Truth alone wins, not falsehood.

The origin of ‘Satyamev Jayate’

सत्यमेव जयते नानृतं सत्येन पन्था विततो देवयानः । 
येनाक्रमन्त्यृषयो ह्याप्तकामा यत्र तत् सत्यस्य परमं निधानम् ॥ ६ ॥

satyameva jayate nānṛtaṃ satyena panthā vitato devayānaḥ | 
yenākramantyṛṣayo hyāptakāmā yatra tat satyasya paramaṃ nidhānam || 6 ||

– Mundaka Upanishad Verse 3.1.6

“Truth alone wins, not falsehood.

By truth, the Devayanah (the path of the Devas) is widened, that by which the seers travel on, having nothing to wish for to where there is that—the highest treasure attained by truth.”

(Those free from deceit, delusion, fraud, pride, vanity and falsehood and having no desires, go about to where the absolute truth, the highest treasure covetable by man and attainable by the important aid, truth)

This is in many ways a great prescription for the modern age. Information is more abundant today than ever before in history. But so is misinformation, disinformation and confusion.

The pursuit of truth – in life and business means appreciation of perspectives with a benchmark of verifiable facts. In every sense this is also the “scientific method” of hypothesis-test- validation.

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