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Video Information: Shabdyog Session, 02.08.2015, Advait Bodhsthal, Noida, India
Context:
~ What is truth?
~ What is illusion?
~ What is false?
~ Why Upanishad says "Satyameva Jayate"?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Context:
~ What is truth?
~ What is illusion?
~ What is false?
~ Why Upanishad says "Satyameva Jayate"?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~
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00:00 Question is, why does the Upanishadic seer say Satyamev jayate? Satyamev jayate. Only
00:21 the truth wins or truth alone wins. Ev means alone. He, satya he jeetta hai. So the question
00:37 is why did the Upanishad not say Satyamev jayate? Truth wins or Satyamev jayate? Why
00:47 did he not say it this way? What is the significance of ev? Why must it be said that the truth
01:00 alone wins? It has been said because the Upanishadic seer knew that we are prone to image correlation.
01:15 Understand this. We see two parties fighting and when two parties are fighting, we have
01:28 already labelled them because we carry images. We say one is the side of truth and the other
01:35 side is the side of falseness. One is the side of dharma, the other is the side of evil.
01:50 That we have decided even before the battle. But life is bigger than the labels that we
01:57 give to it. Life is beyond our limited comprehension. It is quite possible that the side that you
02:21 have called as evil would win. Now this will create a great problem for you because you
02:31 had decided in advance that which is the truth party and which is the false party. Now the
02:37 false party has won. What to do? Your shallow faith would stand shaken. You would say no.
02:52 The Upanishads, the very word of truth, they said the truth wins but I am seeing the false
02:59 wins. Hence it is quite significant that it must be said that satyam eva jayate. If it
03:16 is winning, it is the truth. If it is winning, it is the truth. Only the truth wins. So whatever
03:26 is winning is the truth. Please understand this. Now you have nowhere to hide. Now you
03:34 cannot say that the seer was mistaken. The seer is saying doesn't matter who wins, only
03:45 the truth wins. Only the truth wins. Only the truth prevails. It doesn't matter what
03:54 you have thought of as the truth. Your thoughts do not matter. What matters is the fact. Go
04:05 to the fact. See what is really happening. The really happening is the really winning.
04:14 See what is really happening. That which is really happening, really really happening,
04:21 will lead you to the truth. Are you getting it? Equally significant is the question, what
04:38 is meant by jayate? What is meant by winning? Without answering that question, we cannot
04:46 understand the significance of aim. When in our normal parlance, do we call something
05:02 as a victory? We call something as a victory when the challenger has been vanquished. He
05:18 is no more. He has been finished and the victor has sustained. That is the definition of victory
05:30 is that the opposing party has been finished and the winning party has continued and sustained.
05:41 That is what you call as a victory. Am I right? So that which continues, that which sustains
05:50 is the victory. That is the reason why the final test of truth is nityata. It must sustain.
06:08 Challenges will come in between but those challenges will die down. Truth alone will
06:15 prevail and persist and continue. And it will continue even beyond time. Hence we cannot
06:23 even say that it continues. Continuing within time is a small thing. Truth is that which
06:35 continues even after time ceases to continue. That is the definition of nityata. You get
06:44 this. Who is the defeated party? The defeated party is the one who has a definite time span.
06:57 The defeated party is the one who has a definite time span. At the end of that time span, it
07:02 is killed, finished. So it is a defeat. Now you are no more. When a warrior is killed,
07:10 then he is no more and he is called defeated. So that is the definition of defeat. If you
07:18 are somebody who will end, then your very being is a defeat. Or if you are something
07:27 that will exist only as long as existence. Or if you are somebody whose time span is
07:36 only as wide as time itself, then too it is a defeat. Because time too comes to an end.
07:47 Time had a beginning and time will have an end. The truth is that which really really
07:53 sustains, which was there before time, which is there as the basis of time and which will
08:05 be there even after time. That is the definition of truth and that is the definition of victory.
08:13 I alone prevail. That is the definition of truth and victory both. Are you getting? Now
08:23 that which will really prevail, you would have never betted upon it to prevail. You
08:33 always think that other things are permanent. You fall in love with a woman and what do
08:40 you tell her? You tell her that time will never be able to separate us. Or if you are
08:53 a little more realist, then you will say till death do us part. You try to imagine permanence
09:08 in things that are actually not permanent. Which means that you try to think of those
09:16 things as victorious which are actually already defeated. We have said to end, to come to
09:26 a full stop is defeat and to be everlasting, nitya is victory. Man s limitation is that
09:39 he really does not know that which is actually permanent, beyond time and instead he tries
09:52 to attribute permanence to other trivial things. He collects wealth thinking that wealth would
09:58 stay with him. So the saints have to repeatedly remind him that this is not going to go with
10:05 you. We have already taken the example of carnal attraction or kids. You try to assume
10:20 a certain permanence there which is never there. Even your body, many of us are so body
10:33 identified that we have raised scriptures which imagine a scenario in which you are
10:46 walking into the other world in your bodily form. Have you not read stories that after
10:54 death he reaches the gate of heaven and he knocks there. Now obviously if you are knocking,
10:59 then you are knocking with your hands. So what have you been told? That even after death
11:04 your body will sustain. Do you see the conspiracy? After death when he reached Yamraj, Yamraj
11:13 asked him, tell me about your virtues and vices, paap and punya. Now the fellow is talking
11:22 to Yamraj. Obviously if he is speaking, he must be speaking with his. So you are insisting
11:30 that the body is there even after death. You are trying to attribute a permanence to the
11:36 body which body cannot have. Man will always think of falseness as truth, of the limited
11:46 as unlimited, of the ending as everlasting. Hence it is very important that the Upanishadic
12:00 Rishi has wisely said satyam eva jayate. You would never know truth. You only know the
12:20 false and you can even label the false as truth. That s what you keep doing. So when
12:30 the false is defeated, you will receive a mighty shock. You will not say that you were
12:36 mistaken. You were mistaken and you were supporting the wrong party. What will you say? You will
12:45 say, Oh my god, this is probably Kalyug. See the truth has been defeated. Understand this.
12:53 You will witness falseness being defeated but you had labelled falseness as truth. Now
13:08 you will not admit that you had been mistaken. You will not admit that it was falseness that
13:16 you had been supporting and it is but natural that falseness will be defeated. You will
13:21 say this surely must be Kalyug. See the truth is being defeated. What is certain is that
13:28 falseness is truth because I labelled it as truth. Now I have labelled it as truth and
13:33 it is being defeated. So this must be a very chaotic age and I need not have any faith
13:42 in the truth now because the truth has been defeated. The Vishi is telling you, if it
13:50 is being defeated, if it is being defeated, then it is not the truth. In fact, an equally
14:01 useful, actually more useful statement would be, if it is being defeated, it is false.
14:13 The statement has been made here by the Upanishadic seer in a sense of affirmation. He is saying
14:22 truth alone wins. I would like to make a statement via the negativa in a sense of negation, not
14:33 in a sense of affirmation. I would like to say the false alone loses because it is very
14:40 difficult for you to see ultimately who will win and no victory is final. So you might
14:47 be mistaken. But it is very possible for you to see who is being defeated. Defeats you
14:53 are seeing every day, every moment. Hence remember the false alone loses. If something
15:01 is losing, it is false. If something is coming to an end, it is false. Do not be surprised
15:09 when something comes to an end for it is the nature of all things false to come to an end.
15:17 I didn t mean that. Do not try bad arguments. You fall in love with a woman. The relationship
15:37 breaks after some time. What do you say? You say my love was pure but the situations were
15:46 such that it could not survive. Or you say that my love was pure but she was not so committed
15:53 so it could not survive. You do not admit that only the false loses and if your love
16:03 has lost then it was a false love. You never admit that because that hurts the ego. Whatever
16:16 comes to an end, comes to an end only because it is false otherwise it cannot come to an
16:21 end. Whosoever has ever been defeated has been defeated only because he was false otherwise
16:29 he cannot be defeated. Truth alone wins and more importantly the false alone loses. So
16:41 if you are losing it daily then know that you are standing in the false. Are you getting
16:52 it? You may not know the truth and that is alright because as a limited human being you
17:02 cannot lay your claim upon knowing the truth but surely you must know the false. That is
17:11 far easier. You see destruction around you every day, don't you? You see your hopes being
17:21 defeated. You see your dreams being shattered. You see your relationships breaking down.
17:30 Just know that if it is gone, it is gone because it was false. That will bring peace to you.
17:45 Nothing ever goes away for any other reason. It goes away only because it is false. Do
17:52 not complain against existence. What you have lost was anyway false. Why complain now? What
18:07 you have lost was anyway false. And if you have a problem in knowing whether it is false
18:20 or not, just use this test. Is it going to come to an end? And don't leave it to imagination.
18:30 See that it is coming to an end daily every moment because if you just leave it to imagination
18:37 and ask yourself is it going to come to an end in the future, your mind may deceive you.
18:42 Your mind may tell you no, no it is never going to come to an end. It is eternal. Realize
18:49 that it is ending daily, that there is a defeat daily. And when you realize the false as false,
19:01 the truth has already dawned.
19:03 [Music]
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