Meeting the ultimate

Dr Sudhansu Dash

When one is really honest oneself, not even doing the slightest injustice to one’s own, one can understand that an idea about truth stands as the greatest obstacle on the way to know the truth. An idea is always a borrowed one and one should not be illusioned of an idea to be one’s own. If one thinks of that the idea is one’s own, one should be sure of the fact that it is the outcome of the mind which is a bundle of ideas that a man has inherited from the other in a society. The root is false because an idea is false. Truth is that what one faces moment to moment with a un- pre-occupied mind. Even the idea about the permanency of truth is false because it is an idea. It is our interpretation about truth but truth is never open to any interpretation. An interpretation simply corrupts the thing and we fail to see what ‘is’. mind can ever see the truth and the absence if the mind is the real vision of it where there is no idea , no interpretation but only the knowing. Millions and millions of interpretation have been made on truth   it may be infinite in number but false. Truth is the presence in the absence of all falsifications whatever attractive they might be.

Truth was never said, is never said, can ever be said. All scriptures speak about truth, go on talking about and about but no scripture has yet  been capable to express it. Neither the Vedas nor the Bible nor the Quran because it is impossible in the very nature of things to express it. It is not a thing to be said but to be shown. It cannot be logically proved through language. Where language fails , silence succeeds.

Truth is the absence of a presence. It is  a thing but present as a void, a nothingness.