Guest guest Posted January 13, 2002 Report Share Posted January 13, 2002 Developing on the theme of What is truth? asked one list member...... - "Kendra Crossen Burroughs" <Ramakrishna> Sunday, January 13, 2002 01:41 Re: [sri Ramakrishna] What is Truth? > > > I want to ask you people,"What is Truth?." > > I like something that Ramesh Balsekar said about this question. I will > paraphrase it: Anything that you can *say* about Truth is merely a concept. > There is only one thing that is not a concept--your own existence. All you know > is that you exist. Therefore the only Truth is I AM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~adding to this thread~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I would go along with this to a certain extent. One of the ways one can relate to truth is by usage 'existence' (not that it depends on your existence but 'existence' itself). Hence the usage 'Sat Chit Ananda' as 'Brahman'. Sat = 'truth'. But the only way one can grasp the idea of existence is if there is a variation in existence..... (if there is no variation then existence is undifferentiated and hence cannot be understood or experienced). Not pure existence but variation in existence is all we can talk about. This is called Maya. Hence under the spell of maya 'truth' we can talk about comes in the following flavours:- 'partial, relative or a-priori -- never absolute. jay Vivekananda Centre London Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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