Search for the Supreme Reality

SEARCH FOR THE SUPREME REALITY The history of the philosophical pursuit of God goes back to ancient Greece. In terms of its actual reality, philosophy is the search for the Creator. However, philosophy could never succeed in discovering God. The subject matter of philosophy is Existence. It studies general and fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. This is, as it were, an ‘external description’ of the subject matter of philosophy. However, in terms of its reality, philosophy is but another name for the search for the Supreme Reality or Truth, or, in other words, God. All philosophers were engaged, in some way or the other, in search of the Ultimate Truth. However, no philosopher was able to succeed in his quest. Failure of the Philosophical Search The case of all philosophers was the same—that is, they set out on the search for Reality. All philosophers sought to know the Truth through the path of knowledge. However, experience tells us that every philosopher failed in this regard. Let us take the case of one of the most well-known philosophers of modern times, the British scholar Bertrand Russell (1872-1970). One of his biographers has written that he was a ‘philosopher of no philosophy’. Despite studying for much of his life, Russell failed to discover