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FALSEHOOD AND TRUTH
Falsehood is the great ally of Death.
Once falsehood is
conquered, all difficulties will go. In all human beings is
not falsehood always mixed with Truth? There is one Truth but a
million ways of distorting it in the attempt to express it. Page
― 208 Hypocrisy and pretension
are the homage ignorance pays to the truth. Hypocrisy and pretension
are the first signs of the inconscient’s aspiration
towards consciousness. Simultaneous with the
progress and intensification of the sadhana, there is
increasingly felt the imperative need that all hypocrisy and compromise should
stop. This earth is still
governed by ignorance and falsehood. But the time has come for the
manifestation of Truth.
9 August 1954 May the Truth be
invincible, overwhelming, all-powerful, leaving no room for falsehood anywhere
and for ever. 1956 Such is life! The world is a place of
falsehood and it is only in the silent depths of the Divine that one can find
the peace of truth.
15 December 1964 Truth is stronger than
falsehood. There is an immortal Power that governs the world. Its decisions
always prevail. Join with it and you are sure of the final victory. Page
― 209 Worship Truth. It will cure you of
Falsehood. When men will be
disgusted with the falsehood in which they live, then the world will be ready
for the reign of the Truth.
14 August 1971 Before dying falsehood
rises in full swing. Still people understand
only the lesson of catastrophe. Will it have to come
before they open their eyes to the truth? So I ask an effort from
all so that it has not to be. It is only the Truth
that can save us; truth in words, truth in action, truth in will, truth in
feelings. It is a choice between serving the Truth or being destroyed.
26 November 1972 For those who are eager
to get rid of falsehood here is the way Do not try to please
yourself, do not try either to please others. Try only to please the Lord. Because He alone is the
Truth. Each and every one of us, human beings in our physical body, is a coat
of falsehood put on the Lord and hiding Him. As He alone is true to
Himself, it is on Him that we must concentrate and not on the coats of
falsehood. Page
― 210 There is only one
solution for falsehood: It is to cure in
ourselves all that contradicts in our consciousness the presence of the Divine.
31 December 1972 Let us offer our
falsehood to the Divine so that He may change it to joyous Truth. Truth is eternally
beyond all that we can think or say of it.
10 December 1954 Truth cannot be
formulated in words, but it can be lived provided one is pure and plastic
enough. When the gates of true
knowledge are crossed, no words are left to express what is known. He who has crossed the
gates of the true Knowledge has nothing more to say or to teach. Page
― 211
To come closer to the
Truth, you must often accept not to understand.
25 November 1961 When I am right, no one remembers. When I am wrong, no one
forgets. Because there is no true right and wrong ― the only Truth is the Lord and He remembers everything.
26 January 1963 Each idea (or system of
ideas) is true in its own time and place. But if it tries to be exclusive or to
persist even when its time is over, then it ceases to be true. If any element of this
totality is taken separately and affirmed as the sole truth, however central or
comprehensive it may be, it necessarily becomes a falsehood, for then it denies
all the rest of the total Truth. This is precisely what constitutes
an indisputable dogma, Page―212 and this is why it
is the most dangerous type of falsehood, because each one affirms that it is
the sole and exclusive truth. The absolute, infinite, eternal Truth is
unthinkable for the mind which can only conceive that which is spatial and
temporal, fragmentary and limited. Thus, on the mental plane, the absolute
Truth is divided into innumerable fragmentary and contradictory truths which
strive in their entirety to reproduce the original Truth as best they can ― for each is a truth that attempts to affirm itself as the sole
truth, to the exclusion of all the other truths, which, through their
innumerable totality, express progressively in the becoming the Infinite,
Eternal and Absolute Truth ― that is how they deny the total Truth.
The truth is neither in
separation nor in uniformity. The truth is in unity
manifesting through diversity. Intellectually, the
Truth is the point where all the opposites meet and join to make a unity. Page
― 213 Practically, the Truth
is the surrender of the ego, to make possible the birth and manifestation of
the Divine. Doubt is the best arm
used by the ego to protect itself from extinction. These are remarks on the
way which may lead you a little further. They are sent with blessings.
6 October 1965 Truth is above mind; it
is in silence that one can enter into communication with it. To pray to the Divine
and to surrender oneself entirely and in all sincerity to Him are the essential
preliminary conditions.
24 October 1971 He who sincerely wants
to serve the Truth will know the Truth. In the Ignorance mental
opinions always oppose one another. In the Truth they are
complementary aspects of a higher knowledge. All opinions are an aspect
of the Truth that can be reached only when you can make a comprehensive whole
with all these aspects.
11 January 1967 Page
― 214 Naturally, all these
discussions (or exchanges of opinion) are purely mental and have no value from
the viewpoint of the Truth. Each mind has its way of seeing and understanding
things, and even if you could unite and bring together all these ways of
seeing, you would still be very far from attaining the Truth. It is only when,
in the silence of the mind, you can lift yourself above thought, that you are
ready to know by identity. From the viewpoint of
outer discipline it is indispensable, when you have an opinion and express it,
to remember that it is only an opinion, a way of seeing and feeling, and that
other people’s opinions, and ways of seeing and feeling are as legitimate as
your own, and that instead of opposing them you should total them up and try to find a more comprehensive synthesis. On the whole the
discussions are always pretty futile and seem to me to be a waste of time.
5 June 1967 In all opinions there is
something true and something false. It is indeed a great and useful thing to be
able to listen to the opinions of others without losing one’s temper. To know how to listen:
to be attentive and silent. It is always better to
tell the truth rather than give a pleasant and sweet smile. But what you are
saying is not the truth. It is only an expression of your opinion. To tell the truth is not
to utter whatever crosses your mind. Page
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