Friday, December 23, 2011

What Truth? [Ishavasya Upanishad]

Truth? There is no 'Truth' as we know it.

'Pure abstraction' and such mesmarising ideas, what are they, if not cleaver wordplay masking the ignorance of misunderstood categories of thought?

The mystery within ias the mystery without.

Reason is but just one faculty in the arsenal of possibilities. Mind, but just an organ in the experience of being.

The best knowledge is at best the briefest signpost. The Upanishad which is one of the shortest, but has the highest number of commentary to it, says it all, thus:


[Go here for the Sanskrit text of īśāvāsya upaniṣad.]