Monday, November 24, 2008

What is truth?

This question has been "truthfully" :-) bothering me for a while now. Everyting I hear a discourse from a Guru, or read some self help books, they talk about living in truth. So what is it like to live in truth?

Truth is what is and not what we interpret it to be. I know it sounds obvious, but this was a moment of revelation and realisation for me today. Most of the time we continuously interpret what we see, feel and hear. We color the "truth" with our past experience OR what we would like it to be in future and present it. Thats a lie and will always remain one.

In one of our review meetings, a similar thing happened today while presenting the numbers related to the funtioning of one of our departments(unconsciously I would hope). One of friends once said that "numbers never lie" and this is the "truth" if the numbers are presented as they are. Thats what I mean by seeing what is. If the numbers are colored by a desire to be seen as good, then we could go on a totally wild goose chase.

Put another way, all of us should be on the lookout for always trying to bring out the "truth" way past the interpretation of it as anybody sees it.

If we color the "truth" by our past experience and judgement, we are probably not realising the potential of the situation. If we color it by a future dream, we are probably not in acceptance of the situation as is. Stop applying adjectives to situations.

10 comments:

encantado said...

Dear Sunil,
I liked reading your blog, especially the thoughts on time is all we come with! BTW, is this the RSVK Siddha Samadhi Yoga you talk about? If yes, is it possible that you just remind me of the various 'mudras' in the pranayam? Thanks for this.

Anonymous said...

truth is always truth. truth seems like a lie, if there's no honesty with you. if someone is honest in front of you, you must accept it. you can't buy it. if you lose such people, thieves will be with you. truth brings forth truth. it doesn't play games with employees. you make late payments, abuse employees, play politics. all these are telling you the truth. i don't know what you're doing right now.

Anonymous said...

that's right. we had a toilet attached to big balcony where we used to have meetings on regular basis. one fine afternoon a fellow went to toilet. somehow he managed to come out using 2-3 mugs of water, when there's no tap water. do you know what he ( blog writer ) did? it's funny, when bad smell came out of toilet. he ordered pizza immediately and called everyone to balcony to eat it while bad smell spreaded the room.

Anonymous said...

hi...... he not only mistreats employees and misuses them. he doesn't trust any employee. he keeps an evil eye on them and pays attention to liars.

Anonymous said...

he used to make fun of them.

Anonymous said...

yaa right, he treats employees like animals.

Anonymous said...

if he keeps grudge on anyone, he follows them like a mad dog. he tortures employees mentally. he abuses them.....

Anonymous said...

i thought he is a good man.....

Anonymous said...

i got a dream while sleeping. sunil just passed by me on road. my conscience is telling me that i've commented him in his blog. now i'd like to say 'sorry' to sunil for posting all anonymous comments above. i'm doing this for the sake of christ.

Anonymous said...

i'm sorry, sunil.