Namaste!
After a long time, this page is
going to see some activity. It had been a dry spell and a lot of things have
happened. No, I was not busy. I had numerous thoughts and ideas that I had penned
down to write them here. But there is always a sense of such things sounding
irrelevant and obscure to a greater mass. Though a following of some tens of
people may not be considered big, I do sincerely consider it to be more than
what I had ever expected. Let’s be realistic, no one likes to read about the
thoughts of a layman by taking pains to visit his blog and read through his tedious
writing. But that is an option available to the audience whether or not they
choose to participate, but not to the mind which is responsible for exhibition
of those thoughts. Throughout this entire dormant state, I have been travelling
places all over the virtual world. With an increasing curiosity in the idea of
deep web, I had been in a state of continuous searching and researching about
the life and its versions, available to us on this very Earth. This particular post is one of the many ideas, my serious notes, about delimiting Truth.
Truth, like the Light, has always
fascinated me. When someone talks about a person telling truth, the thoughts
that come to my mind are about the perception of the listener/believer, the
point as well as frame of reference he stands and puts the speaker into, and
the force of acceptance, which the listener/believer wants. These were “my”
methods of listening to anything that was marketed as Truth and was sold for
monetary or spiritual or emotional benefits. It is definitely easy and reliable
to assume that The Truth can be
twisted and it might even lose its meaning when retold with some inconspicuous
lies but my question always was “Was this really The Truth or somebody just mirrored something, I expected to hear?” There will be umpteen
instances in our lives where one single sentence or even a single word or even
a mere Yes or No will be accepted easily as truth. Probably, that was what you
and I wanted to hear. It is simple science. The path of least resistance is
always chosen and preferred. And so are our perspectives, bounded with so many
assumptions and eternally denied limitations of ours. How can you tie your
hands and legs and still expect to swim into a vast ocean? So what do we do? We
make our own swimming pools and bath tubs and criticize the ocean for having a
thousand dangers. So, I tried to sort things and then jumbled them once again
about my thoughts on Truth. Yeah that’s right. We can’t leave things sorted
just because that sorting follows our logical mindset. We need to scramble them
a lot to generate different possibilities of our logic and its validity.
Truth, maybe, is like an
equation. An equation which may become more and more bizarre if you keep adding
variables to it. Now, one cannot keep adding a thousand Xs and Ys just to get
an answer. So we draw limits. We restrict our equation with several
assumptions. For Truth our assumptions are our memory, our physical prowess,
our senses, including the mysterious sixth sense and all the hidden ones about
whose existence, we are currently unaware but have somehow mingled amongst
these limitations. Now adding to these assumptions and limits, we
knowingly/unknowingly add our expectations. If I am having a hundred variables
to determine one particular Truth, I will try to, first of all, contain the
weirdness to my five senses. I will add a sixth sense factor which will give me
a let out if my version of Truth does not hold true. And at last, I will add my
expectation variable, which, actually, is a constant! Now think this. Am I
really going to find The Truth? Will
this method really work for all the possible scenarios and inconsistent
behaviors? Is this foolproof? Does this method have a variable that will be
able to limit the influence of my senses against knowing Truth? Will this
equation hold true even if the Expectation variable becomes redundant? And several
more questions which will lead to the similar discussion. Even two persons will
see a beggar differently. One may be using his senses to judge him of being a
true beggar deserving sympathy and help whereas the other person might dig deep
into his logical train and come up with an idea of the beggar being phony and
the antisocial purposes for which he might use the money. Which one of them is
right? Both? None? Did anyone of them dig deep enough to satisfy their
curiosity and coming up with ultimate Truth? No.
Am I going to offer a method to
know Truth? Absolutely, not. What I may offer is a thought of not following any
cults or religions for knowing Truth. Why add more limitations to our already
set limiting factors? They set up with an ideology or a path or a process which
it says to follow for knowing their versions of Truth. Much of the
religious philosophies are only as old as we humans are, still we fight for our
survival and existence. Keeping that thing in mind, one should adopt the
philosophy of viruses which have been in the Universe since the first molecule
came into existence. Aren’t they the ultimate Truth of survival? People who
follow science will get the point that there have been numerous incidents where
a well-established method is challenged and overthrown to pave way for more
accurate method, which in turn gives us more precise results. No one can offer
Truth or even a foolproof method of knowing it because it cannot simply exist.
There is nothing like an absolute Truth or an absolute Lie, unless we confine
ourselves with boundaries. Something that gives result, which may explain the
condition of that time, isn’t Truth. It is mere our logic. We need to accept
that we are definitely trying to refine our logic but it is nowhere near the
perfect Truth or even the perfect Logic, something that is infallible,
irrespective of space-time or the versions of Truth.
Religions and cults are
pathological and to some extent pathetic. They all tend to sermonize us to
restrict our lives in one way or the other to achieve The Truth. Does that mean that The
Truth is so condensed that it cannot remain valid under myriad conditions?
If that really is the definition of The
Truth, there is no point in wasting our time. Truth is out there somewhere,
with all the burden of our limitations!
Many of my points might be
arguable and won’t be coming up easy with most of us. We all have been taught
how to “know” The Truth ultimately
by a bunch of people whose knowledge is impeccable on the literature which
profoundly restricts our thinking. That is really amazing and depressing at the
same time. But there cannot be achieving without refining, isn’t it? Who said
that this write-up is The Truth?
Comments, thoughts and criticism awaited.
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by
any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
*Going Offline*
*Dump*
