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Basic Writings of Sri Ramchandra
Commandment 5
Be truthful. Take miseries as Divine Blessings for your own good and be thankful.
Truthfulness really implies the sense of presenting one’s own self in its true colours. This is the state at which a man exclaims spontaneously, ‘It is as it is’. No words however can express this condition in any way. This is the state which in true sense is the Reality. Even to call it as a state is to blemish its true character. The word state applied to it is not appropriate. This is in fact the point at which all the powers are drawn in and accumulated at the time of Pralaya - Dissolution-and nothing but Absolute Reality remains in existence. The word Reality, as I have used it, does not also convey the true sense, as all feelings and perceptions end there. If we call it as power, even then a material cloak is set round it. It is almost inexplicable. If we use the word Negation for it even then a faint reflection of something remains in view. Now Existence is the only word left for conveying the sense. But if we fix our thought on it, even then the faint idea of something persists and thus the same consciousness of materiality is revived to some extent. If we banish both these views from our thought, even then something remains at the root. Nothing can thus express it except the words, ‘It is as it is.’ It can be imitated upon only by keeping one’s self off from every concept. It depends upon practice so that one may bring
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