Man’s Search for Truth

Religion remains the only place where the answers to questions about Truth can be discovered. Almost everyone who has come into this world asks himself: “Who am I?” This question is present in the mind of almost every person, whether consciously or otherwise. Across the globe, for centuries, great minds have been searching for an answer to this fundamental existential question. The history of human thought is, directly or indirectly, another name for the search for the answer to this question. In some way or another, every person seeks to know the answer to this question and other fundamental questions, such as: What is man? How did man come into being? What is the purpose of human life? What is Truth, and what is falsehood? Where does a man go after death? Existential questions like these are called ‘the search for truth.’ Moreover, the search for Truth has been the biggest concern for man for centuries. Among those who sought answers to these questions was a class of people known as the philosophers. However, despite thousands of years of effort, the philosophers could not arrive at any satisfactory answer to these questions. As a result, philosophy became a discipline of only intellectual debates, dissensions, and conflicts. Likewise, in the field of spirituality, people tried to reflect on these fundamental questions of life. However, they, too, met the same fate as that of philosophers. The primary reason for this was that the spiritualists sought Truth through meditation in ‘the world of the heart.’ However, they could obtain no success in this regard. The simple reason behind this is that the heart is