Spirituality in Speech

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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Spirituality in Speech
What is considered the truth? The truth should have four components: It should be beneficial, brief, pleasant and the truth (heet-mitta-priya-satya). First of all it should be true (satya), but at the same time, it should be pleasant to one's ears (priya), it should also be beneficial (heetkari) and brief (mitta). Truth should be pleasant to those who hear it. It is not enough for it to be only pleasant. It has to be beneficial to others and that too, is not enough. It should be brief. Therefore, there are four components. If I said something beneficial and pleasant to you, and keep on talking, you would say, "Now uncle, please stop, let me have lunch.' So it should be brief. This is not a radio that can continue to talk. Therefore combination of the four components makes it the truth, not otherwise. Otherwise speaking only the naked truth makes it untruth.
What should a person's speech be like? It should combine all four of these components otherwise it becomes false. This principle is applicable to all speech used for worldly interactions. However, only the Gnani's speech encompasses all the four components. His speech is always for the benefit of others, never for his. The Gnani has no attachment with his relative self at all.
Truth is where no living being is hurt through the medium of the mind, the speech or the actions. That is the highest truth. This is the highest of all principles. This however, is not the real truth (the Self), but it is the ultimate of all worldly truths.
Questioner : Why does a man tell lies?
away their sins.
Questioner : Why do human beings lie without a reason? What is the cause behind that?
Dadashri : They do it because of their anger, pride, deceit and greed. It is because they want to gain something. They may want respect, money or something else, they may even have a hidden fear, and so they lie. People have a subtle fear deep within of, "What will they say to me?" Then gradually they get into a habit of lying, to the point where they will tell lies even in the absence of fear.
Questioner : Today, in our society, many people lie and steal and despite their dishonesty, they live very comfortably, whereas those who are honest and forthright seem to have many problems in their lives. So, what should one do? Should a person tell a lie for a little peace, or tell the truth and suffer?
Dadashri : It's like this, all these people are experiencing the consequences of their own deeds from their past lives. Those who lied in their past lives are suffering today. The others who told the truth, are also enjoying the fruits of their actions. To tell lies in this life is to face the consequences in the next life. If you tell the truth, it will have its own fruits. In their current lives, people are merely experiencing the fruits of their past actions. Everything that happens is pure justice, nothing but justice.
A man may take an examination and pass which you fail. The person who passed his exam may be wandering around in this life today, but when he took that exam he did everything right. So whatever that comes your way, is a result and the fruit of your actions in your past life. To accept and enjoy the fruits as they are, bitter or sweet is the purusharth, spiritual effort.
Questioner: Why is it that even when some people tell a lie, it is accepted as the truth while others even when telling the truth are accused of lying? What kind of a puzzle is this?
Dadashri : No one has ever lied to me. On the contrary thousands of women have disclosed to me their lifelong secrets. One such woman even wrote to me telling me about her life from the age of twelve till her present age of fifty. She divulged everything in her letter to me. Never before in the history of the world has such an event occurred. Thousands of women have made confessions to me and I have helped them wash