2007-03-12 21:16:40 · 24 answers · asked by ۞Aum۞ 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I just love your q's....
To know the truth one must widen his own perspectives. He must be capable to look out of the globe.
Don't just read books, study them. Interpet them with not with respect to your personal views but with respect to global harmony. Yo uwill definitely get closer to truth.
When it comes to direct experiences, I still don't think they are the right way to truth. Becuase we are the ones who finally interpret these experiences. What if I am a bit conservative? My direct experience with an outgoing person would imply that he is on the wrong path of life. To me that would be the truth becuase I am not able to look at the matter with a wider perspective.
So finally, identifying our own conscience is the right way to truth. The better you can communicate with it, the closer the truth is.
All the best....
2007-03-12 21:47:40 · answer #1 · answered by plato's ghost 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The right way to know the Truth is through the Book & the Prophet. It is to be tested with direct experiences to confirm its truth.
2007-03-13 16:28:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Vedas teach that there are three ways to know the truth.
1. Pratyaksa - Direct experience
2. Anumana - Hypothesis
3. Sruti - Hearing
Vedas show the defects of the first two processes due to the four inherent defects in the ordinary mortals, viz.,
1) brahma (to be illusioned),
2) pramada (tendency to comit mistakes),
3) vipralipsa (cheating propensity) and
4) karnapata (imperfect senses).
Therefore, the Sruti or hearing from the revealed scriptures and saintly persons which are above the four defects are the ways to know the truth.
2007-03-14 04:32:00 · answer #3 · answered by Gaura 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One can only know the truth by direct experience. That's what wrong with most everyone, they read something, "believe" it to be the truth and pass it on. Very sad. Though books & prophets can point to the truth, one needs to know the truth for themselves. The truth is avalable to all, but know this, to be content with a "belief" is to block the truth of yourself. I have a feeling you already know this. Good question.
2007-03-13 22:14:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The right way to know the truth is by Direct Experience and right search.
2007-03-13 11:08:55 · answer #5 · answered by ashka 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have been questioned it in different way but in my opinion first criteria is personal experience and if we are not able to take such experience than we rely on sources the best sources and the sources of sources I mean if any one tell about prophet that he did it personally first we will see that who is narrator if narrator is not been closed to prophet than it can be suspicious narrating, other ways are to judge quote on our analysis and judge it on facts and think that is it applicable on human life if it is than we will go through it but here is some confusion that the people who were at that time when they were taking the personally at that time so why they fail to judge truth and other accepted that as truth so I think the personal experience in such situation is not help full, may be we have no such abilities to judge. (Hope you will get my point and as well as my confusion some time I fell very frustrated when I feel that I am fail to describe my thought because I admit that I am weak to use English as my expression ) so in short I will just say that sources are very important in our religion you will find lots of misquoting and misguiding as narrator abu huraira mostly hadith this man narratod wrong I really unable to fail why they don’t take sources from the faimly of prophet who know very well all about prophet.
Now concluding it that we must the statement on human life if its useful for human and not harming and giving best benefits and matching human nature this is truth either its from prophet or books or personal experience
2007-03-14 03:52:21 · answer #6 · answered by Akmal Zaidi 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Through direct experience......the books and prophets can then help a person to better articulate to others the direct experience they had/have.
2007-03-13 04:23:43 · answer #7 · answered by gabriel_zachary 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Truth or the ultimate knowledge cannot be experienced through reading , writing or by serving prophets . All these may help to attain the truth.
But like swimming , cycling , one has to attain that efficiency to know the real joy and pangs of learning to swim or cycle.
No amount of reading can make you an expert in these experiences.
2007-03-13 07:50:45 · answer #8 · answered by ssen1232006 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Direct experience.
2007-03-13 04:21:50 · answer #9 · answered by Erin 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is possible only by direct experience.
Books and listening to speeches will only help in making the way smooth. Particularly the biographies of great saints like Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Ramana Maharshi etc narrate their experiences and also the obstacles they came across.Reading such books will help one to correct himself to remain on right track.
There is one famous book called Siddhartha written by a German philosopher. In this book the boy Siddhartha when he met Gautama Buddha requests him to explain the state of self actualisation for which Buddha replies that the state had to be experienced by oneself but can not be explained.
2007-03-13 08:29:31 · answer #10 · answered by ravipati 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋