![]() WHAT IS TRUTH? This is a question which puzzled or inspired many and swept away thinkers, idealists, philosophers reformers etc. Some of them simply threw away their properties, wealth, status etc., when they got immersed in their 'deep' thoughts to find solutions for widespread miseries, sufferings, poverty, diseases, inequalities, cruelty, war etc. Those who succeeded in their deep pursuits put forward new philosophies, idealogies, codes of life or 'dharmas' or instituted new nations, religions, academies etc. ( This is not to discredit or ignore millions of ordinary, familial persons who follow WELL some traditionally established 'codes of life' and have no time and energy to ponder deep into the fundamental or philosophical bases of their daily lives). See some of these ' tall' persons' conclusions about truth. " God alone is truth and everything else is transitory and illusory", Mohandas K. Gandhi; "truth is mighty and will prevail" , Thomas Brooks; "man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors", Aldous Huxley; "if you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through, it will blow up everything in its way ", Emile Zola ; "truth is higher than everything, higher still is true living", Japji; "a search after God is indeed an inquiry after Highest Truth or Good", G.V.Desani; "as for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truely significant" A. Einstein; "an independent, nonparty science is impossible; the truth is whatever leads to success and practice alone constitutes the criterion of truth", Karl Marx ; "we must know the truth to act wisely, and truth comes from physical reality", Heisenberg W. ![]() So there is no universally agreed answer for the question, 'what is truth'. The differences are interpretational due to beliefs, ideologies and religions. This is because all the thinkers or searchers were conditioned to different degrees by their sects, cultures, schools of thought etc. Only persons who could strip themselves out of all their cultural, professional, national,.... outfits, achieved global or universal solutions or answers. Now with all these philosophical or ideological differences of opinions, what an ordinay person or intellectual should consider as 'truth', without any doubt? See what is displayed in the 'home page' . What is truth? What is true is truth What is true? That tree is true. A tree as a tree would be agreeable as real, physical and true to ALL who see it, touch it, smell it, ................ . No ambiguity of any sort. Similarly, a stone, a dog, a flower, a house, a mountain etc. With the background of first 3 paragraphs I can add, Not what the mystics mystify, Not what the philosophers philosophize, Not what the scientists thoerise, Only what you see, hear, touch,..... and Experience and experiment and verify. Because mystifying, philosophizing and theorising are dependent, to different degrees, on one's own beliefs, experiences, analyses, interpretations, etc. See, what is attributed to Goutam Buddha(prince, sannyasi, philosopher and enlightener), who is thought to have lived about 2500 years back. " Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense". No better words of intelligence were said about beliefs during the last more than 2000 years, perhaps? What should be the dominating or controlling role of reason and common sense in dealing with things of belief in day-to-day life is very clear. Click here for " What are myths. " ![]() Site Map Home |