Truth or opinion?

How do you know and identify absolute truth

What is absolute truth ?

An absolute truth remains a  truth at all times. It relates to all things , in all places and to all conscious beings at all times , and in every circumstance . It also  interelates with countless and unlimited relative truths . Absolute truth can never  change. Its position is eternally  a fact .

Of course in todays social media society , it becomes more and more difficult to find any objective truths , and everyone is being  bombarded with subjective and  relative opinions , often presented as being objective facts to various gullible members of the  public , or on various media webb sites .

The BBC are also dishonest, and  when John Simpson , their foreign affairs editor, proudly says the BBC never spin anything , that very statement is spin .  What’s good for the goose? May not be so good for the gander .

Truth is infinite and unlimited, and the limited may know something of the unlimited by the unlimited mercy of the unlimited on the limited , thus, the absolute truth can be accessible to any of its unlimited portions .

Krishna says if you want to know the truth , one must  approach a bone fide spiritual master , who has insight into absolute truths .  The Vedic cultures have always  recognised  the trancendental spiritual teachers , whose lives are dedicated to Divinity and the absolute truth. They  are those who are  able to speak purely and directly from the Scripture but who have  realized knowledge by the grace of the absolute,  its they who can give us access and  insights to various aspects  of the absolute and without  duplicity based on relative selfish interests .

Political truths and philosophical  variable truths may be another matter and can  be regarded as relative truths . If they are actually truths and expounded by those who live in the mode of goodness and truthfulness,  they will ring true to the truthful.

Those who want to be cheated will always find cheaters .

A .C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada would say this world is for the cheaters and the cheated .

Ultimately, if one takes shelter of absolute truth, one is going to instinctively know when truth is before us  . Divinity within the heart directly inspires the truthful,  and the truth can always be corroborated by other saints as well as the theological texts passed down from any of the four sampradayas and their disciplic successions .

http://www.thevedicspectator.com

Jan 18, 2024

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