I know that speaking Truth or always being truthful is the best thing that one can do in his life. But most of the times, in my life I end up lying. Sometimes to my parents whom I love and respect the most, sometimes to a stranger whom I have never met before. I don’t know how much I have lied. The fact is that, it’s innumerable. What’s wrong in saying a harmless lie? Many asked me and each time I answered affirmatively my heart knew the truth, that I was wrong. Even though I had millions of reasons to state that being truthful cannot always help, I could never convince myself. Like a pre-set data it was there in me and so is with rest of you all. One day, I decided to overthrow my conscience at a one to one debate on the topic ‘whether being truthful helps or not’. This was my only chance and I had to win. I prepared my excuses, reasons, examples and framed sentences. But on the other side my conscience was not preparing at all, he remained unmoved with utter tranquillity. This disturbed me, this always did disturb me. Anyways, I made up my mind and called him upon a debate. Yes, I did…..!!!
Everything was set; I looked up at my conscience beckoning it to start the debate which he didn’t. He just smiled back at me as if he were a part of a child-play, as if nothing bothered him, as if I were just a kid!!!
No! No! I should not get angry because if I will then I may lose this debate. I controlled my emotions and decided to introduce the topic myself. I started of like this; we have been brought up by our parents, guardians or whomsoever it may apply by preaching us never to lie. But those are the very same people who scold us when we open up to our neighbours about what they think of them in their absence. Our parents and relatives are the very first set of people who teach us how to lie efficiently, at times to friends and at times to law that governs the nation. This paradox simply conveys that, ‘Truth is like those seasoning that you get with every dish, which is nice to look upon but not supposed to consume’. You cannot always relay upon truth because if you do then you may get misunderstood, risk the lives of your loved ones and may even be forced to quit your life…..
That argument must be enough to take him down, so I thought. With an expression of confirmed victory I asked my conscience once again, do you have any objections? But I couldn’t receive any different reply. This time it really pissed me off to that extent that I let go my formal way of speech and started getting on my own. What happened? Have no answers, right? I tried to provoke but it seemed as if nothing was working on it.
But indeed it was making me feel more and more sore. He never replied, still I felt as if I was being defeated. I was kind of convinced that I was not making sense even though my statements were my own experiences. His silence was continuously converging with me and I had no other options than to surrender…….
I accept that I may be wrong conceptually but this is what exactly happens in life, you will have to lie at one or the other point in life if you want to live peacefully in today’s society,’ said I in an attempt to persuade him.
Now his silence was overpowering me, every moment passing by made me feel underrated. Okay, I accept it that I do not know anything about truth but it seems that you know a lot about it, then why don’t you explain about the same because now I really want to know, requested I with an expectation that at least now he will reply.
And it almost did the magic………………………………
For the first time in my life I heard the voice of my real self and it was not a mere sound rather it was an experience or perhaps a ‘Revelation’ in more prolific English. The first statement or as already said a revelation that slapped me was that “the picture of truth that you carry along with you is fake”. This almost left me blank and bit annoyed as well, as to how it could be possible……???
There is huge difference between truth and fact and that itself is the difference between happiness and bliss, explained him with almost no expression.
But there is almost no difference between them’, said I.
Oh, there is but to know, you require seeing through.
Fact is the representation of any event which is good, bad, ugly….
This simply means that facts can be many but ‘Truth’ can only be one.
If truth can be many which changes according to situations then that cannot be truth instead it will be just a ‘Happening’.
One that never changes whatsoever can only be called as ‘Truth’, ‘Facts’ have two sides to it whereas ‘Truth’ doesn’t.
Hmm…right, so if I go by you then I will have to conclude that there is nothing called ‘Truth’ and it’s just a mere hoax,’ I said.
No wonder you said that but let me assure you ‘There is’,’ said he.
Ah! Of course there is and let me guess it for you this time…
It’s the God! Right? The supreme commander who stays ‘somewhere’ which in fact is ‘nowhere’ and keeps a record of all your doings assigning ratings side by side which shall be useful for settling your accounts upon your death only to open a new account on the basis of your previous performances. What ridicule! If this is what you want to explain then am off-board for this,’ said I in an attempt to debar him from explaining me raw-spirituality.
Great! My friend, you are more profound than you know of yourself.
Ok then, let me start from where left it off “spirituality and god”,’ he said.
You are right by not accepting the hypothesis of someone else controlling your life, that’s logical but are we really the deciders of what happens in our life?
The simple answer is ‘No’
‘If not me then who?’ could be your next question and the right answer to this shall leave you in the state of self-actualization.
Self-actualization? Abhram Mashlows’ hierarchy theory? Are you going to teach me management, now? You know what, Spirituality is the better option,’ said I.
That’s the point every tutor or management expert skips, they say that it’s a position wherein a person reaches a state of contempt with his job and some say that it is a hypothetical situation which cannot be reached as human wants have no bounds,’ he said almost with an essence of taunt in his wordings.
Well, you were only halfway praising me when I interrupted…
I would like you to complete the discussion that you started off,’ said I.
Yeah, I actually agree with your stance of non-agreement with supremacy of one over other and want to broaden it up by letting you know that it is not only applicable in case of ‘God’ rather in case of any government round the world as well. If you give the right to protect you or safeguard you to anyone who is devoid of you(not you) then you are bound to face issues. No government, no god, no religion or ideology can protect your interest or know you completely simply because they are not you.
But the most important thing to be noted here is that, no religion in fact preaches its subjects to fight, to conquer, to kill, to be slave to a supreme leader or to find certain caste more pious that other.
People always take advantage out of situations and accordingly some people did by deliberately misinterpreting the facts and moulding them for their benefits. On the other hand we guys who vaunt ourselves to be a part of a particular religion don’t even know what his or her religion has to offer. We love devastation, competition and hence we compete for the sake of competing, to feed our emotions,’ said he.
I completely buy that but still you haven’t told me what that unanimous truth is?’ I enquired.
It’s simple my pal, if we are observant enough then we would clearly see an unknown power or whatever you want to call it having a say our life which is also beyond the explanation of human evolved science.
As already discussed if that energy stream is different from you (sourced from a different entity) then it’s of no use no matter how valuable it is. So the only truth, the only crux of all religion, the motive behind all the customs and traditions is to make you ripe enough to be able to receive the only truth that it’s you.
You are that energy stream, the god that every religion scripted but you won’t feel it because when I say ‘You’ it means the legitimate you. Right now what we know is only about a body bifurcated into either male, female or else then about a name, religion, caste, qualifications, designations, habits and character. And none of these defines you as it doesn’t come with you; they are assigned later on for the purpose of ease of understanding.
Equality (oneness) is truth but can never be implemented in life; it is not something to be exercised but to be continuously experienced. From the very beginning you kept on saying that truth cannot be exercised and I agree, if you want to live in this world you will have to follow the pattern but there is no need to consider it the truth.
I won’t be able to explain you anymore because the rest has to be your experience. Analyse or try to define the ‘raw you’ and if you do it correctly then you shall be able to match the left out points and get a crystal clear picture of your own self,’ he said.
What he said could be the truth or may have been just a story that he sewed off to win this debate but either ways one thing is sure that I am still to find my own self………..,’ I thought.
- Vineeth Nair
