Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c11.s11.9

c11.s11.9

My purpose for creating this text is to bring out the *satya* — that which is true — to spell out *satya* as *satya* and falsehood as falsehood. This I understand as the light of *satya*. Telling lies as *satya* and *satya* as lies is not *satya*. To describe something as it really is in writing and to believe in it — is *satya*. A prejudiced person justifies his *asatya* as *satya* and *satya* of other’s as *asatya*. Thus he cannot attain the tenet of *satya*. Therefore this is the duty of reliable scholars that in their discourse as well as in writings they should deliver the real nature of *satya* and *asatya* to the society. After that having understood their own good and bad they will accept *satya* and give up *asatya* and remain happy.⁸⁶