My Friend: One who wants to know the truth has to be completely deprogrammed . He should not have any belief , religion , nation or race .... From there, with that innocence , like a child , he has to start. -Osho.
Me: Isn't that where we all started from already?
My Friend: We were programmed (conditioned) involuntarily by parents , society teachers etc .Now consciously shed & unlearn your beliefs with full awareness .
Me: It is impossible to stay neutral.... To generally say we all were conditioned us not correct IMO.... Haven't or beliefs changed over the years.... Haven't we questioned the society and our parents at various points of time..... Also truth is nothing but a perception, a point of view..... For different people there will always be different perceptions and different truths.....
My Friend: it might be possible for you. But for many they are not able to come out of the conditioning. The message is for them. To start from scratch , to enable wisdom to dawn and to come out of all cultism or organized religion or theism etc.
Now this discussion on Facebook is what has prompted this Blog. I initially wanted to reply with a comment in that discussion but knowing its futile and look childish to the other person and with a insurmountable urge to get my words out, put it out here in the blog.
The Truth, The Elusive Truth. This is one journey, one voyage which doesn't seem to end for the human race. Generation after Generation this is one search which never ends and almost everybody keeps pursuing it. So lets start with the most basic question.
What is Truth?
Let's say a Mr. A kills other Mr. B. That is a fact & we are most likely to term Mr. A as murderer and feel sorry for Mr.B, but what in this case Mr. B died here in self-defense & he was the one who was actually trying to kill Mr. A. Do the tables turn now? So what is Truth? Just the knowledge of the final incident or the knowledge of the complete chain of events? Even when we have the knowledge of complete chain of events, all we have are just facts, Truth is the ability to assimilate that knowledge and make sense of it.
As osho says, to know the truth, one needs to be completely deprogrammed and not have any beliefs. In a age when there was no communication, there was no religion, no beliefs, no ration, no race, no nothing. Human just considered himself just a kind of Animal in many. It was completely ok (and I guess even necessary in some parts of the world) to kill another animal for food, for its skin or for any use he deemed fit.
Today we have organisations & nations which ban killing of certain species because they are on the verge of extinction. Hindu Religion considers cows sacred and ban killing of it. Jain Religion considers even a accidental killing of even an Ant a sin. It is believed Mr. Einstein said that if Earth becomes devoid of Bees, humans wont live for more than 4 Years. Now for a person with no beliefs, Religion, nation, it is perfectly ok to keep on killing all those animals he is not to. But is it really so? Is it the truth that it is ok to kill endangered species? Is it ok to kill all the bees on this planet? I am not even divulging into religion(somehow talking about religion has become a taboo in the modern society). You may call all that killing to be truth but that certainly ain't wisdom.
As I explained before, Truth is not just some particular isolated incident but a knowledge of a complete chain of events and the ability to assimilate it all and be able to make a sense out of it. In my little time on this earth what I have learnt is every facet is multi-dimensional & it is just not possible for anybody to see a event in all its possible dimensions.
As in the above example of Mr. A & Mr. B as the new fact added our perception/view regarding the event changed, so as we keep getting new information about the history related to the incident our perceptions can keep changing and we might reach to a point where we start doubting the information or our ability to process all the intrinsic connections and our possibility to weigh everything correctly. Just to turn the tables I will just add one more information to the story, what if Mr. B was attacking Mr. A because Mr. A was a terrorist?
Certainly there would have been some enlightened souls who walked on this ground and some may be here still, who have the knowledge of everything and the sight to see things in all their dimensions.
For us all, all the lesser mortals I would borrow a phrase from Shiva Trilogy of Mr. Amish Tripathi
" There is my truth & there is your truth, as for the universal truth, it does not exist."
