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I would like to share a few thoughts on TRUTH like I have done with others:

 

 

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Hegel observed:

"The human mind moves dialectically, constantly embracing an ever increasing

scope of reality discovering the truth of anything only after discovering its

relation, to the whole, to the Idea."

 

Aristotle said:

"The knowledge of Soul contributes greatly to advance truth in general, and

above all, to our understanding of Nature."

 

Augustine on Truth:

The origin of truth was not of as much concern for Augustine as was the issue

of the certainty of our ideas. For Augustine, humans and their "mind" was

constructed in such a way that they see the physical and eternal truths by means

of two different lights. The corporeal or sun light allows the eyes to see

physical things around us while the eternal truths (such as mathematical

truths),

are seen through a certain "incorporeal light" of a unique kind. More

precisely, Augustine's "doctrine of Illumination" states:

 

"There is present in us the light of eternal reason, in which light the

immutable truths are seen."

 

Just as birds and bees exist in the dark but are seen only when the light of

the sun shines on them (a physical truth), Augustine believed that the eternal

truths pre-exist and that the divine light performs the same kind of

function, as does sunlight. In other words, the divine light is not the source

of

eternal truth but rather a means to recognize those truths: it allows our

judgment

to perceive certain ideas that contain eternal truth.

 

God and Eternal Truth

After his deep involvement in sensual pleasures with two mistresses,

Augustine realized that the pleasures of flesh and sensations are not the way

for the

"soul" to find peace. Since he also had the experience of knowing certain

truths that seemed to him eternal (e.g. Beauty and mathematics), it occurred to

Augustine that the activities of "mind" are the ones that leave a more lasting

and profound mark than those of the physical body.

 

What touched Augustine the most was the fact that the human "mind" is capable

of gaining knowledge beyond its capacity and that this "knowledge-beyond"

does not come from the finite things we see. Nor was it a creation of the "mind"

- rather, Augustine found it essential that the source of "knowledge-beyond"

or immutable truth or eternal truth, be God. This also led Augustine to the

conclusion that eternal truths pre-exist.

 

Bhagavad Gita:

The unreal has no being: there is no non-being of the real. The true

understanding about being/non-being and real/unreal comes only to those who are

close

to the Truth. "Brahma" is the eternal Truth and therefore imperishable.

 

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Dave Anand