“Today we will understand only this Sutra.”

Today we will understand only this Sutra. On Sathya, he has got so many Sutras. means like a ...next Sutras are called Moksha and Brahmacharya, so many other Sutras. It’s like a, I have selected what I feel as important Sutras. Of course, every word from Mahavira is important but we don’t have time to understand everything. So I have selected few Sutras from Mahavira and talking on those Sutras. There are beautiful Sutras. We will see them further. Today we will just see these few Sutras. Being continuously alert, one should renounce Asathya. Understand, being continuously alert means establishing yourself on Sathya, establishing yourself on Sathya, being aware.

One more thing, if you decide just to speak the truth verbally, you may do the mistake of Dharmaraja, Yudhisthira. You may do that mistake. If you are established on Sathya, you will never do that kind of a mistake. See, if you analyse this Dharmaraja’s incident, that itself shows there was a hidden greed for kingdom. That is why he has to compromise. Gandjiji, Mahatma Gandhi says beautifully, “As long as I did not start practising spirituality, my Sathya, my truthfulness was not perfect. I was not able to achieve perfection in my truthfulness till I started practising spirituality.”

See, many people come and tell Me, “Swamiji, I am not a spiritual guy. I don’t believe in spirituality but I live a honest life, moral life. I do good things for others. I will speak truth and live a good life. Is not enough?” I tell them, “No, because what you are saying is a lie. If you do not have a spiritual base, spiritual seeking, you will never be moral”. Be very clear. You may think you are moral. You may think you are living a good life. No, you will not even be able to scan and find out whether you are playing cunning games or not with others unless you are that intense. Here that’s what Mahavir says, “Being constantly alert.”

When Gandhiji says, “Till I started my spiritual practices, I never realised I am not perfect in my practice of Sathya. Only after practising spirituality, after my spiritual sadhanas, I am able to perfect myself in the practice of Sathya also,” practice of Sathya needs continuously being alert. ’Nichcha kala pamathenam.’ It is a beautiful word. Because it is not Sanskrit, I will tell the English translation: Being continuously alert, one should renounce Asathya and speak only truthful, honest words. Understand, not just truthful, honest. Dharmaraja was truthful but not honest. He is truthful but not honest. He said truth but he was not honest. That is why his chariot fell on the ground. He was dropped on the ground.

Truthful, honest words...honesty means you should be established on dharma. You should be established on truth. Anything can be sacrificed but not your bliss, not your bliss, not your joy. If you compromise on honesty, then all other vows are questionable. If you compromise on other vows, the honesty is...you can’t think that he is completely gone but if you compromise on this honesty, you are gone. You can’t be helped. Then you will allow all other possible negativity to happen in you. I always tell people, “To be around Me, the only one thing is necessary.” All our ashramites, I tell them, “Only one thing is necessary. Honest relationship between you and Me. Whatever you feel, if you are able to open up, nothing else is necessary. Master’s energy is such, it will straightaway penetrate you and heal you.”

I always tell people, “If you can go and talk to that God or Goddess moorthi, if you can go and sit in front of Mahavir and completely open up...understand, when I say open up, really feeling and saying, telling him this is what I am, I promise, you will be healed.” Ramakrishna says…. there was a devotee. He used to go to Ramakrishna and he used to live different kind of a life. Wine and women and what not and once Ramakrishna tells him, “Go to Ganga and tell her all your life, whatever you did and just have a honest relationship with Ganga mother, the mother Ganga, river Ganga. You will become enlightened. Everything will be washed away. You will become a mahatma.”

“What is this? Me going and just talking to a river? How he thinks that I will become enlightened? I will become mahatma, all my sins will be washed away?” But Ramakrishna says, “Go and do.” “I went and told everything to Ganga. Suddenly I felt now I am not able to see her anymore if I am not able to correct myself. So whenever I cross Ganga, I started feeling that shy, that guilt. Now I know somebody is watching! And after few days, whenever I started drinking water, Ganga water, I felt the same thing. Somehow, I don’t know how it happened, simply the purity has happened in me. Now I know I can face Ganga honestly.” Understand, if you really open up even with your teddy bear, that’s okay... Even with your teddy bear, nothing wrong but you should have honesty to open up. You should have honesty to open up at least with something. If you open up in front of a milestone or in front of a brick, in front of a stone, anything okay.

In Bharat, all milestones are gods. See, in those days the milestones used to be painted with yellow and red. People have started worshipping it. That is why now they changed the colour! No, really. In Bharat anything you get, they will start worshipping and that is true. See, the culture, which has dedicated itself for worship. Opening up and feeling connected. If you feel connected even with your teddy bear, there is a possibility. At least with somebody you are honest. You are straight. When you feel connected to the great masters like Mahavira, when you sit in front of their moorthis and feel connected and open up and maintain the honesty with them, suddenly you will see they are working on you. Their presence is working on you. Allowing the masters to work on you is the best way for Enlightenment.

Here Mahavir is saying honest, being honest and speaking only the truth and he is again telling, speaking such truth is very difficult indeed. It really needs intense awareness. You need to be alert. You need to be aware. One more thing, unless you raise your very frequency in which you are staying, unless you raise the very Consciousness in which you are staying, you can’t be truthful. You can’t be truthful because if you are living in the same mood, you will forget even many time that you are telling a lie. Only after telling a lie you will realise you are telling a lie because you are habituated to talk, tell lies. Even a simple thing, for no reason, the moment you open your mouth, nothing but lies will come. Just try to record one day whatever you speak. Tell somebody else to record without your awareness and next day sit and edit and tick and see how many lies you told.

You will be shocked there is no word which is truth. There is no word. For no reason. You are habituated. Even small, small things you plan how to present to get maximum out of this situation. You do not tell what exactly happened. No. There is an automatic sensor system inside you. People ask Me. The other day, one professor asked Me, a University professor, “Swamiji, everyday You are talking hours together somewhere or other in the world.” If you see the website, there won’t be a single day gap. Somewhere or other, I am constantly talking and he asked Me, “I don’t see You use any hints.” Here only Sutra is there. No hints actually. Only the Sutra and translation is there.

He told Me, “Swamiji, I have to speak one hour means, I need to prepare three hours. The same subject I am teaching for years but every time I have to prepare three hours and I know for sure You don’t have time to prepare. Everyday You are speaking. How You are speaking, Swamiji?” And he told Me another one thing. “The moment I finish my lecture, two thing happens to me. One, tired. Second thing, repenting that I forgot this point. I should have presented in that way- guilt. Tiredness and guilt is always the result after my lecture.” And not only for him, it is for all speakers, any public speaker. In the end, he will repent, “I should have done this, I should have done that” and he will be tired. Not only the speaker, audience also usually.