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welcome to transmissions most of you must be on a path of truth many of you
are seeking truth the spiritual quest is
about knowing the truth and fortunately if you take a look at in the current
situation most of the time we are told and what is true but we have never told
how it is true most of the seekers they
simply assume that if a guru is saying
that something is true then it has to be true and they kind of blindly assume the
truth of it this is no better than the
blind faith the truth cannot be told and yet everybody is trying to tell the
truth and everybody seems to know what is true what is false
if you are in the pursuit of truth then
it will become very necessary to know what is true what is not and it will
become very necessary to be certain of what you know so today we are going to
take a look at the truth and how to know
if what I know is really true or not in
other words how to know the truth how to be sure of it and a second question which is also very
important is that why do we need to know the truth
why is it so important when we are presented with a statement or an
experience we then to classify it into true or false and we do it mostly
because we need to take an action we take an action on that which we classify
as true so you can see immediately that
truth is a classification of statements a statement can be true or false if it
is both true then falls at the same time then it is the kind of meaningless
statement if it is not true and not false and it is indeterminate you cannot
really take it action on such statements so the classification is very hard we
need to draw very certain line between the true and false we cannot have the
gray area it has to be black and white and only then we are certain that we can
take an action on this statement if the fruits of the actions if the
consequences of these actions they turn out as desired then our confidence in
the truth grows we tend to take those actions again and again on the other
hand if our experience turns out to be
undesired when it is not as expected when we doubt the validity of the
statement then without the truth of the statement and will look for are the
means to categorize the statement so immediately we didn't get definition
of truth it is a categorization of statements where are two categories true
and not true they are mutually exclusive and we need to classify the statements
or experiences because there is a need to take an action usually your need is
related to survival nothing else but survival most of the time so we can
guess that the need to know the truth evolved due to the struggle for
existence that is meat to survive and that forced our minds to evolve a
strategy to find an optimal action which
fulfilled our needs and we call those experiences in those statements as true
statements so this is the definition this is my definition I am very sure
that you will find at least 20 more
definitions of the truth but I've done a little bit of research and it looks like
they are on circular they try to define the truth in terms of something which is
true and false it is not possible to do that we should not do that our survival
depends on true statements and that's why we need these kind of
classifications it has become our basic
human nature to know the truth if we
need to take an action we need to classify the experience as strict
and the question arises how to classify the statements classification is like
discrimination trying to find what goes
where and we try to find it using some criteria we we cannot classify an
experience or a statement if we do not have any criteria to classify how are we
going to classify based on what and therefore we need some criteria so we
can add this insight into a vertex petition that truth is a classification
of statements based on some criteria now
you can guess that if I change the criteria the truth or falsity of those
statements can be changed simply by changing the criteria although we do not
pay attention to these things only a seeker does because his need to know the
truth is very intense it is not like ordinary people we want to know the
truth and we want to be certain of the truth some people use very
commonsensical criteria to classify the statements such
as if I can see it if I if I can hear it if I can touch it then that thing exists
it is true if I cannot use my senses to
verify that it exists it is not true mostly it is either imaginary or just a
concept of some kind no way for me to verify to find an
evidence of proof of its truth if I cannot see it if I cannot grasp it in
any way I cannot perceive it in any way then probably it is not true this you
can easily relate to the basic survival because an organism needs to see an
organism needs to hear and only then the
organism takes an action so this criteria is directly related to survival
and he is being used by the so called materialistic people if they can touch
something if they can see something if they can measure of something then it becomes true for them otherwise not so
it it is a direct consequence of our survival instincts it is not possible to
directly perceive many things instantly
for example if somebody says they go to this direction turn left and you will
reach the city that you are going to you cannot see the city but you kind of
trust that advice and then go find if
left turn takes you to the city or not so many people out of their trust for
other people members of their own species of their own kind have accepted
people as the criteria for classifying
experiences so if somebody says that this is true this is not true we tend to
believe them especially if it relates to survival
if somebody says do not eat this kind of fruit it is poisonous I will immediate
instinct is to trust that person oh it can't be poisonous it can cause pain can
cause death so we are we have this
tendency to trust people especially on the matters of survival and if many
people say the same thing look this is true and many people are saying it then
almost automatically we assume that it is true and the reason is our third
mentality we are social animals and our survival depends on other people group
of people if many people are running from something then I better run I need
not sit there to experience the truth of it it can cause me it can cost me my
life so bigger is another tendency in a human state if everybody is saying something is true we tend to believe it
blindly many people are saying it it has to be true then we have certain special
people for example our parents our family of friends and we trust them more
because most of the time their statements were true that is what held
the child to survive because he followed
his parents he followed his family members and so very instinctively
we assume whatever is being said by these special people our relatives if
the same something is true we tend to assume it as truth we classify it as
truth we do not investigate further other than that people trust authorities
people who are high up on the social ladder people who are highly educated so-called
experts of professionals or people who are considered as the leaders of the
herd group leaders your social leaders leaders of their country leaders of your
religion or caste or community you tend to trust them even if you don't trust
them you simply assume that whatever they are saying is true the prime
minister or president says something on the TV and it becomes written in stone
it is so true for you because so many people are saying yes it is true your
leader is saying it is true the enemy country is attacking us I need your blood to defend the country I need your
gold produce more bombs and people rush
to obey the leader this has again survival benefits because we evolved in
societies we evolved in groups herds and the group leader the alpha male ensured
our survival so whatever he says we blindingly believe it it is true because
helps in survival when the society
developed a little bit we became so-called civilized we started trusting
things like books media internet nobody
will say something falls on the camera nobody is going to write something falls
in a book isn't it I don't know if we can connect this to survival bit it is
indirectly connected to our trust on people the written word has power if I
say something with my mouth nobody is going to trust me if I write
it down on a paper and sign on it and that has some weight so if I publish
a book it it has more weight because why will I do such a stupid thing
why will I write something follows in the book so people trust books
especially the books which everybody's saying say strings that is their only
criteria similarly something is written in
newspapers written by somebody who is an
expert in authority such a scientist a big scientist a big doctor something
like that it has to be true and there are some cunning people who take
advantage of them advantage of this tendency of people to believe the
authorities or the media and they will show a man in white coat selling a
toothpaste on your TV buy this toothpaste it is proven to kill
the bacteria and so on and you rush to buy the thing you pay the money you
don't know what it does but because it is a man in white coat he
is speaking English now looks educated looks from a good family and he is on
the TV's why will you sit something which is a lie why - is something which
is false this is your criteria to
classify the statements and an average person is born in this kind of criteria
and dies utilizing this criteria and
usually they serve them well it is you know totally survival related there is
nothing hard and fast here so people
don't pay attention to whether something is true or not as long as they are
surviving nicely if I say that there is
water on Mars probably are not concerned you need water in your kitchen and
bathroom but you don't worry about the truth of water and Mars yes Emily who
wants to go to Mars and then he needs to verify he needs to find out if this
really what and there or not so the need for survival determines whether we worry
about the truth or not whether if we are of any concern for us or not
so an ordinary person is not really trouble in too much what is true and
what is false most of the time their whole lives 90% of their lives they are
mostly shrouded by lies by false things
that is unfortunate because of the criteria that they have chosen to
classify the trix classify the statements into true and false
some people are smarter they have more intelligence and they do not really
trust the books on their senses because senses they lie telling you what is out
there they are evolved to show you what is beneficial for survival what is not
who is a mate who is a predator next let's all show you if something is good
for your health it smells good if something is bad for your health smells bad so some people have grown a little
bit and they have discovered more
reliable ways of classifying the statements for example at experimentation you need
to experiment many many times and if most of the time the results are as desired as expected and you say ok it is
true now and if they are unexpected are there because fuzzy they do not fall
nicely into these two categories when we say I don't know you are not certain
you're not sure about the truth of those experiences phenomena are statements for
experimentation they need direct experience we cannot rely on books or other people and we also need logic by
logic I mean simple laws such as the
statement cannot be both true and false like I said or it cannot be true
sometimes and false sometimes it cannot be true in one place and Falls another place so these kind of logical criteria
were developed we also call this a scientific method of experimentation
empirical method where we do experience
we do look for people and their opinions but we do not trust it we have very hard
criteria and only then we classify it this is their scientific method and it
has produced tremendous amount of benefit for humans if a medicine is
curing the disease most of the time then we say it is true that this medicine
will cure this disease for somebody else also this works for a lot of things for
example you throw a stone and you can predict it will fall down and you can also calculate where it will fall
exactly and that is useful for bombing people firing bullets and it has helped in
survival science survival physical sciences
similarly the medical sciences they are also concerned with survival but there
is a little bit of fuzziness there if the medicine works for many people we
simply assume that yes probably this person has this kind of disease and this kind of medicine will work so the job of
a doctor is kind of more difficult than
that of a physicist or an engineer because sometimes the diagnosis is wrong
sometimes the medicines don't work sometimes very odd things happen and the
logic fails so is mostly it and try a situation and the doctor thing the
doctor will simply change the criteria will try to find the real cause try to
experiment with other medicines and so on when we go into other matters which
are not so inert and not so rule-bound such as social things economics our eyes
are the stuff of the mind how do you
know if somebody has pain or not because simply is saying something is paining in
his body you cannot see it you cannot measure it you cannot trust it how do
you find it out how do you know if your leaders are lying how do you know if
something that is printed in a book or newspaper is Right correct true
here we are in the Murray territory of society social sciences psychology
mental sciences here probably nobody has
a good set of criteria to classify your
experiences into true and false this is
our current situation we do not really know how to ascertain the truth of these
phenomena and these are also very important for survival and peas are also
very big part of our lives usually we
have more important men how an atom
behaves or how this far away galaxy behaves we are not concerned about these
things so much and what do you want to know is what does my partner feel about
me we want to know the mental state the truths of this statement if somebody is
telling me some stuff I want to know whether it is really good or not they want to find out the truth of it so what
criteria to use here nobody has the clue and yes we use some thumb rules right if
somebody said truth for like nine times then it is more probable that he will
say something which is true for the tenth time this is what we call as faith
blind faith because we do not know what is true and what is false we just assume
things to be true many people are living
their lives like this most of the things we simply assume as true using some
arbitrary criteria so we can refine our definite
enough truth to include whatever we saw
right now the criteria are decided based
on our need of certainty they are decided by the one who wants to know
what is true and the decision is totally arbitrary so truth is a classification of
statements which is based on some criteria which are subjective and
arbitrary this is shocking with a
shocking for those who never ventured into this kind of introspection and
truth who never tried to find out the nature of truth oh this is true this
false is not true this not false and that's all was needed for them to act on
that information look this book is saying it's true it is 2000 year old
book Danny Brown look this big Authority
who's dressed in such a such clothes and twenty cars are following him and there
are security guards around him and he owns lot of money he has a big army he
is telling you that this is true and so why do you even think it is not true
this is how people live their lives even if you arrive at some truth it will be
subjective thing it will be based on arbitrary tight criteria and no two
people are going to agree on those criteria it totally depends on me if I
accept your criteria of truth or not don't you see this around you within this your own experience
nobody really know it snows what is true
nobody is really acting from truth and
nobody really worries about truth what they worry about is survival that is
more important the truth do you think man is rational animal do you think
humans use logic and truth when they act when we say things where does that put
that word seeker a seeker of truth seeker of knowledge is anything that you
know as true really true if it is true by what criteria is it true ask yourself
if it is true according to you what criteria were used to make that decision
if something is false again what criteria values God so if you
acted on drugs you should know if you do not know the criteria then it is
hopeless but it does not matter whether whether you know the truth or not
you are simply acting knowing well that the criteria are going to be subjective
they will be set up by you yourself or somebody else can you trust it can you
be certain about it when I say subjective it means they are not
reliable if two people agree on the criterion then it is commonly said that
it is true when many people I agree on the criteria we call it a valid method
of knowledge that is the scientific method if the
criteria are selected depending on the need on the precision of the truth then
there are betray what does I am but remain somebody just said there and
decided that I haven't going to come till it beasts criteria that's all it means does it serve your purpose if it is
arbitrary does that mean that the truth is true if it is arbitrary and
subjective will it mean what does it mean this thing is true which is based
on this subjective and arbitrary criteria is it really true where is your
trick now although it is very scientific you see this such and such big Authority
big scientists said that wait for 25 years something new is discovered and
that old thing which you were so certain of is crashed because this new theory
new observation new experiment totally
throws the old truth away is science a
pursuit of truth did they tell you that in their schools no it is a matter it is
a very brilliant genius method to know
something but it does not give you the truth it gives you a working pain theory
means assumptions
science does not deal with truth nothing really deals with truth no philosophy
deals with truth they are all working models they explain things we're trying
to answer these five kind of questions
what where why how who when so on if
your science book says such a such thing is true it is not any different than
book written by a religious person the book with us you to believe blindly
because every few years the science changes is it true if it changes I told
you that is very intelligent criteria for truth in science scientific method
and many common sensical methods but if
it changes if it is true today it is not true tomorrow it's not really true this is not true for soft Sciences
for example economics the value of dollar is this much today tomorrow if
you want to find out it will be something else and so it is not really true there is no true value of dollar
there is no true value of rupees and there is no certain value of any shares
your whole bank and their business is not really based on truth
do you believe them because they are so truthful do you think they are following
laws there that are true they're written in stone no the Chinese the laws whenever there is a need the powerful
people there above law they're about truth they're about false they make the truth
whenever it is needed they make it falls whenever they want it this is how you
are being ruled many people do not know what is true and what is false and how
to manipulate the truth truths and falsities simply by choosing a suitable
criteria and I for changing criteria and
they are easy to manipulate believe me or not anyhow we do not worry this is
normal human business a seeker is more worried about what he knows for certain
can you find something which should know for certain the question is very easy
easy that see results very easy and any seeker whose work is solid knows the
answer the ancient philosopher the wise
men they saw this miserable situation of the truth so they tried to arrive at a
criterion which is kind of a king of all the criteria what is that criteria even
the wisest of philosophers they do not agree and what is true isn't it this is
your experience in the ending points
down to who you trust boils down to blind faith in spirituality about blind
faith are you fooling yourselves like this is
this is true and therefore I know it is true it was said by this and this big
guru there it is true are you fooling
yourself say the name of spirituality in the name of silence and truth and
philosophies this is the most important
question any secret needs to us please do not ask what is true what is false
you know it is not going to produce any results nothing meaningful will come out
of it all you will get is a general of criteria arbitrary subjective criteria
which will try to convince you look this is true this is false and who knows
something is true probably it will be useful who knows it gives you the
expected results then who cares if it is true or not you need to do that do not
assume that my actions are producing a good result desirable results so I must be following
the truth
Bulai also works when you tell a child it don't bring your toy don't know hit
your brother or sister otherwise Tiger will eat you which I'll stops doing
causing trouble works lies are useful
will you tell that something in the sky will punish you when you're dead it
works it controls the masses it forces
them into an ethical behavior it is not truly ethical but you see you can keep
them under control oh no you need to pay this much tax
because this tax money is going into nation-building we know however the
money is going but it keeps the money flowing from your pocket to those to the
accounts of those who are ruling you who are manipulating you the line works
beautifully when you want a beautiful
woman what do you say I love you actually you are convinced that you you
are in love all you want is pleasure if
the woman says no not able to provide the pleasure love is gone instantly no
love it turns it to hate was it true there is no surprise that most part of
our lives is covered up in lies we are
living a false life everything about this human life is false so the wise men
they try to they saw this pitiable condition they
tried to find what is really true what is not and it is a big surprise it is
bigger surprise than this whole drama of truth wherever they looked they found
falsity they found lies now I'm not
talking about the social conditions I'm not talking about the nature of humans and what will they do for survival and
procreation are not done about death they saw that the most fundamental
things that we observe we trust they're
all lies the comment and illusion why is
that because all that you can know is your experience and you will try to
arrive at truth by classifying your experience and you will by necessity
need criteria and by necessarily again the criteria will be subjective and
arbitrary so there is no we need to
arrive at truth using your experience
whatever you experience will be subject
to this process it is very logical but in the end you don't get ripped
no experience is going to take you to turns it will take you to this jungle of
subjective arbitrary statements I'm not
saying they won't be useful they may be useful sometimes but a spiritual person is not really after use he is
transcendent the survival we use whatever is using is useful in survival
and that don't worry about it ok but I
want to know the ultimate truth I want to know the reality where are you going
to find the reality try the experience try any kind of experience so-called
spiritual experiences is also how are
you going to classify them as true and false using some random arbitrary
subjective criteria if many people agree on it well it satisfies you but if you
are a very hardcore seeker don't worry about what others are saying and then it becomes impossible to know the truth
by experience so the wise people call everything that we can experience as
illusion as Maya because that is what it is it is not true what do you really
experience look at your experience
sometimes I fail your experience is your truth yes because that is true but that
which you're experiencing is not true the conclusion that you draw from what
you're experiencing is true so take a look at for example a leaf initially
there is no leaf on the tree it appears to have magic that it appears on the tree on a branch it grows a little bit
and then dries up and falls down and then disappears in the dirt it is as if
it was never there if nobody observed this process then leaf never happened it
is a transient phenomenon it is ever changing continuously morphing phenomena
is there a leaf this is the question
what is the truth of leaf and a tree
before you saw the leaf it was not there after it dried up and became dirt it was
it is not there so if you call something true it has to be true in the past it
must be true today it must be true in future but amazingly this criteria this
very logical attitude tells you that the leaf is not
true it was not there while changing also it was kind of transitory
yesterday's leaf leaf was gone today's leaf is totally different it is
not the same leaf and now it is direct and probably recycled back into some of
the plants no more relief so by that criteria it is not true
we say belief is an illusion it appeared for a while oh no but I saw it but where is it now
it's in my memory isn't that you know
and if their criteria on on top of their criteria is that it is in my memory it
has to be true we all know what kind of memory we have our memory is not really
reliable anyhow if memory is your criteria then probably 90% of your life
is already false because you don't remember don't remember anything
remember only handful of things which were very important for your survival
isn't this true so that which changes not true think about it do not simply
blindly believe it does not matter how wise that philosopher is how big that
name is how godly that guru is he can be
wrong you need to question it you need to introspect on it you need to find the
flaws in your thinking then you will find it
nothing is really true you like your car
very much and you drive it you are an
expert driver and so on it is the status symbol for you that's why I like it
otherwise who cares for a piece of metal
is there a card now let us find out this is the important is there a car you will
say yes I can see it many people can see it they all call it a car and yes it is
a card does not matter what language you use to describe it it is going to be
thing look at the car again is there car or are there Wheels engines
mechanisms seats steering the wheel windscreen your CV your radio your GPS
are there these things or is there a card tell me honestly it does not take a lot
of intelligence also are you shocked
because yes there is no car the car name is the name only it represents an
experience and then experience does not consist of a thing called car it is it
consists of all these things time parts and the parts are is there an entity
where solid individual entity no it took
you two seconds to know that you don't own a car what kind of delusions you are
living in even those parts that car is made up of they're made up of something
else all kinds I'll mention chemicals
there are forms even if I replace a lot of them the car is going to remain the
car is the that the same car no first it was not a car now it is not
the same car what are you really driving although it is very useful to simply
assume that there is a car there it's not there really it was not there and it
will not be there it does not matter how much money you spend on it
this might surprise you this can be new thing for you because I don't think
people sit down and think like this they do not question their reality they
don't do not question the truths they already know because I already know why
should I worry about you know why should I find out why should I waste my time on
this useless exercise know the truth
who cares it does not matter how what you know how you know which very do you
use it is not true then you are going to
ask me oh then is it false no it is not false you see the truth and falls both
are arbitrary it is what it is it is your experience therefore I say your
experience in the truth the experience which is free from all this conditioning
all that comes and goes is an illusion all that you name the concepts therefore
we save it whatever we experience is just names and forms and they're not
true now for the first time in your life you know why they're not true how the false without truth the false cannot
exist this is a duality you need something to be true in order for the other things to be
false that is not the case everything is false
nothing is true and so there is no
meaning in this classification apart from the practical use apart from purely
survival related uses what is trying to
survive here this body and again is there a body it was not there it won't
be there it is changing right now also and it is not a thing it is collection
of many many things which are also not things ultimately it is nothing it is
made up of nothing any physicist even your elementary school teacher will
tell you that these things that our senses are sensing they are nothingness
there are only forms that reminds me of
these toys that you must have played with they could pin screen it is like a
grid of pins and you can create any form
you want out of it and then you can reset it goes back to nothing what we
see around us is a pin screen the forms appear and they disappear just like the
appearing disappear on the pin screen it is arising and falling it is made up of
nothing this big puzzle my whole life
was false my whole world crumbled down
in few minutes and the solid ground of
truth and certainty this random guy on YouTube he pulled it out below my feet
now I'm just hanging here what is true then just like I said don't worry miss
me there is no such thing stop looking for truth don't search for truth instead
go for by experience you are experiencing something isn't it amazing
why do you want to classify it as true and false it is all false are you can I
would really save it oh yes this these things are true yes it is true who cares
yes there is a certain thing here which
is obviously not true and false and that is you I am the truth not what I say is
true at all that is stupidity I am is
the truth because even if it is true even if it is false there has to be a
witness of these things even if it is an illusion even if it is Maya even if it
is names and forms just spin scream there needs to be no witness to witness
it can may be something which is true
without the witness can there be something which is false without the
witness the most certain thing where I
can say is that I exist no in what form do I exist how do I look like these and
not that these things are not going to produce anything meaningful you don't
need to believe me and try a seeker always experiments don't believe anybody
blindly don't believe me I can only show
you your mistakes I cannot tell you the truth I don't know the truth if somebody
comes to me be clearing look I found the truth this is the truth I laugh loudly
the stupidity because suffering is true or false this is the truth for the truth
there is witness consciousness witnessing all that is true all the
response can call it true no because you will never find it what criteria are you
going to use classify it as true because it is also
that which is witnessing you see the
sculpture made up of pins on Pinsk line is nothing but the pins the clay pots
made up out of clay are nothing but clay the waves in the ocean are nothing but water and the
ornaments made up of gold and nothing but gold similarly whatever you see
whatever Percy whatever you think - whatever you experience whether it is
true or false it is same thing which is
witnessing it there is no difference between what is witnessing and what is
being witnessed it is pure emptiness it is nothingness it is nothing can nothing
be true can nothing befall nothing is true and falls at the same time it is
there in relation to something that is why we call it consciousness that means
we know because there is something to know these two things do not exist
independently of each other they do not
exist therefore we say not to non-doing
Advait we're interesting because there is a
criteria in add weight that gives you the true and false it is very simple and
it is actually the most powerful the strongest criteria that I ever saw in my
life and the criteria is very simple it says that which changes is false that it
does not change it's true now as a
homework you can try to find something that does not change and you will find
the truth good luck because when you take your
experience all of your experience is changing the experience is nothing but change we also call it mind because it's
all mind created you see just like I gave you the example the leaf the car
the pin screen the ornaments the waves do the exist know where mine created
something exists you will say yes mine is creating them or something and it is
that emptiness you will never find it something you will only find the
emptiness you will find nothing if these things are being created out of nothing you will you will not find the truth in
any kind of experience some people may
want to say oh the experiencer is this truth then now because it does not change this is true to some extent
many seekers are satisfied with this kind of conclusion that yes I am the
experiencer and I am the truth and the only truth a few put a question mark on it and we
cannot find the experience there they do not find this thing called I what is I
is this in this body are there there are some concepts in my mind which I call as
I there are some memories there is the name there is a form there are
characteristics they are ever-changing is that me and if that is me it is
already false you will never find that
it does not change it because it is nothing and can you call nothing
the Antonis the attribute less and changing invisible thing which is not a
thing as truth how meaningful is that
all you can do is on this spiritual path any spiritual path destroy your beliefs
of true and false and remain as you are
you are both true you are both false your true and false and you are not true
in your not false you think that amazing why do we need random truths and false
falsities to define anything just
experience this game it is amazing what
are you seeking
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