13. Truth Is The Ultimate Freedom

In our daily life, we have several methods to deal with our ego and pressures of the society. One of them is to lie.

We readily lie to our friends and family about many things. We might lie to a friend once, twice, or thrice. All right, we can do it about ten times. But one day, when our friend calls us, we can't repeat the same performance.

Speaking lies, putting on a face for the public has one great drawback. When we speak the truth, if are truthful, we don't need anything. We don't need to convince anyone, we don't need to remember many things, or repeat what we have said.

THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM assures you, from deepest experience and conviction, if we speak the truth there is nothing but freedom. Big freedom, the ultimate freedom. When we speak the truth, we don't have to remember what we have spoken. We can always be fresh, updated, because the data will always be the same.

Otherwise we will have to be continuously finding arguments. But when we find arguments, we do not know the mistakes we make.

Speaking truth will allow us to sleep well. It removes day dreams and night mares. Living in truth takes us beyond day or night dreaming. It helps to anchor our self to living in the present moment.

We think we also live in the present moment. From our experience, we are speaking about it from another point of view. What THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM says is to not to connect with events of the past, or build on hopes, dreams, and future. Just live in the moment. Treat each moment as new, as fresh, as a gift, as precious, and as a miracle.

THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM speaks of the same concept, being in the present, with different, different connotations. Different, it is very different, from our imagination. It has different titles and different, different meanings.

Ramana Maharishi used to say: A hungry dog gnawing at a bone starts bleeding in mouth. It then starts enjoying the taste of its own blood thinking that it comes from the bone. That is how humans react to desires.

Just like that dog gnawing at a bone, we start thinking that the pleasure has come from the outer comforts or outer objects. Give up that one feeling. Stop making that connection. We will be on the path to self-discovery.

Don't resist. Be truthful, live in the present. There is no other formula for bliss, Nithyanandam.