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14. Truthfulness

  1. 'Truth alone triumphs, not untruth'. Stand upon Truth and you have got God.

  2. Truth is to be judged by truth and by nothing else. Doing good is not the test of truth; the Sun needs no torch by which to see it. Even if truth destroys the whole universe, still it is truth; stand by it.

  3. Our duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest ideal, and strive at the same time to make the idea as near as possible to the truth.

  4. Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die. Societies should be moulded upon truth, and truth has not to adjust itself to society.

  5. By this continuous reflex of good thoughts, good impressions moving over the surface of the mind, the tendency for doing good becomes strong, and as the result we feel able to control the Indriyas (the sense-organs, the nerve centres). Thus alone will character be established, then alone a man gets to truth.

  6. That society is the greatest, where the highest truths are made practical. That is my opinion, and if society is not fit for the highest truths, make it so, and the sooner the better.

  7. The highest creed is Oneness. I am so - and - so is a limited idea, not true of the real "I". I am the universal; stand upon that and ever worship the highest through the highest form, for God is Spirit and should be worshipped in spirit and in truth. Through lower forms of worship, man's material thoughts rise to spiritual worship and the Universal Infinite.

  8. Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality. Deviate an inch from this, and you are gone forever.

  9. You must remember that humanity travels not from error to truth, but from truth to truth; it may be, if you like it better, from lower truth to higher truth, but never from error to truth.

  10. Do not say. "You are bad"; say only, "You are good", but be better!

  11. Do not pity anyone. Look upon all as you equal, cleanse yourself of the primal sin of inequality. We are all equal and must not think, "I am good and you are bad, and I am trying to reclaim you". Equality is the sign of the free.

  12. Truth, purity, and unselfishness-wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor therefor. Equipped with these, one individuals able to face the whole universe in opposition.
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