What is truth?

What is truth? In Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism, I admit that it may indeed be a prod­uct of our imag­i­na­tion so let us imag­ine freely and not be stuck with only the imag­in­ings of the past. What­ever we can imag­ine exists on some level or other of real­ity which may not be sub­ject to empir­i­cal rea­son. Just because some­thing can­not be empir­i­cally or ratio­nally proven does not make it unreal.

Per­haps, this is where faith comes in. Every­thing we expe­ri­ence is a prod­uct of our indi­vid­ual and col­lec­tive imag­i­na­tions. If we can imag­ine some­thing better–excellent. If those imag­in­ings can be actu­al­ized in this life–great! Some things we imag­ine, dream of, desire, and long for may not be real­ized in this life, but we have faith that they will be real­ized in the next. Our desires are what manifest.

I sim­ply offer a way to increase our desire for Radha-Krishna by imag­in­ing our­selves as their inti­mate friends. We cul­ti­vate a higher taste like when we enjoy music, lit­er­a­ture, plays, art, and poetry. Free the mind from the dross, and learn to taste the inef­fa­ble beauty and bliss of spir­i­tual life. We may expe­ri­ence it our­selves and enrich our life by it, but we may not be able to prove it is real. We are deal­ing with the indi­vid­ual and col­lec­tive accu­mu­lated descrip­tions of this real­ity, which are nec­es­sar­ily inad­e­quate rep­re­sen­ta­tions of the cur­rently incom­pre­hen­si­ble Ground of Being. If we could actu­ally com­pre­hend God-dess, he-she would not be God-dess.


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