Eternal Truth

Meaning: According to the line of Rigved 5/45/5 — those who act according to the eternal truth without malice towards anyone really deserve praise. Only those men deserve honor who destroy the wicked thoughts and enhance wisdom.
Message: Man's life contains many types of mental perversities, and its importance lies in constant efforts for liberation from them. Once the faults and other bad tendencies enter into our conduct, it is very difficult to be free from them. It is even more difficult to achieve freedom from malice. For that one must have mental cleanliness, sincerity and harmony in profound measure. It is a matter of no less spiritual endeavor if we do not harm in any way nor insult any person who becomes the reason for our financial loss and loss of honor and who puts obstacles in our path. It requires tremendous willpower. It is only the rare individuals who possess the sentiment of helping those very persons who have put thorns in their path. This is possible only when there is understanding of each other's pain and sorrow and the sentiment of friendship. In the mental and spiritual fields, only malice is the most obstructive sentiments.
To give up personal malice and to be good to a person despite his harmful dealing applies only to an individual but not for the nation or the society or an institution. If an enemy attacks our country, the proper reply is only with a crushing counter attack. Only the arrangement of severe punishment to the anti social elements and the criminals, keeps the society organized. To offer flowers to the criminals for their harmful activities will prove extremely harmful to the society and as far as institutional functioning is concerned, without punishing the person for his mistakes, the society's organization cannot function. Keeping this in view, the organizer of the institution must ruthlessly crush untoward activities and he must not have sentimental attachment for any member, because ultimately the interest, survival and progress of the society count. Only wise, knowledgeable and cultured persons can save themselves in this manner from sentimental attachment. Today innumerable institutions have wandered away from their original aims and what is happening is that all concerned are turning a blind eye to internal corruption and are rather encouraging it. Simultaneously, intoxicated with power, they lose their mental balance and never lose an opportunity to maliciously insult good workers.
'Malice towards none and good will towards all' and to forgive the malicious is related only to an individual's life and not with national, societal or institutional dealing. But mostly the opposite happens. People cultivate malice to individual levels and also constantly burn with it, whereas in dealings with the society or the nation or an intuition, they bow down to malicious and wicked people. This is an indication of their cowardice. In our individual conduct, we must constantly try to free ourselves from malice.