“If you are careless about the discipline of truth, every duty laid on you by dharma and every action prompted by dharma will hang heavy as a burden. Search for the reality behind all these phenomena and that search will make all dharmic actions light and pleasant. The Lord has shaped people so that they are inclined toward God and is delighted at the expansion of their vision and happy when they are moral and virtuous. So, people must serve their best interests by adhering to their basic nature, by concentrating on Brahman, by cultivating truth, and by practising dharma. Truth has to be sought and tested by all the canons of reasoning. The discipline consists of: • The heroism to observe dharma rigorously (ojas). • Fearless self-control (tejas). • The discarding of all feelings of joy or sorrow at the ups and downs of life, with equanimity. • Having unshakable faith in truth and dharma (sahana). • Mental and physical health of the most excellent kind, earned by discipline and celibacy (bala). • The desire and ability to speak sweetly and straight, won by the practice of truth and love. • Withdrawal of the five senses of wisdom (jnanendriyas) and the five senses of action (karmendriyas) from vice and sin and the sublimation of all the senses for the service of truth (indriya-moha). • The winning of the overlordship of all the worlds by the self-won domination of the inner world. • The destruction of one’s prejudices and the pursuit of truth at all times (dharma). The prayer one has to make is, “May all this be conferred on me” as found in the “Chamaka hymn”. Dharma brings good to all; it confers bliss (ananda) here and hereafter. It is essential that all humanity today see the glory of this universal dharma”