To find truth, one must experience truth through Transcendental Meditation. Truth cannot be expressed by articulate language. Truth is seen and experienced by intuition only, because it is the self-luminous light of consciousness.

To discover the truth gives peace, progress, prosperity, spiritual power and eternity.

Untruth gives misery, mental and physical suffering and continued bondage.

The movement of the mind in a righteous way leads to truth. The movement of the mind in a false way leads to untruth. Transcendental Meditation is the instrument to check the mind from lower movement and turn it to higher movement.

Meditation might be said to be the process of undoing what we have spent ages doing. In Transcendental Meditation we are yoking up with God to be what we were created to be.

If we wished to define truth we would have to say it is that which is. However, we would also have to realize that there are two categories of truth - relative and absolute.

Relative truth is that truth that exists within the limitations of time, space, cause and effect.

Absolute truth is that truth that exists permenantly, everywhere, and is not effected or contradicted by time, space, cause and effect.

In relative truth, there is always something depending on something else.

In absolute truth, it is dependent on nothing other than itself. It is forever non-changing.

One facet of relativity is that every point of relativity has the absolute truth at its center. The reason humans suffer is because they have forgotten the truth of the Laws and how to live them. So, suffering is not caused by a God of wrath, but rather it is self-created. Suffering is not our true nature, but it does exist as long as we continue to create it for ourselves.

No one sufferes because of time. We suffer because we have created a particular condition at that particular time. Even so, at any particular time, all people would not suffer at the same time. Only those who are involved in the suffering at that particular time would suffer, whereas others would at that same particular time remain happy.

We may ask, can a particular place be the universal cause of suffering. And we would have to say, no. A place can trigger off hidden troubles to manifest themselves. By itself, it can neither cause or create suffering - each person would be differently affected by the same place. One other reason we suffer is because we attempt to make the relative truth into the absolute truth - trying to maintain the status quo in an epoch of change.

Anytime we consider the relative, finite, as totality rather than a dependent part, then we experience suffering because a part cannot be the whole. We should not try to make the relative into the absolute, but what we should do is to identify with the absolute. And this we can do through the practice of Transcendental Meditation.

From one incarnation to another the mind, senses and soul remain the same. The body does not. So, a human is a combination of absolute and relative. In his ignorance he believes himself to be only one aspect, and that aspect is relative. However, in meditation, the truth is slowly revealed; that truth is the fact that we are really eternal and that is absolute.

Life moves with the subtle body and death claims the physical body, and then when we have undergone a complete purification and rectification of all our past mistakes and beliefs, we come to our cosmic mind and the relative truth has now merged into the absolute truth.

However, to gain a status of absolute truth through Transcendental Meditation, we must be endowed with sincerity and have the faith to follow through in order to gain discrimination, which implies knowing the Self and the non self. Knowing that which is supportive of life and that which is not, knowing that we have to gain freedom from desire and absence of cravings and increased detachment from the world of objects - these are the expressions of spiritual strength and wisdom.

With increased wisdom and dispassion, the unconscious levels of the mind become free from gross complexes and subtle desires, and with this comes an increasing experience of calmness and serenity. And this enables one to exercise mastery over the senses. When the individuality or personality is highly integrated, one is no longer inclined to actions based on the egocentric demands of the mind - faulty actions are replaced with correct actions - selfishness disappears. We also gain qualities of endurance and patience and strength of wisdom.

A mind that is attaining a higher level of purification begins to reflect more and more the glory of the Self. It now gains an unswerving faith in the Self and the perspective of Cosmic Consciousness. In this state the mind is free from worries, sorrows, problems and distractions. Tranquility of mind is attained.

Now we see what is true and what is not true, because we have moved away from relative truth to absolute truth.