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Yes, where is truth? what's the truth and what is false, made up, or untrue, about something?  How can we know, how can we find out?  We can't unless we seek truth unless we ask, and listen, and see  (opposite to Gandhi's three monkeys). Yes, we can find truth  by seeking, what we know, what we believe in,  but also  By asking questions, By listening to what others say,  By looking at the other side too.  But we need to know that there is truth! It doesn't show itself, it doesn't impose on others, it keeps to itself! Yes, truth is absolute knowledge is relevant!

  A famous saying, “I think, therefore I am!” is interesting, and complex. Descartes, a French philosopher has been known to have said this line. Declaring that human intellect is much more than human feelings, he had started a branch of philosophy. And is that true for all of us, do we think therefore we are, or are we first and that is why we think? Or can we say “what we think that is what we are or that’s what we become?”  It is so much like the concept of Karma, we become what our karma is, or do we become first, and make our Karma/destiny accordingly! That is what I think sometimes! Do you too?

  There is a difference between truth and knowledge.  Truth is what we want to know, but what we know, actually that is not the truth, it is just our knowledge   !  A quote from an ancient Indian classic, RigveD   presents this idea  succinctly,  - "Ekam sad vipraha bahuda vadanti", meaning “Truth is one; the wise describe ‘it’ in different ways”!  This quote can confuse us, disappoint us as we realise inadequacy  of our  knowledge , but actually it challenges us to question what we know and what we are told .  It tells us that we  should be seekers, active individuals finding our own truth, and not followers of someone else's truth which  is not the absolute truth .   As truth is one, but described in many dif ferent forms!