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तथ्य क्या और तथ्य से परे क्या? || आचार्य प्रशांत, कृष्णमूर्ति पर (2017)
आचार्य प्रशांत
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Fact
Truth
Imagination
Personality
Kabir Saheb
Naming
Unknown
Spirituality
Description

Acharya Prashant explains the distinction between facts, imagination, and truth. He defines a fact as something that does not depend on individual personality or subjective differences; for instance, if everyone agrees a structure is a wall, it becomes a fact. However, if one labels that wall as 'great' or 'bad,' it shifts into the realm of personal opinion and imagination. He asserts that the more one's personality and personal knowledge are involved in perceiving something, the more clouded and distorted that perception becomes. Truth, on the other hand, is seeing without the interference of the personality. He notes that while a madman lives in a purely personal, imaginary world that contradicts facts, a saint transcends facts without opposing them. A saint, like Kabir Saheb, can see a common cloth as something divine while still being able to sell it in the market to sustain his livelihood. Acharya Prashant advises that in daily life, one should strive to live according to facts rather than imagination. He emphasizes that reaching the level of pure facts is a significant spiritual achievement. He points out that humans rarely see things as they truly are; for example, we rarely see a tree simply as a tree because our minds immediately attach labels, memories, and interpretations to it. This constant naming is a defense mechanism of a fearful mind seeking control and security. He suggests that if one can look at an object without the name or label immediately flashing in the mind, the duality between the observer and the observed begins to dissolve. True liberation involves being open to the 'unknown' and not restricting life only to what is already familiar and named, as the divine can only enter when one is open to the unknown.