What you feel is true

Monday, 25 June 2018

What you feel is true

The Speaking Tree | Spirituality | ET

By Kailash Vajpeyi

The doctrine of epistemology lays emphasis on our ability to cognise reality and its sources. As a theory of knowledge, epistemology also underlines methods of cognition, truth and ways of attaining it. Unlike materialism, epistemology looks for a higher reality as against apparent reality. It asserts that cognition is reflection of some mystical idea that needs to be discovered with the help of perception as things are not what they appear to be.

Cognition is the process of reflection and reproduction of reality in our mind. In the process, we acquire knowledge and the innate nature of truth. Jaimini’s Mimansa school believed in the self-inherent authority of the Vedas. Verbal testimony of shabda was regarded as the only means by which knowledge could be obtained.

At the root of cognition, there is a complicated dialectical process taking place in different forms, having its own degrees of development. Cognition begins with sense perception of things. Sensation, perception, notion, investigation and observation of phenomena are essential ingredients of epistemology. Sensations bring man in touch with the external world.

Discovering the flip side of reality is the main task of epistemology. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perception, what we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for, in turn, depends on what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.

DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.

Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta

7. Works are neither black nor white for the yogis; for others they are threefold- black, white and mixed.

when the Yogi has attuned perfection, his actions, and the Karma produced by those actions, do not bind him, because he did not desire them . He just works on he works to do good, and he does good, but does not care for the result and it will not come to him, But, for ordinary men, who have not attained to that highest state works are of three kinds, black (evil actions) white (good action) and mixed. Courtesy RjaYoga

But, if He exists?

I drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.

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