Live the truth to live out your desires

PATANJALI, in his Yoga Sutras, talks about an eightfold path to achieve Yoga, union of the Self and the Divine. Satya is one path. He says live your life truthfully.

Satya is just not truth of the words we utter. That’s only one dimension. Thinking the truth and living the truth are the other two dimensions. Vedanta says that you create what you want; you are the creator of the whole world. It is you, who create suffering and bliss. We may ask: if we are the creator of the world, why would we create suffering? The reason is that either consciously or unconsciously we are not being true to our Being; we are not living, acting, or speaking the truth.

Continuously we create selfcontradicting desires. At a deep level, whether we accept it or not, believe it or not, understand it or not, we are God. Therefore, we create trouble when we contradict ourselves and give power to self-contradicting thoughts.

When you think of wanting to get rid of a disease, when you say to yourselves that you must not have this pain, you are already meditating upon that disease. Instead if you say, let me be healthy, and if you bring the concept of health to your mind and being, the ache and pain will disappear. Self-contradicting thoughts such as trying to get rid of pain by thinking of pain are called samskaras and these get power and become real. These samskaras suck your energy and make you powerless. The word you repeat within yourself should be true. You give power to disease by just saying disease. Being truthful is something more than being factual. First you need to straighten your inner chatter. Try and spend half an hour a day to straighten your thinking, the same way as you spend in straightening your body and dress. Spend time in straightening out your samskaras.

Satya is what gives peace and bliss to all. You cannot speak arrogantly; arrogance creates anger, disturbance, and violence. If you say people are disturbed when you speak the truth, the truth that you express is your ego and arrogance, not the truth.

You can always express truth politely, acceptably without hurting someone; only then is it truth. Pure truth can never be violent, can never hurt someone. It makes your dreams come true.