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Sat - Truth
What exactly is truth? Your version of the truth and my version of the truth may be vastly different, right? According to yoga philosophy, the truth is bliss. Anything that stands in the way of bliss is not truly the truth! Sounds pretty simple, heh? But what exactly is bliss?
Bliss is an experience when the totality of your being is happy... body, mind, and spirit. This experience is not dependent on the whims or moods of others. It is entirely within your control.
When body and mind are in sync, truth manifests...immediately.
It should be clear that telling the truth to another person has little meaning until we first remove this veil of self-deception. It is ourselves we have deceived, and it is ourselves to whom we must first be true. The question now becomes, how did this self-deception come about, and can we extricate ourselves from the illusions it has created? For if we cannot, then life is indeed a tragedy, certain to continue in suffering and ignorance.
Can we learn to be happy with the way things are yet move toward something greater?
The more open we are, and open to our feelings inside and our relationship with life outside, that truth is always trying to speak to us.
Reflection for the week:
Take time to listen for inner truth as well as contemplating situations in our lives that may be trying to show us a deeper meaning of truth. Especially look for this where we are not experiencing bliss.
How do we speak? From our minds, worries, anxieties, fears, do we speak without contemplating what is coming out of our mouth and how it may effect others around us. Do we speak from our heart and experience what is true to us?
How do we listen? What do we let into our psyche? Can other people’s words take us away from our own truth? Much energy is wasted listening to those thoughts, which are based on mental speculation, self-defense, self-justification, so that it becomes impossible to truly hear what another person says. Do we have the ability to mentally relax and receive? What do we let in and if we do let anything in how does it effect us? Are we open to listen to others or are we too full of our own selves and opinions that we don’t have the capacity to let anything in?
True hearing is our ability to surrender. Therefore speech, as well as mental talking, must be controlled in order to hear clearly. Do we have an insatiable need to hear ourself talk?
Truthfulness is a marvelous tool for keeping ourr energy pure and our will undiluted.
If truthfulness brings more harm than good to a person we may remain silent.
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