How, then, shall we worship truth? Who knows the truth? The reference here is to relative truth, that which appears to us as truth. Experience will show that truth, even in this limited sense, is very hard indeed to observe.

Why does a person, knowing what is truth, hesitate to utter it? Is he ashamed? Ashamed of whom? Whether high or low, what matters it? The fact is that habit consumes us all. Let us reflect over this and rid ourselves of the bad habit.

Unless we are freed from this habit, we cannot tread the path of truth. Indeed, we must sacrifice all at the altar of truth. We wish to appear not as we are but as very much better. How nice it would be for us, if we are lowly, to appear lowly—but if we wish to rise, to act nobly and think nobly. If that be not possible, then let us appear lowly. Then some day we shall attain the desired height.

The more experience I gather, the more I realize that man himself is the cause of his happiness as well as his misery.

That being so, why is man happy or miserable?

The fact is that man does not like to give any thought to such things; so he persuades himself to believe that he has no time to spare for such reflection.

If we wish to live a true life, we must give up our mental laziness and do some basic thinking. Our life will thereby become very simple.

A seer has called us wayfarers. And it is true. We are here for only a few days. Thereafter we do not die, but only go home. What a beautiful and true thought!

Hundreds of tons of earth and stone have to be excavated by means of hard labour before even one diamond is discovered. Do we give even a fraction of this labour to the removal of the rubble of untruth and the search for the diamond of Truth?

Nothing is ever achieved without toil, that is without tapa.1 How, then, can self-purification be possible without it?