Satyalok and Rishidesh
Our ancient Hindu texts revere our land as Satyalok and Rishidesh. Etimologically both the words Satya and Rishi/Rushi mean the same. It is Truth. Rishis are called as Sages in English. Satya is translated as Truth in English.
Satyameva Jayate
And our Upanishadic adage says that “Satyameva Jayate” meaning Truth Prevails ultimately. Indirectly telling that truth wins over the evil and the untruth.
Let us know that this is not mythology. Indians practiced tooth and nail the truthfulness in their daily routine lives. Truthfulness was their way of life. See what foreign observers told about ancient India and Indians. So Indian religion is ingrained in the minds of all Indians so much so that people follow the rules of Dharma as if they know what is written in the scriptures without reading them.
Indians are so honest that they neither required locks in their doors nor they reduce their agreements into writing to bind them. – STRABO (63 BCE-24 ACE)
The Indians are innumerable, like grains of sand free from deceit and violence. They fear neither death nor life. And,
You must know that Indians are the best merchants in the world and the most truthful for they would not tell a lie for anything on earth. – MARCO POLO (1254-1295 ACE)
The Hindus are admirers of Truth and of unbounded fidelity in all their dealings. – ABUL FAZAL (1551-1602 ACE)
It was love of truth that struck all the peoples who came in contact with India as the prominent feature in the national character of the inhabitants. – MAX MULLER (1823-1900 ACE)
Unlike other Religions of the World, Hindu religion is not founded on a single religious text. Nor it is controlled by any clergy of a Religious Congress. Indian society has evolved over thousands of years. There is no rigidity of tenets for practicing Hindu Religion. Manu Smriti says that laws must change according to Desa (country), Kalamana (times and time measure), and Paristhiti (practical situation). But Humane of course. That is the essence of Indian Religion. It is based on the principles of Achara Paramo Dharma (meaning: A particular People’s customs should prevail over general Dharma strictures .)