What is TRUTH?

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What is " TRUTH " ?

 

Truth is of 3 kinds. (1) personal or social †" vaiyaktika or sAmUhya

 

(2) vyAvahArika (3) Eternal or ultimate †" pAramArthik satya.

 

Some examples to define

 

I am living in a village where there is a man who is having 6 ft and

 

11 inches. I have seen him, I know him. According to me it is a truth.

 

I have not seen anybody else so far who is having more than 6 ft 11

 

inch.

 

One day I had a guest from far off. During discussions, he mentioned

 

that in his place there is a man having 7 ft and 2 inches. I went with

 

him and seen that man. It is a truth.

 

Now, the first truth is my experience so far but when I am convinced

 

that there are people more than 6 ft 11 inch, the personal truth

 

became untruth and the social truth became correct. Both are correct

 

in its level but it is not the ultimate truth. It is vyAvahArik truth

 

only. The ultimate truth is called sat or essence.

 

Let us see another example : It is true that the three angles of a

 

triangle is 180 deg. This is accepted universally (vyAvahArik) .

 

But when I had the inquisitiveness to find out the fact in it, I put a bowl

upside down like this ∩ and drew the triangle on it. I found it more than 180

deg. Now the earlier truth became untrue. My

 

inquisitiveness did not end there. I felt that it is not fully true. I put that

bowl in this pose U and drew the diagram inside the bowl.

 

Then I found that the total of three angles is less than 180 deg. It

 

is thus all are true or none is true.

 

Another example we can see -

In the 8th and 9th class in physics, the teacher will teach you that

 

light is traveling STRAIGHT line. This is fact, accepted by all.

 

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When the student reaches plus one and plus two, the same teacher will

 

teach the same students that the light is traveling in WAVES form.

 

 

 

When the student reaches in the university level, the teacher will

 

teach that the light is traveling in quantum form. The light gets bend

 

when it touches on a dense surface. (This we can see when we light the

 

torch to water in a pot or pond or to a glass.) Also the speed of

 

light reduces.

 

 

So in the third one, not only that the light is in the form of

 

particles (photons) and when it touches to a dense surface, it gets

 

bend. The speed also reduces. When it travels through space, the speed

 

is more as there are no matter in the space. These are only some

 

scientific experiments based on some theories and formulas according

 

to the thoughts developed in one’s mind.

 

All the forms of study is correct. But it is not the truth. It is not

 

the essence. (No student has till today dared to ask the

 

teacher/scientists……why you are teaching the untruth…? .is altogether

 

a different story)

 

Another example : You have a man in your house, a lady in your house

 

(your father and mother). You have a guest in your house. You call the

 

lady as ‘mother’. We have been taught from childhood that we must

 

see/call all ladies as ‘mother’ and the word ‘mother’ is universal. If

that teaching is to be followed, you will call her as mother, your

 

guest will also call her as mother. But your father will not agree to

 

that and he will call her as ‘wife’. You will not agree to call your

 

younger sister as mother. I will not agree to call my daughter as

 

mother. Why it is so. So that is also not truth, though universal.

 

I am a person engaged in all sorts of illicit transactions/ business,

 

all false doings and deeds and do not stick to my words. I cheat

 

everybody, I tell lie to my children, to my family members and all

 

others. But I expect my family members to tell me truth, all my office staff to

be truthful to me and rest of the world to be truthful to me.

 

Why this kind of thoughts, is because, the ultimate truth is inside me and I

like that force.

 

We may say that what I saw, it is true. This is not acceptable because those who

are blind they also see. All those who have ear are not able to hear. All those

who have tongue are not able to speak. Is it that all the blind, duff and dump

whatever they experience are untrue…? No.

 

The inquisitiveness to be developed to find out that power which gives force to

the senses to see, to hear, to taste, to smell, who is that ?

 

who is that supreme power..? That is the ultimate truth … pAramArthik

 

satya.

 

Truth is that which never changes, which is constant, which is not

 

subject to any kind of evolution or revolution. Truth is not a thing

 

which is to be derived from debates, speeches, professings, books,

 

writings or any worldly things. It is a matter of realization, it is a matter of

self experiencing. It can neither be qualified nor be

 

quantified nor it can be given any definition, any shape or any

 

explanation. Words or sounds never reaches there, eye sight cannot

 

recognize it, thoughts cannot reach there nor the tongues can taste

 

it. It is beyond senses. It is to be experienced.

 

I should ask myself that how I am able to see the objects outside me.

 

What, as a sAdhaka, one should try to see is that what is the ultimate truth,

what is that thing which is having the essence. That with essence is the

ultimate truth.