What Tara didn't know was that her very attack on me, and the untruths she told about me, were an essential element in giving me the spiritual power to succeed in this work. For the truth has to come out eventually. If it cannot come out in one way, it will find another way. The greater the lies told against a person, the stronger he has to grow in the truth. If in this life those lies succeed in destroying him, that power of truth will manifest in him in another life.
Truth has to come out.
That is the karmic law. Tara didn't succeed in destroying me. Instead, her attempt to do so was an underlying factor in Ananda's eventual success. Every time Ananda has been unjustly attacked, indeed, the very attacks have only increased our power to succeed. In the present attempts against us, we keep marveling to see how very much stronger we've become, simply by standing up for the truth as we know it and doing our best to continue with our work.