Truthful and honest wins the race
By Er Taraprasad Mishra
Truth is the foundation for a good relationship. Once we tell a lie, we will have to speak many lies. Telling a lie will give only partial happiness to that person, but when he will know about the truth he will feel very bad. Our religion teaches us to be honest in our life. In majority of the situations, the truth succeeds against lies. To be honest in our deeds
is much better than to be fake in our work. We will achieve success by speaking
truly in our life. Firstly, here is an example of two best friends which tells
us that truth can build a good relationship rather than lies. Sita and Gita
were the best friends from childhood itself. We all have been taught since childhood “ hamesha sach bolna chahiye”( we should always speak the truth) but if we just sit back and reflect for a moment our whole day activities majority of us will find that we hardly follow this statement nowadays. So the question arises, Is speaking truth so difficult? Does it take a lot of courage and endeavours to speak the truth? The answer is No. Truth is all pervasive, it cannot be denied. It is very easy to speak lies but if one knows the beauty of truth, I think one will always follow the path of the truth. The first and for most benefit of speaking truth is that it provides immense peace and satisfaction. When someone speaks lies the conscious of the person pokes him every time that he has spoken a lie and this disturbs the inner peace of the person .Nothing counts more than the inner satisfaction and peace of the person. When someone speaks the truth he never faces this situation. He is always at ease and has a perpetual smile on his face which is the reflection of his satisfaction and peace. The path of lies is short and easy. It appears attractive and tempting. It lures the person by highlighting the immediate benefits but it is just an illusion which is short lived. It just provides success and happiness which is short lived. The path of honesty may appear difficult, where results can only be achieved through sincere and diligent hard work, but its results are permanent. The one who follows this path always emerges successful, happy and contendedThe people who speak the truth, how worse the situation may be, becomes an ideal and role model for others. He leads by example. Such people who always follow the truth even in the most difficult of situations is admired and respected by all and set an example for others. They are the live examples of the fact that truth triumphs always.. When a person speaks a lie he can save momentarily himself, but when it is discovered he loses the confidence and respect of the person to whom he spoke the lies but a person who follows the path of the truth never faces this situation. He is always respected and honoured by everyone and holds a respectable position in the society. Truth is all pervasive and continuous. It does not need to be proved. It does not need evidence and figures to establish its identity. Truth exists independently. It does not need any support. Speaking the truth can melt the hardest of the person and can amend the worst situation. It can turn the most unfavourable situation as favourable in just few moments so speaking truth creates an environment of optimism around the person which is needed to strive in the difficult of the situations. Truthfulness is not limited to the outside world. A person needs to be honest to one self also. When a person is honest to himself/herself, it makes him content, free from any feeling of guilt. The person enjoys every moment of his life, whatever the situation may be. Victory always comes to such people. The path of truth is difficult to follow, it takes a lot of patience and courage to follow it but those who follow this path are always gifted with contentment ,happiness and self -satisfaction which are the key elements to a happy life.
Truth is the only weapon which can make a person win a battle. It is a pen that can write anything without anyone’s terror; it is a game in which who follows its one golden rule can never lose it; it is a tree that never loses its leaves; it is a river that can not get filthy and dry in any season.. Overall it can create heaven or else if not followed properly can ruin the whole world. It is said that to hide one lie we have to speak hundred more lies and that’s true. A lie spoken intentionally means we need to speak several more lies to cover up that lie. And then also the truth comes out itself automatically. Every thing has two sides, positive as well as negative. A coin has positive side of triumph and negative side of disaster also. if a person wins then he may also lose someday. If happiness is there then sadness is obvious. If a tree bear leaves then it also shed them. If one can stand then one can also fall. Taken as a whole, one can get to face anything in this whole world. And it is true. In our daily life, as an instance, we meet our relatives and if they hide anything from us by telling anything which is not true and later we come to know then we turn violent and more aggressive. It leads to disrespect to the person. Truth was the only mother, father, son, daughter of the most widely known leader of the world- Gandhiji. He believed in truthfulness and he promoted its principle. And also it was obvious that for this single reason he was known world wide. With this extraordinary weapon, he threw out the brutal and atrocious britishers out of our country. He believed in the principle of satyagraha which proved to be the most influential and imperative movement of the period. Truth and non- violence are as old as the hills.’ And this is true as truth and lie are not the new concepts that the world has. It is as old as even more then hills and mountains. No one can teach the world the art of speaking truth and plus of the lies. They come out from within our heart. According to me, Nelson Mandela can also undertaken as a person who followed truth and won the whole world the price of peace, equality and oneness. He being a ‘black’ became the president of ANC (African National Congress) and also he won the Nobel prize for his greatest achievement. He promoted equality among all the people on his principle that every one is equal in the eyes of God. He was true in his outline as every one is equal and equality in itself is also a truth. Also an example from our daily life, we are becoming more scientific these days but there are many people who still believe in superstitions. There are many misleading people who in the name of God hypnotize people in such a way that neither anyone comes to know about such thing nor the hypnotized is able to tell. But this is a bitter truth that those who follow anyone blindly have to face problems later in life. Even the person doing such illegal and superfluous acts are always caught and they can not make fool of people for long. A recent example is of the person who was called as guruji in Punjab- Sarasa. He was popularly known all around the world. He had separated salokas which had very less verses praising God and more of praising himself. But the problem was that whatever he was doing was wrong, whatever he was saying was lie, whatever acts he was committing were illegal! And surprisingly a member from his own crew told the media that something was wrong going on at his place. Shockingly he used not to allow any of his disciple to talk to anyone because if they would do so then by chance if anyone else would hear it, then his acts would be held naked in the world and now this has happened, his popularity is decreasing also he is being disliked by the people now.
This has not been the case in the present world but also during satyug( according to Hindu mythology) when Lord Rama were existing. He killed Ravana and placed truth over evil. he was cruel and so he did not win this battle of truth and evilness in spite of being so knowledgeable. This shows that truth wins and lies or evil faces disaster and fails. But this is a fact that this yug is kalyug and in this yug is lies or evilness is given the same importance as it is given to truth. They are considered one and the same. For example in the case of Jessica Lal, it was first being kept aside and with false statements it was tried to conclude. False statements and evil methods were adopted to sole this matter quickly and quietly. But unfortunately this could not happen. Truth may be kept behind for years and years but one day itself it would come up and the liar will have to face problem for his mistake. At last I would like to conclude that whatever be the case whether this or that we must not leave the path of truthfulness as this is the only way that would lead us to place which is as beautiful as heaven and the other way would lead us to a place like hell. It depends on us which way we opt. Finally by analysis of the history and of the present world we come to know that we can not hide truth for long and can not follow fakeness for long. Thus, truth always triumph! Satya Meva Jayati! As we say that ‘slow and steady wins the race’ we can say that ‘Truthful and honest wins the race.’
