STRONG SPIRITUAL POWER

Meaning: As explained in the Atharvaved 4/9/7 — keeping in minds the peculiarity of the world, let us always speak the truth and obtain self confidence.

Message: God has filled the world with innumerable types of peculiarities. Man is continuously engaged in trying to find their secrets by the strength of his intelligence. 'Asto ma sadbamaya' man wishes to remove the veil of the darkness of untruth and endeavors to move forward towards the light of truth.

There is a lot of importance and virtue for truth. There is great strength and power in truth. There is nothing more beneficial than being truthful. The meaning of 'truth' is to know everything as it is, to believe in it and to disclose or proclaim it as it is. The religious books have symbolized truth as austerity and religion. A man cannot remain as man in the absence of truth. Brightness cannot remain on the face of a liar. Everyone distrusts a lair and his reputation gets destroyed, and even friends become enemies. Man must take a vow to speak the truth always but at the same time he must also be careful to se that the truth uttered by him should not be painful to someone, should not hurt someone's heart, and should be beneficent and also pleasant.

'Satyameva jayate naanrutum' i.e. truth always wins, while untruth never wins. This solemn adage is enshrined in our national logo. We should delve deep into our hearts and find out how much we observe this in practice.

By speaking the truth man saves himself from the biggest sins and becomes a real pilgrim on the path of truth. Truth has tremendous power. It has endless virtues. Truth is the highest religion and a ladder to heaven. Truth itself is an austerity and a yog (yog' means to join with or to combine with. Here it means joining with God), and truth is the best yagya. In the great epic Mahabharata it has been said to the extent that 'there is no religion beyond truth and no sin greater than untruth, therefore discard untruth and accept the truth'. Raja Harischandra, Swami Dayananda Saraswati (the founder of the Arya Samaj sect) and Mahatma Gandhi have glorified the human race by their excellent experiments in truth.

Truth by itself is fire. Nobody and not even fire can influence it. By being near the fire one feels the heat and may get brunt but 'saanch ko aanch nahin' - means that a truthful person will not be harmed. The purifying fire of the truth cleans a man's heart free from dirt, and purifies it. The false allegations of a lair have absolutely no effect on a truthful person. One speaks a lie either for selfish interest or with the only intention of finding faults with others. In both the situations ultimately it becomes the cause of his own downfall. A man seeing faults in others and always speaking bitterly is looked down by the society. The conduct itself of such men destroys them.

Only the man of truthful conduct is a man of good conduct. Such a man always goes ahead on the best path and becomes praiseworthy, spiritually powerful and bright. The flag of his fame always flies high in the world. Such a man is always filled with divine light. A man of bad conduct does not have the courage to face him and a man of good conduct is moved with emotion in the cool breeze of his pleasantness.

Only a man replete with strong spiritual power can implement truth in his conduct.