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THE SUPPLEMENTARY PAPERS
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PHILOSOPHY 5
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Love for Truth
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THE SUPPLEMENTARY PAPERS
PHILOSOPHY 5
Love for Truth
In the first place, the love for truth is inborn when the soul is mature, and the love for truth is a natural outcome of one's whole study. Very often people ask, "What is the nature of truth, is it a theory, a principle, a philosophy, or a doctrine?" All theories, philosophies, principles, and doctrines are only a cover over the truth. The ultimate truth is that which cannot spoken, for words are too inadequate to express it.
It is as difficult, not to say as impossible, for a person to explain the truth in words as it is to try and point out God. That is why Sufis have called God "the Truth," and truth "God." In the Sanskrit language, truth is called Sattya; and Sattya is the highest attainment for the seeking souls. The knowledge of truth is the ultimate object of all religions; it is the seeking of all philosophies; it is the spirit of all doctrines. But it is the nature of man that he becomes disappointed with these forms of truth; he wants to find truth outside him when it is really hidden within him in his own heart.
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