousness. The foundation of all
righteousness is truth or truthfulness. Character, integrity, truth all mean the same thing. Again and
again it has been said: “He who destroys dharma is destroyed by dharma.” That means that when
one destroys dharma and becomes unrighteous, his unrighteousness becomes his own undoing. No
external force is necessary to give him his deserts. His unrighteousness itself is enough. He
becomes the creator of his own perdition, his own suffering, which he has called down upon
himself.
But dharma protects him who protects it. One who protects dharma, that being is protected
by dharma. Where there is dharma, there is ultimate success in all things. This dharma is based
upon truth. Truth is the supreme dharma because God is truth. And we are seekers after truth. It is
the entry point to higher life. Truthfulness is the soul of righteousness. The basis of a righteous life,
the basis of character is truthfulness. To be truthful, therefore, is the best foundation for supreme
success in life. To be a worshipper of truth is the one thing needful.
Truth is the greatest sadhana. Truth is the greatest discipline. Truth is the greatest austerity.
Truth is the greatest vow and truth is the greatest of all flowers that pleases the Lord Almighty. If He
is worshipped with the flower of truth, He becomes extremely gracious, propitiated and showers
grace. Truth is, therefore, the great desideratum or the one thing needful—that most desirable of all
things. Therefore, ponder truth, meditate upon truth, reflect upon truth, become a worshipper of
truth. In this lies your highest good.
In this world, in Kali Yuga (the age of darkness), truth is discarded and therefore suffering
comes upon individuals. But one who adheres to truth, practises truth, takes the vow of truth and
performs the austerity of truth gets the power to overcome kali. The dire influence of darkness is
overcome by the light of truth. Truth is the great tapasya of this age. It is a great purifier and uplifter,
a force that helps the sadhaka at every step to overcome all things that stand in his way. Truth is,
therefore, a great benefactor. It is the highest good.
Therefore the wise sadhaka makes truth his life’s companion. It is the entry point to all
higher things. It is the soul of character as well. Therefore, beloved and worshipful Holy Master
made it one of the triple principles that he laid down as being indispensably necessary in order to be
accepted and to enter into his spiritual family of seekers and sadhakas. He said: “Adorned with
truth, O seeker after God, come and I shall make you a member of my spiritual family.” We should,
therefore, reflect upon the supreme value, the greatness and the need of truth in our spiritual and

secular life. For if your secular life is to be ideal and a support to your spiritual life, then it must
harmonise with it by taking into itself truth.
Spirituality is founded upon truth and ethics. A state of divine experience and perfection
emerges out of the seed of a good life, out of a moral and ethical idealism in one’s life. It does not
mean an irrational, illogical or fanatical puritanism. It means a sane and rational ethical idealism, a
goodness that arises out of the appreciation of the auspicious, the beautiful and the holy; a
goodness, a rectitude of conduct and character, a loftiness of behaviour, a nobility of attitude and
approach towards life that comes out of true culture, true education, true understanding.