We teach our kids to write applications: “Humbly I beg to submit that today I have an ache in my tooth.” “Humbly I beg to submit!” If you are stating a fact, if the toothache is real, why the hell are you groveling? If that is the Truth, why are you begging? Drool, drool, drool. That’s become our culture. If your philosophy tells you to submit and surrender to several masters, you will never be a truthful person, because in Truth there is no authority but the Truth.
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Questioner: The title is a very powerful “Truth without apology.” So it seems like you have seen a lot of people who kind of are lovers of Truth but they fear to say it out loud. And they have a lot of shaking inside them while communicating this Truth with others. So why didn't people have this apology while communicating this Truth to someone? I guess it is our greed.
Acharya Prashant: No, no, no. The reason you must link to what we were saying just now.
Our fundamental allegiance is not to the Truth. It is to the powers that be.
Think of your practical daily life. Who do you submit to? The Truth or the Lords? That's the thing. And that's why when you side with the Truth, when you fall in love with the Truth, you have to apologize to the lords. One Truth, one master, one center, one destiny. That's Vedant;
