{"id":37308,"date":"2017-02-16T23:38:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T18:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=37308"},"modified":"2017-02-16T23:38:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T18:08:04","slug":"always-speak-truth-takes-us-directly-god-realization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=37308","title":{"rendered":"Always Speak the Truth Because It Takes Us Directly to God-Realization"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mundaka Upanishad boldly proclaims: Satyameva Jayate<\/strong> \u2013 Truth alone Triumphs and not Untruth. This is because only by being truthful with ourselves and with others, can we clear away the scum of the ego-driven imperfections that cloud our mind; and when the mind is thus purified, our soul can see its reflection clearly and realize its True Self, its Infinite Divine Svarupa in Samadhi or Moksha.
\nTherefore the act of speaking the truth always takes us towards Soul-realization, which is the same as God-realization.
\nOn the other hand when we lie to ourselves and to others, then we immediately cloud our mind with egotistical impurities and thus devolve to a lower consciousness by getting enveloped in the darkness of falsehood. For this reason being truthful has always been emphasized by the sages of the Upanishads as the most important spiritual discipline.
\nAnd it was this very same teaching of the Mundaka Upanishad that Sri Ramakrishna underscored for his disciple Rakhal (Swami Brahmananda) in a very interesting incident. At the time this incident took place, Rakhal was still a young disciple under the tutorship of Sri Ramakrishna and had not yet attained to Nirvikalpa Samadhi or complete mergence with God. Hence Sri Ramakrishna was focused on pointing out the imperfections in his disciple\u2019s nature, so that Rakhal could correct them and thus attain to the perfection of God-consciousness.<\/p>\n

Satyameva Jayate<\/em> \u2013 Truth Alone Leads to God \u2013 Sri Ramakrishna Teaches Rakhal<\/h2>\n

\u201cWhen the lamp of truth is lit, darkness vanishes by itself.
\nStand up men and women, dare to believe in the truth, dare to practice the truth!\u201d
\n\u2013 Swami Vivekananda<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One day when Rakhal came to Sri Ramakrishna\u2019s room, Sri Ramakrishna said to him: \u201cRakhal, for some reason, I can\u2019t look at you. I see a veil of ignorance covering your face. Tell me have you done anything wrong?\u201d
\nRakhal was greatly perturbed. He tried hard to remember what he had done wrong but could not recollect anything.
\n\u201cTry to recall\u201d, Sri Ramakrishna said \u201cif you have told any untruth.\u201d Rakhal immediately remembered and admitted that he had recently jokingly told a lie to a friend.
\nSri Ramakrishna forgave him and said: \u201cNever do it again. To speak the truth always is the most important spiritual discipline. The virtue of truthfulness is most critical. If a man always speaks the truth, and tenaciously holds to the truth he will realize God, for God is Truth.\u201d<\/strong>
\n(The above incident is found recorded in the book: <\/em>The Eternal Companion \u2013 Life and Teachings of Swami Brahmananda<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mundaka Upanishad boldly proclaims: Satyameva Jayate \u2013 Truth alone Triumphs and not Untruth. This is because only by being truthful with ourselves and with others, can we clear away the scum of the ego-driven imperfections that cloud our mind; and when the mind is thus purified, our soul can see its reflection clearly and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1988],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}