TRUTH—AN ANALYSIS

In this world, whatever man believes upon, he does it in an absolute sense. This is human nature. If man is not able to decipher a thing in its absolute sense, then he continues his research until he has discovered it. even a single day. Man takes his mother, his wife, and his children in an absolute sense—the very survival of the family system is based upon this. In its absence, the entire system of human life would be shattered. Similarly, man considers his belongings like his house, his business and his bank balance, to be absolute. If he did not think like this, his economic life would never take shape. In such a situation, it would be an exception to consider that truth is not absolute. It would mean that in an absolute world truth has a non-absolute existence. But, there is no logical basis for accepting this concept. It is incomprehensible to believe that in this vast universe, where everything else is in its absolute sense, truth, as an exception to this rule, is not in its absolute form. This would be a contradiction in logical terms and would never be acceptable to thinking people. This is not a simple matter. Upon reflection, we find that man has a dual existence—body, and mind. Except for truth, everything caters to fulfilling the physical needs of man. Truth is the only thing that man requires for fulfilling his spiritual needs. Now, it is inconceivable that all objects of fulfilment of our physical needs are in their absolute form while truth, that fulfils our spiritual needs, is not absolute. To accept this division we would have to admit that there is a big contradiction in this world, that the objects of our material needs are available here in an absolute form while the objects of our spiritual needs are, by way of an exception, not available here in an absolute form. Truth is the biggest requirement of man. Without it, man is totally incomplete. The truth is that the denial of truth as absolute is akin to mental suicide. Those who hold this belief are not serious in their utterance. Refusing to accept the truth in its absolute form is similar to refusing to accept one’s mother in the absolute form. Another possibility is that nothing is true, that truth is something different altogether, or that truth has no existence. This kind of thought is without doubt an intellectual luxury that no serious man can afford to indulge in. On a serious note, a person can, however, say that he has not found the truth, or that he is just a seeker. But no serious man can say that