Even if you suppress your mind,
it will go on subconsciously squeezing you. I am not using traditional words
like sin, but what else is a sin?
Suppress the Truth, try to be cheerful in untruth,
and you will see that you create chronic diseases. Things that are lying in
the subconscious are going to awaken in you and trouble you. Even though you
may put up a cheerful front for the time being, you cannot do it your whole
life. At certain opportune times, untruth is going to come out. And it will
create reactions like fear, negativity, resentfulness, jealousy, insecurity,
and so on. So to get rid of the fear, which is a disease, you have to be very
truthful.
FTEN
WE SACRIFICE TRUTH only because
the forces of falsehood or untruthfulness at that time seem profitable or look
nice. But I am sure, without exception, that without Truth there is no security,
there is no freedom, happiness or peace. Whether it is the Fifteenth Century
or Twenty-First Century, without Truth we should not even hope to have peace,
happiness, joy and freedom! Even love and friendliness cannot be based on other
than Truth. If you can accept this as a principle at least, you can grow in
the right way. That is called initiation into the Way. A Tao, a direction
is there. Without Truth there is no initiation, there is only a blind alley.
In essence, Truth has no alternative, as I see it.
Nothing else can make you bold and courageous.
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I know people can be proud and
arrogant based on untruth, but that is not boldness. If you avoid facing yourself,
facing me, or anyone, you are just delaying. In no case have I have seen that
we can overstate the Truth. Avoid Truth day in day out, month after month, year
after year, your mind will go on playing tricks and games. And all the time you
remain hungry after peace, happiness, love, satisfaction and Oneness.
This leads us to another point: discipline, fearlessness,
courage and awakening are for what? Lately I have been contemplating what is
it that humanity really wants or is missing as a whole. In one sense we can
say they are not worshipping God. But in the immediate sense, what is it that
millions are missing or wanting? Let’s give an example. When you wander and
you get tired, don’t you think of getting back to your home sweet home? But
when you get back home, you are happy and in peace for some days or months,
and then again you find yourself losing peace. That proves that it is not
your true home. The idea behind a home is restfulness, poise and satisfaction.
That restfulness is what we miss. The common sense answer is that there is a
home somewhere within us where the idea exists of restfulness that we would
never lose. But because we do not find that true home within us, we call some
temporary phenomenon our home. We do not get permanent restfulness because there
is no truly restful home other than our own True Self.
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