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Sitaram · Site Admin Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 1079

(3-24-2000)

Perhaps "Truth" is the greatest deception of all....

As one Anglican Bishop once stated: "Perhaps the only Heresy was that
there was every any Dogma or Doctrine to begin with."

Alexander the Great was marching with his army into India, when he saw
some Hindu Holy men sitting in the distance, naked, meditating. He sent
his officer to the to enquire of them "What great Truth have you
discovered?". Upon returning to Alexander, the officer related their reply:
"If you would know our Truth, come here, remove your clothes, and
remain with us as your great army marches away." (i.e. it was a
"subjective" truth)

Do any of you really imagine that the "Truth" is limited to one historical
time, one nation, one language, one prophet, one sacred scripture?

Was not St. Paul closer to the "Truth" when he wrote: Acts 17: 27 That
they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him,
though he be not far from every one of us".?

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When alexander sent his officer to inquire from the naked saints..they
were NOT HINDU saints, they were as a matter of fact..JAIN SAINTS!

The saints impressed and ispired Alexanser so much that one of them
even accompanied him back to rome. But alexander died on the way
back, on the ship itself. Then that saint preached the ppl in rome..

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"There is no path to truth, it must come to you. Truth can come to you
only when your mind and heart are simple, clear, and there is love in your
heart; not if your heart is filled with the things of the mind. When there is
love in your heart, you do not talk about organizing for brotherhood; you
do not talk about belief, you do not talk about division or the powers that
create division, you need not seek reconciliation. Then you are simply a
human being without a label, without a country. This means that you must
strip yourself of all those things and allow truth to come into being; and it
can come only when the mind is empty, when the mind ceases to create.
Then it will Hcome without your invitation. Then it will come as swiftly as
the wind and unbeknown. It comes obscurely, not when you are watching,
wanting. It is there as sudden as sunlight, as pure as the night; but to
receive it, the heart must be full and the mind empty. Now you have the
mind full and your heart empty."

from The Book of Life:

Daily Meditations with J. Krishnamurti (August_1)

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Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path
whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless,
unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be
organized; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to coerce
people along any particular path.

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Re: perhaps "Truth" is the greatest deception of all

Wed Mar 22 06:13:14 2000

Truth was existing before time started. It is beyond time. Religion is not
started with Prophet Mohammed. Truth is Eternal.

Truth is not the personal property of Prophet Mohammed. Truth is one but
there are various means to attain this.

If there is only one way to achieve this truth then Lord would not have
created one person different from the other. He would have created
everybody equal.

Truth is one but ways are many. It is according to our likes and dislikes.

Truth is one but paths are many according to our convenience.

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Truth is the exclamation of Archimedes "Eureka" (meaning "I have found"
in Greek).

But Truth is not that thing found, nor the manner or path by which you
arrived at your discovery. Truth is the very exclamation point itself, at the
end of the sentence. Such a subtle and personal thing this "Truth" is! It is
the "jot" and the "tittle" which shall never pass away, but it is not
perennial by anything in its own nature, but rather by virtue of the faith
and confidence and ecstasy of that individual who shouts "Eureka! I have
found it!". Truth is that one little iota of difference, the letter "i", whose
presence or absence paints God and reality in entirely different colors.
The two Greek terms "homoousios" (of ONE substance and essence) and
"homOIousious" (of SIMILAR but not identical substance and essence) was
that once little IOTA of difference which sparked the entire Arian
controversy in the 4th century C.E.

Three types of Arianism emerged: radical Arianism, which asserted that
the Son was "dissimilar" to the Father; homoeanism, which held that the
Son was similar to the Father; and semi-Arianism, which shaded off into
orthodoxy and held that the Son was similar yet distinct from the Father.
After an initial victory of the homoean party in 357, the semi-Arians joined
the ranks of orthodoxy, which finally triumphed except in Teutonic
Christianity, where Arianism survived until after the conversion (496) of
the Franks. Although much of the dispute about Arianism seems a battle
over words (Edward Gibbon scornfully observed that Christianity was split
over a single iota, the difference between homoousios and homoiousios),
a fundamental issue involving the integrity of the Gospel was at stake:
whether God was really in Christ reconciling the world to himself.

However distinctively you may cross your "t's" and dot your "i's", the
"Truth", YOUR "Truth" remains subjectively yours, and lies not in the
words which express that truth so much as the EXCLAMATION point at the
end, your own faith and confidence that finally you can say "Eureka! I
have found!" Gold miners in the 1849 California rush would shout
"Eureka!" when they discovered a rich vein of gold. Archimedes was
originally in a bath tub, trying to decide how to measure the volume of the
King's crown, and thus measure the gold in the crown. When Archimedes
noticed the water overflowing and spilling out as he immersed his body in
the overly-full tub, he suddenly realized that the MEASURE of all the water
displaced would be EXACTLY equivalent to the volume of his own body,
and also equivalent to the volume of a gold crown immersed in a
brimming full vessel. And knowing the VOLUME of the crown and the
WEIGHT, one might precisely assay the quality and value of the gold. So
when Archimedes finally "discovered" the truth, he was neither king, nor
did he have any crown or gold, but only an "understanding", and he
jumped out of the tub and ran naked through the streets in his
excitement. May each of you come one day to your own understanding
and feel the joy and peace of such certainty, which is the only TRUE gold
that shall ever crown your personal sovereignty.

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