At peace....?

Question

If you have not found the TRUTH about that which is in the "existance of existance" (thereby not limiting it only to the physical dimension but to all that exists if it exists with or without our knowledge), can you truely say you have peace?

Can you truly continue living life, knowing that what you believe is only enough to satisfy the conscience and/or the intellect but if you were honest with yourself you cannot be 100% convinced that you have found the truth, can you then say that you have peace? That is true genuine, unwaivering, inexplicable peace?

Hoping in reincarnation and a second chance at life surely doesn't give anyone any peace, there is a struggle within that already, so given that we live once, can you truly be at peace apart from the truth?

Living in ignorance again surely doesn't give peace, avoiding the truth doesn't change it's existance or status as being true so I doubt you can say you have peace by being ignorant of the truth.

Therefore John B you are saying there is no absolute truth?

So would this be the only absolute truth that there is no absolute truth?

Do you believe in an absolute moral right and an absolute moral right? Or is everything subjective?

Like would child prostitution in some cases be right and in some cases be wrong? That is if there is no absolute moral law, therefore no absolute truth.

Answer 1

The joy of being ignorant is that you don't know you are. Check it out! Ask some people who are educationally challenged and they will all tell you that they "know enough". It's like the old idea that an insane person doesn't know they are insane, while if you wonder if you are insane or not, then you are not.

If a person is a true seeker then it's the search that matters. Once a person, any person arrives at "the Truth" they can be assured it's not the Truth at all. There is a certain darkness that surrounds the Truth and the closer we get to what we seek, the darker it becomes and the less sure we will be.

Answer 2

Maya (a poor translation is Divine Illusion) in Hinduism is what tries to answer these questions. Even when you realise you are under the spell of this divine illusion you are still in a glass oxygen chamber where you can see through but your life and environment remain within the chamber.
Everything is relative - yes even child prostitution, for there could be a more henious crime than it - or let us say more of the same crime.

Answer 3

There are so many factors to this question, and to your definition of peace, that we can never be at peace, as no one truley understands everything.
About reincarnation, and heaven, that is thought imposed upon most people of society. They need psychological backup to feel secure about their existence.
And due to society, we can never overcome this, unless we first overcome the useless love of power and control, which wonnt happen due to a handful of government hotheads.

Answer 4

An absolute reality exists.
For any reasonable discussion to take place, those involved must agree on certain things that cannot be proven. Both science and religion rest on unproven assumptions, some agreeable to both, some not. Premise 1 is generally accepted by both. It states, to put it simply, that reality is what it is. Reality is an objective fact, independent of our subjective beliefs. The statement “Everyone has their own reality” is incorrect. There is one reality, and the scientific method is just one way of trying to comprehend that reality.

True success in life comes only by understanding reality and our place within it.
Because we are part of an objective reality that encompasses everything, for us to wonder where we fit in is natural. Our human nature drives us to pursue happiness and success, but how can we achieve these things without understanding reality? Not seeing the whole picture, we may be inviting harm to ourselves and others. The mere fact that happiness seems so elusive inspires mankind’s perennial search for the meaning of life.

Science gives a limited picture of reality; abundant evidence suggests that part of reality exists beyond the reach of our senses and scientific instruments.
Generally speaking, the scientific quest as we know it today seeks to explain all of reality in terms of fundamental elements and forces and the laws that govern them. According to science, reality is simply matter and energy. Despite this belief, however, scientists have yet to explain convincingly the most important part of reality: consciousness, or the subjective experience of conscious awareness.
Science hypothesizes that the brain generates consciousness, but the brain is simply a complex machine, executing huge numbers of operations at every moment. Even if a computer could be programmed to mimic human behavior, there is no reason to believe that it will ever be conscious.
Besides consciousness, another aspect of reality that seems to elude scientific investigation and explanation is the realm of the paranormal. Credible experiments by scientists at places like Princeton University have shown that people can do things with their minds that contradict the laws of physics. (For example, with their thoughts, test subjects have been able to influence the output of a computer that generates random numbers.) And many people claim to have had out-of-body experiences, witnessed apparitions, accurately foretold the future, and experienced a number of other things that science can’t explain—and therefore refuses to accept.
The world seems to consist of more than the pushes and pulls of sub-atomic particles. To fill in the picture, we need to go to another source.

The scriptures of the world purport to reveal the spiritual aspect of reality, including God, the source of all existence.
We can’t expect our scientific instruments to detect things beyond matter. We need knowledge that comes from the other side. Billions of people accept revealed scripture as that kind of knowledge. God, who is “on the other side,” tells us who we are, why we’re here, what this world is, how to live here, how to relate to Him, and so on.
Our own efforts can take us only so far in understanding reality. Beyond the scientific method, we can pursue an internal mystical search through yoga and meditation, and that will get us closer to the truth. But even that endeavor has its limits. Because the Truth is infinitely greater than we are, we can know Him and all that He has created only when He reveals that knowledge to us.

God can reveal Himself to us and explain reality.
Some people contend that God is so great that He’s unknowable. But here’s another way of looking at it: Because God is great, He can find ways to make Himself known to us. We’ll never know Him in full, of course, but He has revealed an immense amount of information about Himself. All we have to do is take advantage of it.

God primarily reveals Himself through scripture, and the scriptures known as the Vedas contain a vast amount of knowledge about God and reality.
The Vedas are books of wisdom that have guided Indian civilization for millennia. While they deal with practically every field of knowledge, the theological and philosophical portions of the Vedas are extremely deep and comprehensive.

Among them, the Srimad-Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita provide the most focused explanation of God and reality.
A survey of the vast Vedic scriptures can be quite daunting. These books are meant to guide human civilization and therefore deal with numerous fields of knowledge. While much of the information may be irrelevant today (such as the intricate rituals of various sacrifices), the theological parts of the Vedas are as important as ever.
The Bhagavad-gita is the most concise compendium of Vedic philosophy. Most important, it not only establishes that God is a transcendental person; it reveals His identity. In our quest for knowledge of things beyond matter, we will find no better starting place than the Bhagavad-gita.
Where the Bhagavad-gita leaves off, the Srimad-Bhagavatam (or Bhagavata Purana) begins. Early in the book, the author, who edited and organized the Vedic library, is enjoined by his spiritual master to focus this book on the science of God. His masterful presentation is said to have been written when he reached spiritual maturity.
The Srimad-Bhagavatam rejects the temporary goals promoted in other Vedic books. It emphatically delivers the message that the perfection of life rests in constant union with God through acts of love and devotion.

Religion should be understood to mean, not faith, but our intrinsic nature and eternal relationship with God.
While reality is one, so also, rightly understood, is religion. Religion is not what we believe to be true. It is our actual relationship with God. Human life should be used to uncover that religion, which is everyone’s natural heritage.
Discovering that relationship is the goal of life, and it is possible by following time-tested, scientific spiritual principles under the guidance of the Vedas and self-realized souls.
The spiritual realm is not simply theoretical. The Vedas prescribe various processes by which one can get in touch with some aspect of the spiritual nature. The highest aspect of spirit is the personal form of God, an objective reality that one can directly perceive, provided one carefully follows the procedure for getting the result.
That procedure is the practice of Bhakti yoga, which must be conducted under the careful guidance of a master of the science of Bhakti. A sincere student receives the blessings of the teacher (guru), and of God Himself, and thereby progresses through higher and higher levels of perception. Attaining ever deeper states of love, the student finally attains pure love for God, which awards one His direct audience.