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Script error: No such module "lang". is an important concept and virtue in Indian religions. Rigveda, dated to be from Template:BCE, offers the earliest discussion of Script error: No such module "lang"..[1][2] It can be seen, for example, in the fifth and sixth lines, in this Rigveda manuscript image.

Script error: No such module "lang". (Sanskrit: Script error: No such module "Lang".; IAST: Script error: No such module "lang".) is a Sanskrit word that can be translated as "truth" or "essence.“[3] In Indian religions, it refers to a kind of virtue found across them. This virtue most commonly refers to being truthful in one's thoughts, speech and action.[4] For Yoga particularly, satya is one of five yamas, the virtuous restraint from falsehood and distortion of reality in one's expressions and actions.[5]

Etymology and meaning

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". In the Vedas and later sutras, the meaning of the word Script error: No such module "lang". evolves into an ethical concept about truthfulness and an important virtue.[4][6] It means being true and consistent with reality in one's thought, speech, and action.[4]

Script error: No such module "lang". has cognates in a number of diverse Indo-European languages, including the word "sooth" and "sin" in English, "Script error: No such module "lang"." ("Script error: No such module "Lang".") in Russian, "Script error: No such module "Lang"." (truthful) in Danish, "Script error: No such module "Lang"." in Swedish, and "Script error: No such module "lang"." in Avestan, the liturgical language of Zoroastrianism.[7]

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Script error: No such module "lang". (Template:Langx) is the root of many Sanskrit words and concepts such as Script error: No such module "lang". ("pure, truthful") and Script error: No such module "lang". ("truth"). The Sanskrit root Script error: No such module "lang". has several meanings or translations:[8][9]

  1. "Absolute reality"
  2. "Fact"
  3. "Brahman" (not to be confused with Brahmin)
  4. "that which is unchangeable"
  5. "that which has no distortion"
  6. "that which is beyond distinctions of time, space, and person"
  7. "that which pervades the universe in all its constancy"

Script error: No such module "lang". is a common prefix in ancient Indian literature and implies variously that which is good, true, genuine, virtuous, being, happening, real, existing, enduring, lasting, or essential; for example, Script error: No such module "lang". means true doctrine, Script error: No such module "lang". means one devoted to the truth.[10]Template:Rp[8] In ancient texts, fusion words based on Script error: No such module "lang". refer to "Universal Spirit, Universal Principle, Being, Soul of the World, Brahman".[11][12]

The negation of Script error: No such module "lang". is Script error: No such module "lang"., that is delusion, distorted, untrue, the fleeting impression that is incorrect, invalid, and false.Template:RTemplate:R The concepts of Script error: No such module "lang". and Script error: No such module "lang". are famously expressed in the Pavamana Mantra found in the Script error: No such module "lang". (1.3.28): Template:Verse translation Script error: No such module "lang". is one of the three characteristics of Brahman as described in Script error: No such module "lang"..[12] This association between Script error: No such module "lang"., 'truth', and Script error: No such module "lang"., ultimate reality, is also expressed in Hindu cosmology, wherein Script error: No such module "lang"., the highest heaven of Hindu cosmology, is the abode of Script error: No such module "lang"..

Hinduism

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Vedic literature

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". Script error: No such module "lang". is a central theme in the Vedas. It is equated with and considered necessary to the concept Script error: No such module "lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "lang".)—that which is properly joined, order, rule, nature, balance, harmony.[1][13] Script error: No such module "lang". results from Script error: No such module "lang". in the Vedas, as itScript error: No such module "Unsubst". regulates and enables the operation of the universe and everything within it.[14] Script error: No such module "lang". is considered essential, and without it, the universe and reality falls apart, cannot function.[14]

In Rigveda, opposed to Script error: No such module "lang". and Script error: No such module "lang". are Script error: No such module "lang". and Script error: No such module "lang". (falsehood).[1] Truth and truthfulness is considered as a form of reverence for the divine, while falsehood a form of sin. Script error: No such module "lang". includes action and speech that is factual, real, true, and reverent to Script error: No such module "lang". in Books 1, 4, 6, 7, 9, and 10 of Rigveda.[2] However, Script error: No such module "lang". isn't merely about one's past that is in context in the Vedas, it has one's current and one's future contexts as well.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "Unsubst". states, that in Rigveda, "Script error: No such module "lang". is the modality of acting in the world of Script error: No such module "lang"., as the truth to be built, formed or established".[2]

Upanishads

Script error: No such module "lang". is widely discussed in various Upanishads, including the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad where Script error: No such module "lang". is called the means to Brahman, as well as Brahman (Being, true self).[15][16] In hymn 1.4.14 of Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Satya (truth) is equated to Dharma (morality, ethics, law of righteousness),[17] as

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Taittiriya Upanishad's hymn 11.11 states, "Speak the Script error: No such module "lang". (truth), conduct yourself according to the Script error: No such module "lang". (morality, ethics, law)".[18][17]

Truth is sought, praised in the hymns of Upanishads, held as one that ultimately, always prevails. The Mundaka Upanishad, for example, states in Book 3, Chapter 1,[19]

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Sandilya Upanishad of Atharvaveda, in Chapter 1, includes ten forbearances[20] as virtues, in its exposition of Yoga. It defines Script error: No such module "lang". as "the speaking of the truth that conduces to the well being of creatures, through the actions of one's mind, speech, or body."[21]

Deussen states that Script error: No such module "lang". is described in the major Upanishads with two layers of meanings—one as empirical truth about reality, another as abstract truth about universal principle, being, and the unchanging. Both of these ideas are explained in early Upanishads, composed before Template:BCE, by variously breaking the word Script error: No such module "lang". or Script error: No such module "lang". into two or three syllables. In later Upanishads, the ideas evolve and transcend into Script error: No such module "lang". as truth (or truthfulness), and Script error: No such module "lang". as the Being, Be-ness, real Self, the eternal.[22]

Epics

The Shanti Parva of the Mahabharata states, "The righteous hold that forgiveness, truth, sincerity, and compassion are the foremost (of all virtues). Truth is the essence of the Vedas."[23]

The Epic repeatedly emphasizes that Script error: No such module "lang". is a basic virtue, because everything and everyone depends on and relies on Script error: No such module "lang"..[24]

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Yoga Sutras

In the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, it is written, “When one is firmly established in speaking truth, the fruits of action become subservient to him."[25] In Yoga sutra, Script error: No such module "lang". is one of the five Script error: No such module "lang"., or virtuous restraints, along with Script error: No such module "lang". (restraint from violence or injury to any living being); Script error: No such module "lang". (restraint from stealing); Script error: No such module "lang". (celibacy or restraint from sexually cheating on one's partner); and Script error: No such module "lang". (restraint from covetousness and craving). Patanjali considers Script error: No such module "lang". as a restraint from falsehood in one's action (body), words (speech, writing), or feelings / thoughts (mind).[5][26] In Patanjali's teachings, one may not always know the truth or the whole truth, but one knows if one is creating, sustaining, or expressing falsehood, exaggeration, distortion, fabrication, or deception.[25] Script error: No such module "lang". is, in Patanjali's Yoga, the virtue of restraint from such falsehood, either through silence or through stating the truth without any form of distortion.[27]

Jainism

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Script error: No such module "lang". is one of the five vows prescribed in Jain Agamas. Script error: No such module "lang". was also preached by Mahavira.[28] According to Jainism, not to lie or speak what is not commendable.Template:Sentence fragment[29]Template:Rp The underlying cause of falsehood is passion and therefore, it is said to cause Script error: No such module "lang". (injury).Template:R

According to the Jain text Sarvārthasiddhi: "that which causes pain and suffering to the living is not commendable, whether it refers to actual facts or not".[30]

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Buddhism

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". The term Script error: No such module "lang". (Pali: Script error: No such module "lang".) is translated into English as "reality" or "truth." In terms of the Four Noble Truths (Script error: No such module "lang".), the Pali can be written as Script error: No such module "lang"., Script error: No such module "lang"., Script error: No such module "lang"., and Script error: No such module "lang"..

'The Four Noble Truths' (Script error: No such module "lang".) are the briefest synthesis of the entire teaching of Buddhism,[31][32] since all those manifold doctrines of the threefold Pali canon are, without any exception, included therein. They are the truth of suffering (mundane mental and physical phenomenon), of the origin of suffering (Script error: No such module "lang"., craving), of the extinction of suffering (Script error: No such module "lang". or Script error: No such module "lang".), and of the Noble Eightfold Path leading to the extinction of suffering (the eight supra-mundane mind factors).[33]

Sikhism

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Sat or truthfulness is one of the 5 virtues in Sikhism.

Indian emblem motto

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National Emblem of India

The motto of the republic of India's emblem is Satyameva Jayate which is literally translated as 'Truth alone triumphs'.

See also

References

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