2007-05-04 07:16:12 · 41 answers · asked by ۞Aum۞ 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thou Art That! Namaste.
2007-05-04 22:59:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
What I strongly believe could be absolute truth for me. But it may be different in your case. However I uderstand the absolute truthg that you are talking about. The universal fact, the undefying, undeniable, unexplainable, fact that has created this universe.
Let us ask ourselves a few questions before trying to find out the absolute truth:
1> Am I a human being?
2> What makes me a human being?
3> If I have the power to think, communicate, modify the environment, understand the working of the ecology, how could I use these powers positively?
4> We have the power of knowledge. We use it in a repulsive manner (oppose other's opinions). Is that what knowledge is meant for?
5> Is there a positive way to use this knowledge?
6> If from nothing I came, and nothing I would be at the end, and I am offerred this opportunity to fill in 'something' into my life cycle, what that 'something' should be?
7> Why do we always question ourselves while doing anything rightful and give stupid explanations while violating moral codes?
8> Why do we ignore the good thoughts taht come into our mind, and nurture the bad ones?
9> Do we have the right to set the margin of error for ourselves? (Most of the individuals usually set their own margins saying, "This much wrong is ok! Atleast I didn't go as far as murder.")
10> Has questioning the existence of God, ever ever helped anyone? If it has, then in what manner?
Find these petty truths before you could follow the pathway to absolute truth. It's kind of a qualification round.
All the best...
:-)
2007-05-06 18:27:29 · answer #2 · answered by plato's ghost 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To me, Absolute Truth is eternal truth - Truths that can't be changed, and will continue to exist whether we believe in them or not. They are the laws by which the universe is governed, and which Divine beings live by in completeness.
The search for eternal truth is ongoing... no-one knows it all, and even that which I do know is inclined to evolve into something deeper. I wouldn't say that I KNOW Absolute Truth (full stop), but I would say that I am connected to it, and one day I will be full of eternal truth.... I just keep growing.
I think perhaps words are insufficient to really describe eternal truths (or Absolute Truths) to other people. We use words to teach and to learn, but patience will always be needed. I have found that as I grow older, and have more experience, I see that most often what people fight over is just words, and the fundamental truths behind the words are the same.
2007-05-06 09:04:37 · answer #3 · answered by MumOf5 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What is absolute truth? Well, gosh, that's a really tricky one. I would have to say...truth that is absolute.
But of course absolute truth is shorter.
Absolute: Not to be doubted or questioned; positive: absolute proof
Truth: The quality of being near to the correct value; A fact that has been verified
2007-05-04 09:30:03 · answer #4 · answered by Cosmodious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no Absolute truth. Truth is a perception, and differs with each person doing the perceiving.
And that's the truth!
2007-05-06 14:50:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What we percieve as truth is highly subjective. It is a subject of phylosophical debate that I feel remains unresoved. Truth in some sense can only be a general statement, or agreement, that something is acknowledged with a relative degree of consensous and or with 'authority'. Experience or hierachy dictate authority. One can state a personal truth but one may not have authority as seen in the eyes of the larger whole or the group.
Does one or the other have an inside edge on truth? No. What we understand as truth is nothing but the shifting sands of our limited perception. Perhaps this is why so many people choose to take the easy way out and hand it over to their religion to provide comfort and stability.
Peace and love to all.
2007-05-06 04:32:17 · answer #6 · answered by Jamie 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Definitions of absolute truth on the Web:
Actual truth perceived without one's mental obscurations and fabrications.
www.bodhipath-west.org/glossary.htm
Absolute truth can be interpreted in different ways based on its usage, just like truth. Some believe that the correct communication cannot be found fordescribing ideas of absolute truth by entities that possess the metaphysicallytrue state of the ability to lie and have lied before, thus making the followingdescription vulnerable to potential inaccuracy as long as those entitiesmaintain the definition.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_truth
2007-05-04 08:16:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes Krishna Says He is the Absolute Truth The Source of everything, everything emanates from Him. All other incarnations are His expansions. He is the Supreme Soul or the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the Super Soul. The All attractive one without a second. Krishna is His original Name and form but He has unlimited names such as Jehovah, Allah, Vishnu, etc. He has all Fame, all Beauty, All Strength, All Knowledge, All wealth, and all Renunciation. That is the Absolute Truth. Bhagavad Gita As it is By Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada- tells all about the Absolute Truth.That's the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me God. (Krishna)
2007-05-04 13:45:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
As a thinking person, however, you would do well to consider some pertinent questions. If truth were not attainable, why would Jesus Christ say: “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free”? And why would one of Jesus’ apostles say that God’s will is that “all sorts of men should be saved and come to an accurate knowledge of truth”? Why does the word “truth” occur over a hundred times in the Christian Greek Scriptures in connection with faith? Yes, why, if truth is unattainable?—John 8:32; 1 Timothy 2:3, 4.
Actually, Jesus not only pointed out that the truth is attainable but showed that finding it is required if our worship is to be approved by God. When a Samaritan woman wondered what the true form of worship was—the worship practiced by the Jews in Jerusalem or that practiced by the Samaritans on Mount Gerizim—Jesus did not answer by saying that truth is unattainable. Rather, he said: “True worshipers will worship the Father with spirit and truth, for, indeed, the Father is looking for suchlike ones to worship him. God is a Spirit, and those worshiping him must worship with spirit and truth.”—John 4:23, 24.
Many people claim, ‘The Bible can be interpreted in various ways, so one cannot possibly be sure of what truth is.’ But is the Bible really written in such a vague way that you cannot be certain how it is to be understood? Granted, certain prophetic and symbolic language may be difficult to grasp. For example, God told the prophet Daniel that his book, containing much prophetic language, was not to be completely understood until “the time of the end.” (Daniel 12:9) And it is evident that certain parables and symbols need to be interpreted.
It is clear, though, that as to basic Christian teachings and moral values essential to worship of God in truth, the Bible is very straightforward. It leaves no room for conflicting interpretations. In the letter to the Ephesians, Christian faith is spoken of as being “one,” showing that there were not to be several faiths. (Ephesians 4:4-6) Perhaps you may wonder, ‘If the Bible cannot rightly be interpreted in many different ways, why are there so many different “Christian” denominations?’ We find the answer if we look back to the time shortly after Jesus’ apostles had died and an apostasy from the true Christian faith had developed.
2007-05-04 07:25:01 · answer #9 · answered by jvitne 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
One cannot "know" the truth. The knowing cannot know itself, it is itself.
The "you" that seeks the truth, is the problem or the unconsciousness.
All manifested beings disguised as humans are both conscious and unconscious of the truth. When caught in thought and time, consciousness becomes unconscious or unaware of itself.
The reason we cannot realize the truth with thought, is that thought keeps us from it and trapped in time. When there is no past or future in thought, who are we?
We are the one consciousness and we know the truth.
The reason unconsciousness seems to dominate this existence, is that it makes so much noise that the mind focusses on a problem, a fear, or a hope, and then creates a memory or past.
When conscious arises, there is no thought, just pure experience, without judgement and labels. And it passes as quickly as it came.
Just like manifestation, on and off, on and off.
In consciousness, there is no thought or memory of its existence, because it does not exist as a thing.
Unconsciousness requires thought, creates time and therefor a past and rememberence.
While conscious, we cannot know thought, which would require rememberence, thought and time.
Therefor, we cannot know the truth, we are the truth, the one truth that pervades the entire universe of existence or manifestation.
Trying to find the truth with thought, is just mental exercises done by the unconscious self.
2007-05-06 04:40:50 · answer #10 · answered by cosmicaware1 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Absolute truth is known to absolute only
2007-05-05 03:42:49 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋