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 Commandment - 5
Be truthful. Take miseries as Divine blessings for your own good and be thankful.
This is one of the most difficult commandments especially as we are not able to see the rightness or justness of our sufferings which are of all sorts. For no fault of ours we find ourselves humiliated and hurt and we begin to question whether there is any justice anywhere. The trouble seems to be that in a relative world, what is one man's joy is another man's misery, and the setting of one's rightness above another's seeks to be difficult. There are different criteria about what is just. It appears to be just to punish anyone who had the fortune or rather misfortune of having been born in a higher class or caste and to readjust the order of society so as to make the low class or the poorer class the higher class. The haves have to be made have-nots, and this is said to be restoration of justice. So also we find that with varying difficulties the concept of justice is so thoroughly ambiguous and relative that there is no (one) absolute principle by which one can say that this is just. Even in regard to our health where the restoration of it may be said to be our aim, we have different voices, which have no concept of health as the goal while real health is that which makes one really a thinking and intelligent and wise man, rather than one who some how is protecting the body for the body's sake.
Since this justice of the world's activities and the deserts that one gets seem to be inscrutable men are in despair. The only way to see our way through this maze of despair is to practice truth to oneself and in one's life without caring for the consequences of such life. Thus the practice and habit of truth-speaking, and truth perception will entail the change of attitude to the problems of justice. The reality then begins to appear as it is. Master Shri Ram Chandraji points out that the life of man should be in conformity with the highest state which alone will make us see truth as it is and make us arrive at the knowledge. 'It is as it is'. The Upanishad (Isa) speaks of the soul that sees things as they are in themselves (tathya) eternally or from beginningless time as a kavi, a Paribhuh, as Swayambhuh, poet, all becoming seer and self creative seer. Plato indeed speaks of this truth































































































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