Dedication to True Speech

Whoever one may be, in whatever condition, if one gives no room for dispiritedness, if one has no fear at all, and if one remembers the Lord with unshaken faith and without any ulterior motive, all suffering and sorrow will fall away. The Lord will never enquire at any time the caste to which you belong or the precepts or traditions that you follow. Devotion doesn't consist in wearing an ochre cloth, organising festivals, performing ritual sacrifices, shaving off the hair, carrying water pot or rod, matting the hair, etc. Instead, the characteristics of devotion are: a pure mind(anthah-karana), uninterrupted (whatever one may be doing) contemplation on God, the feeling that everything is the Lord's creation, and therefore a) non-attachment to sense objects; b) the embracement of all in equal love; and c) dedication to true speech.

How do we not give room for dispiritedness? 

Whoever one may be, in whatever condition, if one gives no room for dispiritedness, if one has no fear at all, and if one remembers the Lord with unshaken faith and without any ulterior motive, all suffering and sorrow will fall away.

If we think, relationship between the body and akasha (heart), we don't even get aware that it is about discrimination, but we do it and repeat it, because we want to fly, we have to get light and that is in the lightness of the cotton fiber (Patanjali sutra). 

On that level cannot be any dispiritedness, we go on doing the sutra, no question about it, we practice. It is not about fear and we don't have the problem with faith, we just do it, if we want to go beyond the mind there have to be all possibilities and without lightness we don't go beyond the mind.

That is why he is telling us that the Lord will never enquire at any time the caste to with we belong, of course not, we just have to get light and that happens also when we breathe in light and keep it in the heart and we breathe out darkness, that is Soham as he also explained Kundalini and as well the flying sutra with Prana, energy, we breathe in light and we keep it in the heart and we breathe out darkness. 

It is the same and therefore, we did it already and we know it. If there is no pure mind and uninterrupted it doesn't go beyond the mind, as he is telling here, no matter what if it is contemplation on God, the feeling that everything is God, it has to go beyond the mind and that is only possible if it is unlimited and that is why they think everything is God, but non-attachment to sense objects is the body level, we have to with a pure mind beyond the body.

The Lord will never enquire at any time the caste to which you belong or the precepts or traditions that you follow. Devotion doesn't consist in wearing an ochre cloth, organising festivals, performing ritual sacrifices, shaving off the hair, carrying water pot or rod, matting the hair, etc. Instead, the characteristics of devotion are: a pure mind (anthah-karana), uninterrupted (whatever one may be doing) contemplation on God, the feeling that everything is the Lord's creation, and therefore a) non-attachment to sense objects; b) the embracement of all in equal love; and c) dedication to true speech.

If we the relationship between body and akasha, lightness of the cotton fiber and additional we can have mediation to purify the mind, to calm down the thought process and to relax and then we have all the sutras and each and every sutra is a quality beyond the body, therefore, if we have all that, we don't have any attachment to sense objects as we cannot compare it to the joy we get with the sutras. 

It is again about threefold truth, a) non-attachment to sense objects, we go beyond the body, b) the embracement of all in equal love, that is the mind level and we have to know how to turn inside or as it was explained shortly, we have to turn the key to the other side. 

It is beyond the level of 'you and I', it is the level of 'we' and He, is just equal love, something that is not on the level of imagination, we cannot see 'we' as all and equal love, there are only differences in the relationships and c) dedication to true speech, that is what we exercise in thinking it over. Most of them don't even know about it. After a study circle the man who is coming in the dreams to awake us is present and it is about Darshan and Swami's presence and it always reflects in the dream after the study circle and after that weekend, what was present it that I neede three days to just feel normal again, instead of inspiring dream, I ate too much sweets to just feel normal again.

Instead, the characteristics of devotion are: a pure mind (anthah-karana), uninterrupted (whatever one may be doing) contemplation on God, the feeling that everything is the Lord's creation, and therefore a) non-attachment to sense objects; b) the embracement of all in equal love; and c) dedication to true speech.

With mediation we get a pure mind, it is transcendental being and non-conceptual it is uninterrupted, in the mind we forget it, doing it regularly, we have to practice, it is again present as uninterrupted, contemplation on God we constantly think over his words, we get more and more a feeling for it, see it in our own life, it is the Lord's creation and therefore, part of it.

We have three things here, threefold truth, first pure mind, uninterrupted contemplation; everything is part of the Lord's creation. 

The second three, threefold truth are, non attachment on the sense-object level (body) is only possible if we replace it with something better, something that is more joyful, we are 'the same – means equal love for all' (mind) we have to turn the key towards eternal unlimited and real values always true, never changing. And the third is dedication to true speech, what is not know at all and not practiced. It means to speak truth, we have to use the words of a self-realized authority, otherwise, we are automatically in the mind and that is not true speech.  

what was at the weekend was that they talked about what they would, should, thought and wanted to do to make it better, what should be done is dedication to true speech, that would change the spiritual level. They just think about it how to improve and at the end they hardly do anything at all, but mostly talk a lot and what Swami is telling us here, we have to be dedicated to true speech, they are totally unaware of it. 

There is not only no dedication to truthful speech, they have never heard of it yet and that is what we find in the lecturers in Prashanti, the dedication to true speech, it means telling truth and not Maya illusion, and they tell it in a way that we can absorb it and identify with it, that is also why it is inspiring.