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TRUTHFULNESS (Commandment 5)
The fifth Commandment commends to, "Be truthful, take miseries as Divine blessings for your own good and be thankful".
When Master asks to "Be Truthful" he is not talking about "Speak truth" which is also one of the ways it was interpreted by great pioneers of the system,-- whether it is Sri Iswar Sahai or Sri Varadachari or many others. But He was not talking just that only. He said 'Be truthful'. What is our true condition? What is our real nature? Our real nature is to be a 'Bandha'-a person bonded to the Divine. Our life is meant for Him to express Himself fully. We are an absolute dependent expression of God.
A question has arisen long back in a system of Vedanta. The question was "Is consciousness precedent to dependence or dependence precedent to consciousness"? Our existence, consciousness: does it precede dependence on God or dependence God precedes consciousness. The Acharyas of that day clarified that the reality is, dependence precedes consciousness. We are entirely dependent upon God whether we are conscious or otherwise. Any existence for that matter is totally dependent upon God. That is the truthful condition. Dependence on God is the beginning. Every one of us was a great "Prapanna" (surrendered) in the beginning. Only over a period of time we turned into 'Bhaktas' (devotees) and finally to 'Shaktas' (able persons). In the beginning we were all 'Prapanna' then we started thinking that our love is more important and became 'Bhaktas' and later we went on showing our greatness of expression, our capacities to create or destroy. This is how we have come to the stage of Shaktas, and in the process drifted away from our Homeland. But the basic point in truthful existence is to be dependent upon the Great Master. To 'Be truthful' means that we should be truthful to our original nature of being dependent on Master.
If we are totally dependent upon Him, it does not matter much what happens to us. There is neither misery nor happiness. So all happiness and misery has to be accepted as something of a Divine gift, because we are dependent upon Him. Revered Ram Chandra does not deny that we are going through our past 'Karma'. He makes it a point to mention it also. Still it is our dependence upon Divinity that makes us accept everything as a Divine gift. If we do not have the relationship of dependency on the Divine that implies that everything happens






























































































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