What is Truth?

 

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What is Truth?

When one is faced with the question – “What is truth?” one realises that the questioner is not really interested in knowing the truth at all! In spirituality every seeker is looking for the answer to his/her own existence – to find their own ultimate truth! Anyone who asks this question is really not interested in knowing the truth, simply because such person feels that there is no real answer.

In the end if we don’t find an answer, we try to blame others for our lack of knowledge. This is inner knowledge and one cannot get it from any book or religious text. One needs to be honest, be sincere, be direct without bringing unknown people into the question. We ourselves have to ask the question – the question has to be ours and only ours. When one is looking for the ultimate truth, one cannot get an answer from anyone else, the inner self provides the answer.

Then, how does one find the inner self – that’s the next question. The seeker has been looking for his/her own ultimate truth since time immemorial – we have taken several births and forms to reach this stage where the enquiry can now be made.

This question itself is so profound – and we ask it in such ignorance, in such a silly manner – all this simply because of our own unawareness, unconsciousness. We don’t know what we are saying, what we are doing; we don’t know what we are asking and why we are asking.

If we go deep within ourselves and ask this question – the only answer we get is silence, and that is the real truth. Truth is something to be experienced, it cannot be described, it cannot be put into words – the attempt to do so brings the ‘I’ factor into the equation and the answer one is seeking fades away.

“Truth is not. We are a creation of truth,” said Osho. The perception of truth is something that we create in our minds – the real truth can only be experienced by realising the soul. We are not the body, we are not the mind – we are the eternal soul, once we realise that and experience it, then we ‘know’ the truth of our existence.

All else is just words and our perception of the truth. In the material world my truth can be someone else’s lie – so how can this be the truth? If one is really interested in knowing the path to find the truth – then meditation under the guidance of a realised Master is the way. Be silent — because truth is our innermost property, our own treasure: not the kingdom of God somewhere else in the heavens, but the kingdom of God within us just now, throbbing, pulsating — our heartbeat.

It is here, but we are not here. We have to be brought back home. We have gone too far away from ourself. Perhaps we have got lost and we don’t know how to come back home. Perhaps we are standing in front of our home, but we cannot remember that this is our home.