真理不是某种可以用时间或空间或属性(guna)修饰的东西。它必须是始终如一,不受影响和恒常不变的;这才是真理。后来发生的事件或知识都不能证明它是不实的。
无物是绝对真的,确实是真实的。醒时的体验跟梦时的体验一样的不真实。当你酣睡时,完全没有世界。当你达到超意识的第四阶段时,只有“我”留下,那是宇宙的“我”,就连在睡境时也被误以为是有限的和特殊的。
人的主要义务在于研究真理,查出真相。只有透过虔诚和献身,你才能赢得真理,而它们全拜神的恩典之赐;神的恩典倾注于洋溢着爱的心。
真理比原子更为基本。每一个原子及每一颗星星都展现真相给那些有慧眼的人。。。人的特征是什么?如果他跟任何动物一样的活着或死亡,他的万物之灵的身份如何能被判断?他的万物之灵的无上身份在于他认识他真相的能力。
要坚信真理最终会救护你。不论发生什么,都要坚持和遵行真理到底。
只有在不了解真理(真相)时,人才有怀疑。一旦体验到真理,怀疑即消失。真理是‘一’,而真理始终就是真理。凡改变的都不是真理。
为了找到真理,古经典已制定了两条修行准则,一条是外在的,另一条是内在的。外在的是没有心机的业(Nishkama-Karma,本于献身及虔诚而从事的行动或业;基于义务而乐于从事的行动或业,不在乎利益和果报)。内在的是坐禅(Dhyana,静虑于无比的光辉而人仅是此光辉的一点火花而已)。业或行动必须时时受到正义(dharma)的调整梳理,然后它就会引领你超凡入圣而达到梵(Brahman,宇宙的基本真理,包括人自己)。
要说真话但要说得颜和色怡。不要博得他人赞赏而说出迎合他人的话,只因为一句话会得到听者的欢迎;如果说出真话会引起他人的伤感或痛苦,就保持缄默好了。那就是真理在日常生活中的郑重宣告。切勿巧言令色或危言耸听。不悦的真话与愉悦的假话都必须避免。
只有真理的体验能培育爱,因为真理是那么的包罗万象,整合为一,以至于看不到分歧。真理是电流而爱是照明的灯炮。透过真理,你可以体验到爱;透过爱,你可以想象真理,使之浮现心中。
人人之内皆有真理的一点火花;没有那火花,任谁也活不了。人人之内皆有爱的一把火焰;没有那火焰,生命变成一个黑暗的空间。那火花,那火焰是神,因为祂是全部的真理和全部的爱。人寻找真理。他要知道本真,因为他的本质来自神而神是真理。他寻找爱,以便付出和分享爱,因为他的本质是神的而神是爱。
Truth is something that is not modified by time or space or guna (attribute). It must be the same forever, unaffected and unchanged; then alone is it truth. It should not be proved false by some subsequent event or knowledge.
Nothing is absolutely true, really real. The waking experience is as unreal as the dream experience. When you are in deep sleep, there is no world at all. When you attain the superconscious fourth stage, the “I” alone remains, the universal “I” which was mistaken even in the sleeping stage as limited and particular.
The chief duty of man is investigation into truth. Truth can be won only through dedication and devotion, and they are dependent on the grace of God, which is showered on hearts saturated with love.
Truth is more fundamental than the atom. Every atom and every star manifests the truth to those who have the eye of wisdom…What is the special feature of man? If he too lives and dies as any animal, how can his supremacy be justified? His supremacy lies in his capacity to become aware of his truth.
Have faith that truth will save you in the long run. Stick to it regardless of what might befall.
Man has doubt only when he does not know the truth. Once you experience the truth, doubt will vanish. Truth is One, and for all time truth is truth. Whatever changes, know that as untruth.
To discover this truth, the classic texts have laid down two codes of discipline, one external and the other internal – the outer and the inner. The outer is nishkama-karma (activity that is engaged in as dedication and worship; activity that is gladly carried out from a sense of duty regardless of the benefit that may accrue, with no attachment to the fruits thereof). The inner is dhyana (meditation on the splendor of which one is but a spark). Karma or activity has to be regulated by dharma (righteousness), then it will lead one to Brahman (the basic truth of the universe, including Oneself).
Speak the truth, but speak pleasantly. Simply because a statement will be welcome to the hearer, don’t speak it out to win his approval; if speaking truth will cause grief or pain, keep silent. That is the vow of truth in ordinary daily life. Don’t have hypocrisy or crookedness in your speech. Both unpleasant truth and pleasant untruth have to be avoided.
The experience of truth alone can foster love, for truth is so all-embracing and integrating that it sees no distinction. Truth is the current and love is the bulb it has to illumine. Through truth, you can experience love; through love, you can visualize truth.
There is in everyone a spark of truth; no one can live without that spark. There is in everyone a flame of love; life becomes a dark void without it. That spark, that flame is God, for he is the source of all truth and all love. Man seeks truth. He seeks to know the reality because his very nature is derived from God, who is truth. He seeks love, to give it and share it, for his nature is of God and God is love.