Sat-Sang 4
There are two primary principles within human consciousness: that of freedom and order. This is itself a truth that can be cognised. A human being has the conscious faculty to experience freedom. Freedom of thought, speech and action. Freedom to choose. But without order such freedom can become chaotic. Therefore, the capacity to create order is necessary as a discipline. And yet order cannot be forced or coerced and still be called truth. Thus freedom and order (and discipline) are as two wings of a bird. Both are necessary and both need to operate in unison with each other.
Truth itself is nuanced in its external manifestations. It is not black and white.
Truth also has a moral quality. It is a moral quality that adheres the universe together in a Holex, an integrated whole, rather than a chaos. It is a moral quality that holds any natural system together; for example the energy humans refer to as gravity is actually a spiritual moral living energy field. Thus both freedom and order are sacred qualities. The balance between freedom and order requires honest discernment. Honesty is the key. Truth is not a static phenomena. It is a living moral quality that is relative and contextual in its manifestations. And it is honesty and discernment that mediates between freedom and order in the shifting landscape of daily human life. Being truthful implies honesty as the moral rudder of the life-boat.
Honesty is a moral force. Sat-Sang in its pure expression is the honest, moral sharing of truths that cannot help to be recognised as universally valid. They are self-evident.
Truth is a controversial word. What truth? Who’s truth? At this time of powerful oppositional viewpoints, truth easily becomes confused with opinion or hypothesis or belief. At the personal level truth can easily be no more than individual bias. But bias is not objective truth. Objective truth can only be defined as self-evidently true for everyone. To disagree with a self-evident objective truth could then be understood as a mental aberration.
How can we begin to understand objective truth? It surely can only be verified inwardly, because the verifier is one’s own consciousness. Truth is not in the object but in the subject. Truth is an experience. It is a living perception and the fundamental cognition of this truth is the recognition of self. It is the ‘I Am’ of consciousness. This experience is not an epi-phenomenon of the brain that scientific atheists and materialists believe.
Because of truth, freedom is possible. And because of freedom, truth is possible. In relation to what is happening in the world, this focus on truth can lead to a revelation; that truth has a natural universal moral quality. This moral quality can be experienced as love, honesty, freedom and other universal ‘noble’ attributes.
To be continued
The search for truth needs to begin with a decision to be honest: inwardly honest about one’s actual human condition. As a representative of the whole of humanity, any insights into the human condition need to begin with oneself. The most profound of the insights possible by conscious self-reflection, is that of consciousness recognising its own sovereign autonomy. Consciousness can recognise its primary status as an individuated living entity.
Even though consciousness can also be realised as being universal, being the ultimate undifferentiated living reality, it can simultaneously be experienced in its particular human condition, as individuated (personal) consciousness. Therefore, ‘I’ as a conscious individuated being, am ultimately responsible for my thoughts and actions. This amounts to what is the most important aspect of what it means to be human: our living sacred soul. It is the living autonomous spiritual essence of our human status. It is naturally moral. Its natural moral impulse is a truth that is inherent and beyond all social conditioning.
It is a light brighter than all others and is indeed the source of everything. From the foundation of this self-evident experience of consciousness,
and feeling of morality, thinking can elect to cultivate pure honesty as a guide to living. In other words, thought can align itself with the impulse of honesty in its orientation as truth-seeker. Moment by moment. Supporting each other. Transforming incrementally with honesty as the guide. This is the new vision. It will transform a degenerate ideology that has increasingly dominated our world. An ideology based on lies, deceptions and immorality. It has come to this. We are being asked to choose.
The truth shall set us free.
Sat-Sang 1
“Wisdom resides solely in truth”.
Goethe
What is truth? Can there be an objective understanding of truth beyond the subjective versions of my truth and your truth? In India the term ‘Sat Sang’ has been used for centuries, meaning to share the truth, or words to that effect. That term has now infiltrated into some Western spiritual lexicons. The word ‘Sat’ means truth, but what kind of truth? Sat-Sang implies the sharing of truth, but from the ‘heart’. And this additional meaning is the anchor that steadies the ship. By the heart what is indicated is that there is a natural inner quality that ‘feels’ the truth. This quality is with human consciousness and it can discern what is truth and what isn’t. Therefore, sharing from within this inner quality of truth becomes possible.
