To the spiritual seeker, the meaning of truth is neither a scientific nor an intellectual concept. It is that reality, the ultimate principle, in which there is no change or any distortion. It is experienced through awareness and deeply connects to one’s inner self. The inner insight into the ultimate reality, encompassing God, love, and reality, all converge as one eternal truth. Meaning goes beyond perceptions, beliefs, faith, appearances, identity, and attachments. Summing up, all that exists is ‘Maya’ – illusions that appear real but are not.

Truth is not a destination but a disclosure, where you remove one layer after another to uncover the ultimate reality. It is that substratum upon which all transient existences prevail. From a psychological perspective, we have a conditioned mind that is obsessed with beliefs, faith, cultural programming, media, and the internet. Based on past experiences, individual minds project their presentation of truth in different aspects. This projection may feel real but remains distorted due to mental misrepresentations and emotional desires in duality, which tend to change over time.

Scientifically, truth is a discovery based on what we observe and measure, which often changes over time as new evidence emerges. A spiritual seeker experiences these truths in the material world, fully understanding their limitations. Science explains the ‘how’ of everything happening, but fails to uncover the “why” it occurs.

For this reason, spirituality demands continuous discipline in Dhyana (meditative contemplation), Dharna (concentration), Smriti (spiritual memory), Sadhna (disciplined meditation), and Samadhi (mindfulness). The material truth gradually transforms, allowing the spiritual truth to reveal itself in silence.

Spiritual acumen is not about knowing more but knowing who you are as the ultimate reality. How can you dissolve your body and mind into that unity and continuity of now, selflessly merging the seeker while seeking the sought back into the awareness of that being-ness in nothingness? Untouched by doubt, distortion, and duality, when there is no need to define the truth, one becomes the truth in that silent knowing of ‘That art Thou.’- Tat Tvam Asi. Furthermore, another Sanskrit term, “Sat-Chit-Anand,” has been similarly embellished, meaning Truth-Awareness-Bliss.

Therefore, the journey of spiritual truth is transcending more inward than outward. The actual truth your mind needs to know is already within. You are that truth, love, God, and the ultimate reality from which everything appears to disappear in that nothingness of the universe.

In ultimate non-dual terms, truth is unchanging, always present, and beyond all dualistic divisions. The fundamental reality always exists; it is not something to be found or achieved.

Truth is precisely awareness—formless, timeless, and self-evident. Since ideas, impressions, or relative knowledge develop and vanish inside the domain of truth, truth does not belong there either. The instant we define the concept of truth, we separate it from its oneness, reducing it to duality and thus relating it to the framework of the mind.

Absolute non-duality is truth outside the subject and object, outside knowledge and the known; it is not “this” or “that.” The flawless, undivided presence in which all appearance passes is all there is. It is the substratum of all life, the reality that stays behind the illusion of separateness. It is neither an experience nor an attainment.

Truth is in everything and within nothing, but it is not something. It is neither findable nor losable. It is precisely what it is and always is. Truth, in spiritual terms, is pure existence, the subject of everything in the infinite nothingness of our Universe. The presence of your being-ness as that spirit in the now is the truth, a part of the whole. We cannot explain it in words; it is an experience that you feel and then realise.

In the objective world, truth is related to untruth and is limited to time and space. It is pure duality and, therefore, an illusion. What we consider ‘truth’ here is apparent and impermanent. In this relativistic world, where energy remains constant, changing its intrinsic form from matter to energy and vice versa signifies that the essential constituent of absolute energy is the truth and the Ultimate Reality.

I once read a quote: “The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the truth of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.” The truth is that most of us do not understand the inner conflict within us; neither do we bother to know ourselves truthfully. We are too occupied with judging others to judge ourselves accurately. If we do not observe the truth within us, how can we fathom the truth of actual or ultimate reality and the Universe?

The problem lies in our thoughts, embedded in past experiences, that allow the present to slip away. Life is far more significant than beliefs or a faith based on the past. If we wish to liberate ourselves, become free, and know our truth, we must allow the mind to penetrate deeper into the reality of the now. Stop clinging to the past. We must go beyond our thought processes, beliefs, traditions, illusions, apparent reality, and choices, as these create conflicts and lead us to become victimised. What you accept as accurate may just be an opinion or what any doctrine declares, a belief; these are not necessarily the truth in the real sense.

The mind cannot manifest creative intuitiveness until we escape the small ‘I’ and its limited egoistic thoughts. Only after attaining knowledge of the self does the divine ‘I’ evolve in consciousness; more awareness enters and filters through our mind, expanding our intellect. It allows us to discover the truth and the eternal presence of who we truly are, which lies beyond our emotional ego and conscious mind.

Truth is objective in its relativity, like a picture frame, which is true and accurate as long as it exists; tear the picture and break the frame and see how both disappear. Truth or reality in its absolute form is changeless, timeless, and limitless; it cannot be limited or dictated by cults, religions, or society. It cannot be imposed or conditioned by belief and tradition, a common phenomenon today.

I reiterate that the changeless, timeless, and limitless absolute truth can only be experienced and realised by the Self.

NAMASTE