Video Information: ShabdYog Session, 29.3.17, Advait BodhSthal, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Description:
In this insightful session, Acharya Ji explores the multifaceted nature of truth, asserting that it can be expressed in countless ways, each valid in its own context. He emphasizes that truth is dynamic and ever-changing, much like a mirror reflecting its surroundings. Distinguishing between truth and fact, he explains that while facts are finite and observable, truth transcends these limitations, encompassing contradictions and paradoxes.
Acharya Ji encourages listeners to embrace their inner simplicity and authenticity, suggesting that true expressions of truth arise effortlessly from a place of inner peace. He advises against the burden of judging or defining truth, advocating instead for a focus on living in facts with honesty and compassion. Ultimately, he reminds us that truth is an expansive concept that flourishes in genuine expression, inviting us to engage with it from a place of clarity and innocence.
Context:
~ How is the relationship between truth and context described in the video?
~ What distinguishes truth from fact in the discussion?
~ In what ways can truth be expressed, according to the insights shared?
~ Why is inner peace emphasized as important for expressing truth?
~ What advice is given regarding the judgment of truth?
~ How can embracing authenticity contribute to a deeper understanding of truth?
~ What role does compassion play in living a truthful life, as highlighted in the teachings?
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#AcharyaPrashant #आचार्यप्रशांत #Philosophy
Description:
In this insightful session, Acharya Ji explores the multifaceted nature of truth, asserting that it can be expressed in countless ways, each valid in its own context. He emphasizes that truth is dynamic and ever-changing, much like a mirror reflecting its surroundings. Distinguishing between truth and fact, he explains that while facts are finite and observable, truth transcends these limitations, encompassing contradictions and paradoxes.
Acharya Ji encourages listeners to embrace their inner simplicity and authenticity, suggesting that true expressions of truth arise effortlessly from a place of inner peace. He advises against the burden of judging or defining truth, advocating instead for a focus on living in facts with honesty and compassion. Ultimately, he reminds us that truth is an expansive concept that flourishes in genuine expression, inviting us to engage with it from a place of clarity and innocence.
Context:
~ How is the relationship between truth and context described in the video?
~ What distinguishes truth from fact in the discussion?
~ In what ways can truth be expressed, according to the insights shared?
~ Why is inner peace emphasized as important for expressing truth?
~ What advice is given regarding the judgment of truth?
~ How can embracing authenticity contribute to a deeper understanding of truth?
~ What role does compassion play in living a truthful life, as highlighted in the teachings?
🎧 Listen to Acharya Prashant on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/2QmVEAAnsNE7Xs0MW0Li8Y?si=09fbcbc7c99c469b
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~
#AcharyaPrashant #आचार्यप्रशांत #Philosophy
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00:00Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways yet each one can be true.
00:19Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways yet each one can be true.
00:27You can even go a step ahead and say truth must always be stated in a thousand different
00:36ways.
00:37Vivekananda has been a little too liberal upon us, he has just said that truth can be
00:48stated in a thousand ways, truth must be stated in a thousand ways because the truth is fundamentally
00:53nothing.
00:54A statement of truth is just any statement arising from your pure nothingness.
01:05That nothingness has no agenda of its own, it only seeks expression and the expression
01:09is always according to the situation and because the world is always in a flux so two situations
01:15are never the same.
01:18Which means one expression of truth can never never be the same as another expression.
01:26That means not only truth can be stated in a thousand ways, truth will necessarily be
01:33stated in a thousand ways.
01:37Which means that even if one is talking on something in this moment and the same topic
01:47and the same audience repeats itself an hour later, the talk is bound to be different.
01:57Which means that the truth is not going to follow even itself.
02:04Truth is such a rebel, truth is such a non-conformist.
02:10One statement of truth is never going to be identical to the next statement.
02:15In fact, there are chances that one statement of truth can in fact contradict another statement
02:21of truth.
02:22So, those who are looking for conformity or continuity or consistency are always going
02:28to be disappointed.
02:33In one situation you state it in one way, in another situation it emerges in another
02:39way.
02:40Because the truth fundamentally is an openness, an emptiness, a nothingness, a cleanliness.
02:49Truth is like a mirror, a well-polished, clean, shining mirror.
02:56In one moment, because the situation is white, the mirror will reflect white.
03:04Other moment the situation is black, the mirror will reflect black.
03:07That is how the truth is.
03:09Neither it has to add something on its own nor does it have to subtract anything on its
03:16own.
03:17It just reflects.
03:18Are you getting it?
03:19So, generally the statements which you call as a statement of truth, they are generally
03:35presented to us as facts.
03:39In the sense that they don't have opposites?
03:43No, they might have opposites.
03:47They definitely have opposites.
03:50You see...
03:51I don't know what is the difference between fact and truth.
03:57Is there a difference?
03:59Fact is one thing.
04:04And the opposite of a fact will not be a fact.
04:10But the opposite of truth would again be truth.
04:17It is a fact that you are sitting here, when it cannot be a fact that you are present on
04:22the terrace at this moment.
04:29But it is true that you are nothing and it is equally true that you are everything.
04:43The truth contains within itself its own opposite also.
04:48Because nothing lies outside of it.
04:54Fact is always a fragment, a littleness, observable through senses.
05:04Fact is always something that you can express within the finite limits of language.
05:14Fact is always about something little.
05:22Truth is neither perceivable through senses, nor is it about something little, nor does
05:30it have an opposite, nor does it get contradicted or offended.
05:37In fact, when you say the truth, there can be no statement of the truth.
05:52You can only have statements arising from the truth.
05:59And when you are in the truth, then any and every statement arising from you is a statement
06:06of truth.
06:10It could be the most nonsensical and meaningless statement and yet it would be a statement
06:15of truth.
06:20Lovingly, you just utter something senseless to someone.
06:33It is the highest truth.
06:39You might say something which is not even within the comprehension of language.
06:49It is still the truth.
06:59The devotee says to his God, You are my Lord, Truth.
07:15He next says, You are my father, Truth.
07:20He next says, You are my husband, Truth.
07:23Next says, You are my friend, Truth.
07:26Next he says, You are nobody, Truth.
07:28Next he says, You are abracadabra.
07:30That is also truth.
07:33Seated in the truth, whatever comes out from you is the truth.
07:42And that is why truth is not verifiable.
07:45Because that statement in itself is meaningless.
07:49What matters is where that statement came from.
07:57The same statement coming from one center is a statement of truth.
08:02The same statement coming from another center is the ugliest deception.
08:11Your basic simplicity, innocence is truth.
08:18From there, just casually, effortlessly, do whatever you want to do.
08:27Whatever you do would be an action of truth.
08:30Whatever you say would be a statement of truth.
08:33The truth really cannot be contained in any statement.
08:40But an infinite number of statements will emerge from the truth.
08:45No one statement can have monopoly over the truth.
08:49Every single possible conceivable statement can be a statement of truth.
08:58Provided it is coming from your inner peace.
09:02Arising from your peace, whatever you say is the inner truth.
09:11Siddhartha sir wants to ask, without knowing the fact, how can we decide what is truth?
09:22You do not decide what is truth.
09:26You limit yourself to facts.
09:31And that is a nice thing that you are talking of.
09:35Do go into the facts as clearly and as honestly as possible.
09:40You leave the truth to itself.
09:43You do not burden yourself about judging the truth.
09:48The truth is anyway harassed with too many judges.
09:53You need not add one more.
09:57Limit yourself to facts.
10:00Look at the facts around you and look at the facts of your own life.
10:04Honestly.
10:05Ruthlessly.
10:06And at the same time, with compassion.
10:10Being ruthless does not mean being violent.
10:15It only means being detached.
10:18Very, very sharply.
10:23Very purely.
10:26Without any adulteration.
10:29Know what you are, how your life is like, what is really going on.
10:36That is called living in facts.
10:41If you do not live in facts, then you will live in fantasies, imaginations.
10:47That will hurt.
10:52You may keep imagining that you are walking on a beautifully paved road.
10:59But if there is a pothole in front of you,
11:04imaginations will not save you.
11:08It will hurt.
11:11So, learn to live in facts.
11:14If you are living in facts, the truth will take care of you.
11:19In fact, unless the truth is taking care of you,
11:24you will find it difficult to live in facts.
11:28Limit yourself to facts.
11:31Just do not think of the truth.
11:34Leave the truth to itself.
11:36Do not bug it.
11:39You must have nothing to do with the truth at all.
11:43The truth is not at all your business.
11:46Do not bother about the truth.