Great Construction

Embodiment of Truth（TMK)

     The true purpose of a religion is the embodiment of truth. Truth is nothing but a natural phase of the Universe itself, the reality of which none can deny. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Man, being once born, must someday die (this in Buddhist terms is expressed as follows: Everyone living must die; those who meet must part, and man keeps living by breathing and eating.) These are all “truth”. The present condition of human beings is so confused that even such a patent fact needs an explanation.
     Confusion, conflict, disorder, crime, etc., are pervading every aspect of the modern community. Nobody will deny that such conditions are, for human beings, the cause for unhappiness rather than happiness.
     Where is, then, the root of such conditions? I think that the root of all affairs in the world are deviating from the truth too evidently. Only people have not taken notice of the said fact.
     Frankly speaking modern people do not even know what truth itself is, partly because they have not enough time to think about “truth” under the pressure of living.
     Even some religions have not hitherto been able to clearly understand what truth is.
     If religions had been able to really preach “truth”, human society would have been free from such a profound agony from which it is now suffering.
     Maybe, an earthly paradise would have already been realized to some extent.
     I believe that now the time has come, however, when the Great Love of God should be manifested, and God has chosen me to open the way to “truth”.
     One will be able to gradually understand what truth is when one open-mindedly reads and appreciates, articles and remarks by me in which I am preaching “truth”.
     For example, man falls ill because he has deviated from truth in some respects, and he can not be truly cured because he has deviated from truth.
     Dangerous thoughts, increase of crime, shortage of money, inflation or deflation, etc., are all results of deviation from “truth”.
     Life has been so made by God that every wish man has is easily realized, as long as it is right and if everything in the world is not deviated from “truth”.
     Then, an ideal human society pervaded with good and beautiful thoughts, and human life full of joy and happiness are sure to be realized. This is none other than the true phase of the Earthly Paradise, the advent of which I am always advocating.
     One might think that my opinion is very different from others, but it is not so. It is quite normal and not strange.
     It is when anyone reads my articles with eyes clouded by non-truth that they think they are abnormal. The stranger my opinions seem to people of the world, it follows that the more abnormal the modern community is. The people who affirm my opinion can be said to have grasped what truth is.
     God has granted boundless freedom to human beings. This is a “truth”.
     Here lies the reason why human beings are far superior to other creatures. Then what does the liberty allowed to human beings mean? Man is situated between God and beasts, the two extremes, approaching nearer to God by elevating himself, and to beasts by degradation. In other words, it depends upon his own actions whether this world becomes a sweet paradise or a miserable hell. This is “truth”. It is a matter of course that anyone should prefer the former to the latter.
     In short, realization of the heavenly world is the final purpose of human beings and to attain this purpose, “truth” should be embodied. That is the essential mission of religion in general.
     So I am always preaching and writing on “truth”, making efforts, and leading a busy life day and night as a person with a mission to embody “truth”.

Teachings of Meishu and Kyoshu, page 3, no date