The ONE Truth

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Namaste Benjamin,

 

The Hindu tolerance has its source in moral precepts such as the following:

 

Satam brooyaat, priyam brooyaat

Na Brooyaat satyam apriyam

priyam cha anruthan na brooyaat.

 

Speak the truth, speak what is pleasant.

If you cannot speak the truth pleasantly, do not speak it.

Also do not speak an untruth, just because it is pleasant.

 

(In quoting this, I am not suggesting that you were unpleasant while expressing

the truth - Unpleasantness here only means unacceptance to the other person)

 

As advaitins we know that Truth and Happiness (just another word for

Pleasantness) are one and the same and that there can be no contradiction

between the two. If some find the Truth unpleasant, it can only mean one of the

two things:

 

1. The Truth that is being expounded is really not the Truth. In which case it

is just well that it is not accepted. The believer in such Truth will realise

this when he is ready for it.

2. Truth meets with unacceptance because the listener is not ready for it. In

this case the Truth remains the Truth and will find acceptance when the other

person is ready.

 

So if we find that the Truth in which we believe in is met with unacceptance, we

do not try to force the issue. We just continue our own Sadhana and let the

process of time establish what is what.

 

As I said earlier in one of my posts, based on my own definition of pleasantness

and unpleasantness, it is better to be not accepted than to be ignored. And you

were never ignored.

 

One cannot have everything; so if you have decided on cutting down quantity in

the interest of quality, it is perfectly fine with me as long as you do not join

the ranks of the 'totally silent majority'.

 

Regards,

Venkat

 

 

 

Benjamin Root <orion777ben wrote:

 

For the last time: Why do I care so much? Because the truth must be

ONE for it to be truth at all. And emptiness is indeed only another

word for Pure Consciousness ... empty of impurities! So much

nonsense has been written about Buddhist atheism and nihilism. At

worst, it rejects Ishwara and jumps straight into Advaitin

consciousness.

 

 

 

 

 

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