Absolute Truth! is it unknown? or Unknowable ? why?

Question

and Absolute Truth may not be truth of religions only...it can be of science too

Answer 1

Absolute truth is unknowable if you restrict the concept of knowledge to purely rational, objective understanding. But if we admit a broader sense of understanding, then I believe we can understand absolute truth through a certain form of direct experience. This broader sense of understanding is necessarily "subjective" but NOT merely relative in the sense that each of use has our own point of view. I put the word "subjective" in scare quotes because in the light of absolute truth there are no individual, substantial subjects. In absolute truth there are no substances or subjects of any ordinary sort.

To makes sense of what I've just said, we need to understand a distinction between absolute truth and relative truth. Relative truth is still truth, but it is a limited truth based on individual perspectives. You might say it is a "everyday-world" sort of truth. From the perspective of relative truth, there really are subjects and objects; there really is an external world; there really are determinate true answers to many everyday questions. But these truths are limited because they are only true from the perspectives of ego-centered, "unenlightened" beings.

In contrast to relative truths, there is absolute truth. But beware: absolute truth is a weird duck. Absolute truth is the recognition of the impermanence and insubstantiality of all things. It is an understanding of the emptiness of Being, which means the mutual interdependence of all beings. Believe it or not, this all fits together. Here's how: According to our best models in physics, time, space, matter, and energy are all different manifestations of the same fundamental "stuff". This fundamental "stuff" is NOT just a collection of individual elementary particles. This fundamental "stuff" is basically just the vacuum of "empty space." Empty space is not mere nothingness, but is more like a very "pregnant void". The smaller bit of "empty space" you look at, the more energy it has. You might think of empty space as "pure energy" – which means it is the potential for all Being. Time, space, and matter all "melt" into this pure energy at the most fundamental level of Being. This is a purely indeterminate realm, which means that there are no particulars of any sort – no individual things, no distinct forces, no separate laws of nature, no distinguishable dimensions of reality.

What we know of as consciousness is an ego-centered form of experience that is dependent upon physical processes in our brains, but Being Itself is "experiential" in a deeper sense, and this experiential nature of Being is rooted in the infinite energy of the vacuum of physical space. This is "experience" that is not limited to any individual perspective and takes not determinate form – which is to say, there are no determinate contents of the experience. There are no distinct, identifiable properties of experience at this fundamental level – it is empty of distinguishable contents. When a person disengages their ego-based consciousness, while still "remaining conscious", they can dip into this realm of direct experience of Being. From the ego's perspective this is a paradoxical idea, but it basically amounts to falling into a deep, dreamless sleep while your conscious mind "stays awake" (which is what distinguishes this state from just ordinary dreamless sleep). In this mode of Being, a person can understand absolute truth, which basically means experience the Unity of Being.

Upon returning to ordinary waking life, the enlightened person generally expresses a feeling of unlimited compassion for all beings. Why compassion? Because this direct experience of absolute truth is an experience of the Unity, so the enlightened person deeply FEELS (not just intellectually believes) the meaning of the Oneness of Being, which means he or she FEELS in a sort of direct, absolute knowledge sort of way, the truth of the golden rule and karma. What we do unto others, we really and truly do unto ourselves. This is absolute truth, as best as it can be spoken from the limited perspective of a conscious ego. This is what the Buddha means by "being awake" and I would say it is what Jesus meant when he said "I and the Father are one."

Answer 2

A number of phenomena were known only after repeated experiments in science. The solution occurs to only one and not to all or many. subsequently thy were developed and refined in accordance with necessity and individuals intellectual capability. Still one dictum accepted as truth today is defied on another and a fresh dictum emerges. This is growth and to grow mean, to live. Change leads to near perfection.
The is nothing perfect except the natures order. The Almighty power. A few have understood it and expressed the way they could perceive. The sages say, if you approach the truth - sathya with your intellect, your ego will only be the forerunner.
Submit your intellect, all the five perceptions, the consciousness of existence, and, surrender in absolute term and squeeze your personality into nothingness then ponder over the inner calmness where perhaps you may observe the Brahma gnan. the Sathya.
Religious truth also is no different from scientific solutions

Answer 3

Truth is unknown - Yes it is. Once we discover the truth, we crave for the truth at higher levels. Finally, it always remains unknown.

Truth is unknowable - Not at all. But it's quite difficult to know the truth unless we are ready to know ourselves. Who am I? What am I supposed to do? What is the purpose of my life? These are few questions which may bring in a wide range of answers. But the fact is, the answers to these qurestions can only be understood by experience.

Who am I?
Help someone out and ask him about your identity - An unknown person sent by God to help me.

What am I supposed to do?
Help create harmony in the globe, respect others. You will experience a sense of ultimate satisfaction.

What is the purpose of my life?
Stick to your duties as a human being without asking yourself this question. Someday you would realize that your purpose is already served.

So finally I believe, to know the truth, we must make selfless contributions towards His creations. You would be able to experience the eternal bliss this way. Your search for truth would end here.

All the best...

:-)

Answer 4

If we something, then it is truth. If we don't know something, hen it cannot be truth. Truth is to be known and knowable. If we are not in knowledge of something, how can it be truth. Truth implies we know it. If it does not exist or if we do not know it where is the question of knowing it. The ignorant may not know it. But the person in KNOWLEDGE by definition KNOWS the Truth.

The Vedas say, Tamasi ma Jyotir gama, "Don't stay in darkness, but come to the light.

It is mentioned in the Srimad Bhagavatam(1.2.11),
"The Absolute Truth is realized in three phases of understanding by the knower of the Absolute Truth, and all of them are identical. Such phases of the Absolute Truth are expressed as Brahman, Paramatma, and Bhagavan."

Answer 5

Absolute truth is unknowable since our minds are limited in the amount of knowledge it can attain. The limitations on our minds are physiological, since its capacity is not unlimited. That is why you can have a person who is really smart in mathematics and ignorant to other things as scientific reasoning. Our brains are hard wire this way.

Answer 6

“What is Truth?” asked Pilate of one who, if the claims of the Christian Church are even approximately correct, must have known it. But He kept silent. And the truth which He did not divulge, remained unrevealed, for his later followers as much as for the Roman Governor. The silence of Jesus, however, on this and other occasions, does not prevent his present followers from acting as though they had received the ultimate and absolute Truth itself; and from ignoring the fact that only such Words of Wisdom had been given to them as contained a share of the truth, itself concealed in parables and dark, though beautiful, sayings.

This policy led gradually to dogmatism and assertion. Dogmatism in churches, dogmatism in science, dogmatism everywhere. The possible truths, hazily perceived in the world of abstraction, like those inferred from observation and experiment in the world of matter, are forced upon the profane multitudes, too busy to think for themselves, under the form of Divine revelation and Scientific authority. But the same question stands open from the days of Socrates and Pilate down to our own age of wholesale negation: is there such a thing as absolute truth in the hands of any one party or man? Reason answers, “there cannot be.” There is no room for absolute truth upon any subject whatsoever, in a world as finite and conditioned as man is himself. But there are relative truths, and we have to make the best we can of them.

Answer 7

Absolute truth is a state.

Answer 8

Well it's unknown for sure, but unknowable is an interesting question. We have answered many questions over the last 200 years and continue to do so.

Answer 9

absolute truth could be known only when you will merge with the God .science can invent relative things, absolutes things in the science are assumed or imagined

Answer 10

Though we are rooted in the Divine, our own consciousness is limited - therefor we cannot know All. Absolute Truth implies omniscience.