Truth and Its Realization

By Adhyatma-Kavita-Bhaskara* 
H.D. Shri Paramahamsa Omkarananda Saraswati

Truth is the eternal Brahman. Truth is Silence. Truth cannot be expressed. Expression is change. Everything that changes itself is untruth. Besides Truth there is not and cannot be, anything. Truth is existing as one with All. Truth is identification with the immortal Essence. Truth is undecaying. From It all things proceed. In It all things exist. Into It all things re-enter. Truth is the Imperishable Home of all beings. Truth is the ocean of unalloyed Bliss, a small fraction of which sustains the entire universe. Truth is Life and Existence. Untruth is decay and death. Universal Love is Truth. Barriers between one thing and another are untruth. The Real is the Truth of truths. That is what Exists, Triumphs and Rules.

All, right from Brahma down to the blade of grass, are seekers of the One Truth, some consciously, some unconsciously, differing only in degrees of consciousness, the extent of mental purification, of subtlety of condition. Every act of life here is a step taken nearer the Truth, for Truth is the Joyous Abode of all beings. Into It all enter and find complete Satisfaction and Supreme Peace.

The preliminary requisites of a seeker after the Truth are embodied in the Sadhana Chatushtaya which comprises discrimination, dispassion, tranquillity, self-restraint, cessation from earthly business, power of endurance, faith in Truth, concentration of mind and yearning for Liberation. A mastery over these qualities is succeeded by practical meditation. This is done either through service and self-sacrifice (Karma Yoga), devotion and self-surrender (Bhakti Yoga) or discrimination and knowledge (Jnana Yoga). These three roads lead to the common ideal and Goal of all, the all-embracing Unity; call It God, the Truth, the Absolute or whatever you will. Words do not matter. It is feeling that counts; and that is the same.

Robed in the sagely garment of perfect tranquillity, of contentment, of calmness of mind, of the power of endurance, of unflinching faith in the Self, the inner Being of all, of right knowledge of scriptures and profound meditation, ye* shall march to the Supreme Seat of Eternal Glory and Truth-Realization.

Blessed are they, the Truth-seekers, who have emptied their heart and rooted out their ego, the sense of separateness, the force of nescience, and have shattered the self-made limitations and boundaries for, thereby, they shall be filled with the Bliss of Truth!

A merciless withdrawal from the sense of separateness and an affirmation of the idea of Unity constitute the central point of all Sadhana (spiritual practices) in all religions. One who feels that he is one thing and the other is another has turned away from Truth and has opened the gates of self-imprisonment.

Love all. Be one with all! See the One in all! Make no distinction. Off with all meaningless differences. Enough of barriers between man and man, between one thing and another. You are all the waves of the One Ocean of everlasting Life. Hence, you all are One - only One!

Remember this! Practise this! Realise this!

*    "Adhyatma-Kavita-Bhaskara" means, "The Sun of spiritual Poetry". It is a Title, conferred on Paramahamsa Omkarananda Saraswati by Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati.

*    Ye = Plural form of the second-person singular personal pronoun "Thou" (You). It is an archaic word,
used in spiritual and poetic context.