In the beginning, before existence existed the truth. The truth began the Creation. Creation happened on the canvas of the truth. Creation submerged in the truth. In submergence, creation discovered the truth. The truth was pure and it was the truth on which life happened.
Existence is existing on the canvas of the truth. Life exists on the canvas of the truth. Only the truth is inescapable. Only the truth is universal. The universe is happening in that actuality of the truth. The earth moves in that actuality of the truth. Life on the earth is teeming in that actuality of the truth. In fact, truth is actuality.
Manifestation of the truth is love. Love and the truth are one. All else are poor copies and absence of the truth. Love is life. Life cannot exist if it goes out of the truth. A mother looking into the eyes of a newborn baby pours love. New-born understands the truth. The truth travels beyond. The truth is the only communication. That communicates silently.
Truth knows no language barriers. Therefore, love crosses all barriers of communication. A reader reading a book is able to become one with the truth. A little baby who is yet to understand words communicates the truth better than those well-versed in the language.
We are all born in the truth. Our birth is the birth of the truth and we die in the truth. But we try to lend myriad names to the truth. And we are part of that same truth of which we are formed. In fact, we are that truth. Being here in the being-ness of our being we are being that which is the truth. Hindus say the truth is that which has not been created by anybody. That which is not created is the truth. That which is the creator of the whole creation. That which is the truth. That which is the one truth. Nanak calls it Sat Nam (True Name). That Sat Nam is the truth. We are born in that True Name.
One has to become the true name, Sat Nam. You have to be that thy name that is the truth because thy name is the truth. When we come to this world, when we descend on earth, when we come out of the womb of our mother, we see the vast vibrant exuberant world full of colour light and wonder. We meet the vastness of the truth. The truth that is immersed in every speck and particle.
Names that you are lent on the earth are not your names. Thy name is the truth and you are that truth. You are that Sat Nam (true name). You are being in that being-ness that is the truth. You are thy truth.
Why we don’t understand the truth is because there is a distance in knowing. Knowledge creates distance from the truth. We need distance to know. What we can know by knowledge is in fact information. Information is always about something else.
The truth is not the information that you use to hide your ignorance with. Knowledge is that information that you use to hide your ignorance with. That which is the truth lives in you as the truth because you are the truth. And to know the truth that you are no distance is needed. You don’t need to observe the truth to know the truth, but you have to be the truth to know the truth. Therefore the truth does not create any distance.
All that is knowledge is information that creates distance. Information is of the senses. Senses need information. Senses sense information and bring it to the mind to process. When you be the truth you know the truth. All that knowledge that mankind has gathered so far is the house of cards. Knowledge is based on ignorance. Knowledge of science is also based on ignorance of knowledge. What science discovered yesterday is falsified by today’s science. Science itself is discovering the ignorance of science. Senses are evolved to create distance. And knowledge keeps expanding that distance.
The ones who found the truth. The ones who become one with the truth. Those ones who became the truth. Even to attain the truth is not an effort to search for the truth. It is an effortless effort that springs when you become free of effort. You become one with yourself. You become one with the truth because you are the truth. You become the truth because you are the truth. It is a thin veil that needs to be lifted.
If you are the truth and you are manifested as the truth in this life then the question arises what is untruth? In fact absence of the truth is called the untruth. And we keep on moving in the untruth. Whole life we keep oscillating from truth to untruth and from untruth to the truth. This neither lets us stand up nor fall.
That which is the truth is to be known. I am to know the truth when the truth is there. But the truth is there all the time and you don’t know. When will you know the truth? You are the truth yourself. You don’t have to chant Satyamev Jayate. You are the truth. You are to hail your own truth as the Satyamev Jayate. You are the blazing illuminating example of that Satya that you hail.
A beautiful greeting is used by the Sikhs, ‘Sat Sri Akal’, which means let’s hail the truth that is manifested in you and is timeless beyond the time and the ages.
Untruth is the absence of the truth. To live life only the truth is needed. But the truth is a prerequisite. Untruth is fake truth. To pedal fakery, we need to disguise it as the original. Hitler and Gandhi were experimenting with their own versions of untruth faking it as truth.
Understand yourself. What are you doing with your truth? Are you faking the truth that you are born with that you have in your hands now or not?
Listen to the birds singing the songs of truth. The truth is a celebration. Life becomes a celebration when you are one with the truth. Therefore love births out of the truth. Jesus has said ‘Love is God’. If there is love, it will be God. If there is the truth it will be the love. Love does not come from somewhere outside of you. You exist in that godliness of love in your being. You are the glimmering example of love and the truth. The entire existence is in deep celebration of the godliness of love and the truth. And that which is one truth is the basic thread of life that one needs to know.
The author is a spiritual teacher and he can be contacted at arunavalokitta@gmail.com