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THE VIRTUE OF TRUTH
be according to any avowed authority and do not accept the Reality that is before us as a matter of Imperience, we cannot make significant progress. We should accept the true facts of reality revealed to us as an absolute. Surely before we arrive at such a Truth our minds should have been purified and the Antahkarana is true to its nature. I do not think it is easy to follow this path unless we are aware that we are connected to the primal store through beloved Master.
It is true that Truth scratches and rubs us in the wrong way. But we have to accept it for what it is, because in the end that is all that matters. Acceptance and embracing truth is the path of reality. It is wiser to say we woo the truth. Once truth is accepted, then we must act decisively by submitting ourselves to it totally. Most mistakes that aspirants make in the path are due to their own notions and ideas of what Reality should be. These notions were arrived at by them after tedious study of subjects of philosophy and religion which they are
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