Truth and the world

 'If I would have met my Master, I would have raised a spiral ladder from here in earth to Sri Vaikunta bringing down all separating walls in-between.' so said Sri Ramanuja regarding his Guru, Swami Alavandar. And one thing becomes certain that there is an impassable wall between this earth and that Transcendent Abode. Are not all ideologies simply this enthusiasm in various forms, the enthusiasm to make this earth a heaven.? To think 'has it ever been possible?' is reckoning. To ask 'Is it first of all possible?' is criticism. To opine 'It is never possible' is pessimism. To be confident that such a thing is after all possible is optimism. Perhaps to think 'we will rest content with whatever is possible to whatever extent' - is it realism? may be. A game of words?

But Michel Foucault has a point here when he says :

Truth is a thing of this world.

Or Martin Heidegger :

The all-decisive question - What happens when the distinction

between a true world and an apparent world falls away? What becomes of the metaphysical essence of truth?

One talks about truth in a singular world. Another tries to tutor us about two worlds, one apparent, another true. So two truths? or one truth in the twin-world?

But is it not funny that all these persons were talking in and about this world, where it has become the custom to make truths saleable.!

Do you want me to say the truth? Who is Ayn Rand?

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Srirangam Mohanarangan

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