What is the Truth? There's a story I've heard a couple of times that goes something like this...
Five blind men were lead to an elephant and asked to describe it. The man standing near the elephant's trunk touched it and said, "The elephant is long and flexible." The man standing near one of the elephant's legs felt it and said, "The elephant is round and strong like the trunk of the tree." And, as you might imagine, the men that felt the tusks, ears and tail each had very different impressions.
So, let me ask you, were the blind men telling the truth? How can five people say completely different things about the same animal and still be telling the truth? Is one of them wrong? Misguided? In error? Is one of them right and the others wrong? After all, there is only one elephant.
We each live in physical bodies and most of us view the world through the lens of our own experience which is filtered through the senses. And, it therefore stands to reason, that we each experience "the truth" through a certain perspective which has its limitations. Let me illustrate this a different way...
A long time ago, a Jewish man explained to me that "the Torah does not contain facts, it tells the Truth". I get what he meant. I believe that there is a difference between facts and the Truth. Babaji, Krishna, the Buddha, Christ. It's a way of describing a state of consciousness.
What is the difference between the truth and THE Truth? The Truth is a higher state of consciousness. And what is your truth? I can assure you that I have absolutely no idea. I am working with my own set of filters. Only you know what your truth is. You and no one else. And how do we move from our truth to reach the Truth? We meditate. Meditation allows us to experience Life without the filters.
Shanti,
S.
Five blind men were lead to an elephant and asked to describe it. The man standing near the elephant's trunk touched it and said, "The elephant is long and flexible." The man standing near one of the elephant's legs felt it and said, "The elephant is round and strong like the trunk of the tree." And, as you might imagine, the men that felt the tusks, ears and tail each had very different impressions.
So, let me ask you, were the blind men telling the truth? How can five people say completely different things about the same animal and still be telling the truth? Is one of them wrong? Misguided? In error? Is one of them right and the others wrong? After all, there is only one elephant.
We each live in physical bodies and most of us view the world through the lens of our own experience which is filtered through the senses. And, it therefore stands to reason, that we each experience "the truth" through a certain perspective which has its limitations. Let me illustrate this a different way...
A long time ago, a Jewish man explained to me that "the Torah does not contain facts, it tells the Truth". I get what he meant. I believe that there is a difference between facts and the Truth. Babaji, Krishna, the Buddha, Christ. It's a way of describing a state of consciousness.
What is the difference between the truth and THE Truth? The Truth is a higher state of consciousness. And what is your truth? I can assure you that I have absolutely no idea. I am working with my own set of filters. Only you know what your truth is. You and no one else. And how do we move from our truth to reach the Truth? We meditate. Meditation allows us to experience Life without the filters.
Shanti,
S.
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