Adi Shankaracharya was once looking for someone to do a commentary on his work, ‘Saundarya Lahiri’. He decided to approach the learned Vedic scholar Bhattacharya for the purpose. When he went to meet him, he found Bhattacharya immolating himself, one of his eyes was badly injured. Shankaracharya showed him the book, reading which Bhattacharya complimented saying ‘ati uttam’ (brilliant) (his body was already on fire). Shankracharya asked him for the commentary to which Bhattacharya replied that he has no time left and his body would turn to ashes within few minutes, he recommended his shishya Mandan Mishra for the task of writing the commentary. Shankracharya then asked him the reason for putting his body through all this and also how he injured his eye. Bhattacharya explained that when Buddhism started going against vedic teachings, he decided to learn Buddhist teachings under a Buddhist Guru incognito and debate with the followers upon the authority of Vedas. When his Guru got to know of his lie, he ordered the rest of the monks to throw him off the cliff. As he was being thrown, Bhattacharya said ‘If the Vedas are true, then nothing will happen to me.’ Just like those gentlemen had used ‘maybe’ and ‘assume’, Bhattacharya used the word ‘if’. Result? While he was saved, he lost an eye. Had he said, ‘Vedas are there, nothing will happen to me, throw me’, he would not have injured himself. Regarding why he was immolating himself, Bhattacharya replied that he was doing penance for ‘Guru Droh’. Even though he did what he did for the Vedas, in the process he went against the one whom he took as his Guru.

Satya is satya. There are no ‘ifs’ and ‘maybes’ in it. Never make the mistake of doubting upon it, wait for your experience so that you can say without a doubt that God is in every speck because that is the only truth and yog and Sanatan Kriya take you towards this. There is only one satya (truth) in this creation, but in order to awaken that within you, it is imperative to do yog in totality as only then you will have the experience of it. And when you have experience of it, then that means you are doing yog. And only then you can experience satya.