There have been thousands of books written about the ultimate truth about human life, the purpose, and the quest to find the purpose., enlightenment, and liberation.
There have been and will be thousands of Gurus, Maharshis, Saints, Bodhisattvas, Buddhas, Christs, and Prophets living among us, teaching us the ultimate truth of the universe and human existence.
But, here’s the one ultimate truth I realized.
No one can ever teach you what the ultimate truth is. Once it is said, it stops being the truth. It becomes the perspective of the one who is saying it. It’s his version of the truth but not the truth itself.
It’s just like someone describing the sunset to you. You can never experience the sunset second hand despite the best intention and honest effort of the person describing to be as close to the truth as he can be. still, no one can explain to you what the sunset is. You must experience it yourself, in person, through all your senses and being.
In the same way, You can never experience the Truth secondhand. it’s not possible. You must experience it yourself.
No one can make you understand what the Truth is, find it yourself, and once you do, don’t share it. Because the very effort of conveying the truth distorts the truth.
Any form of Expression needs the mind, and the Truth cannot be conveyed using the faculties of the mind.
The truth can’t be expressed through the five senses, which include audio-visual, touch, taste, and smell.
For example, the truth can’t be conveyed through language because then it would depend on the expertise of the writer/speaker and the ability of the reader/listener. When you read or listen to someone you are just reading/listening to their version of what they perceive as the Truth but not the Truth itself.
The Truth of the teacher can never be the Truth of the student. Because the teacher can never express the truth without involving the faculties of the mind, limitations of the senses, and communication methods.
Then does it mean there’s one truth per person, everyone has their Truth and there’s no ultimate Truth?
Maybe. But, we can try to better under this seemingly paradoxical situation through a widely known explanation.
On a full moon day, if you happen to be near a lake you may see the moon in the lake, you know it’s a reflection of the actual moon, and you will find a reflection of the moon in every lake in the country. You know that none of these reflections are the moon. But, at the same time, they are all genuine reflections of the moon and pretty close to what the moon looks like if you were to see it directly. And, at the same time, no two of the reflections can be the same, because the patterns on the surface of the lakes can’t be the same.
But if you were to assume there’s no wind, and the surface of all the lakes if still with no movement at all and there’s no disturbance at all then you could say the reflections are very close to each other and to the moon itself.
Just like each lake has its moon, rather than a reflection of the moon, every teacher and student has their version of the Truth, the perspective of the Truth, never the Truth itself. But they all could be the reflection of the same Truth.
In conclusion, seek your version of The Truth, and never accept someone else’s truth as yours. Truth must be experienced and not understood. A learned master might be able to tell you how to find your Truth and point you in the right direction but can never tell you what it is even if he tries with genuine intent and honest effort for the Truth can never be conveyed.
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