Truth is for the seekers. There is a place where truth remains hidden for the seeker to experience
his thrill—in the vocabulary of different languages. When I was studying
in Mount Holyoke, I had the opportunity to mingle with many foreign students
and thus to my surprise came to know certain words are like a treasure of truth
in at least one language among the vast reservoir of languages which means you
have to continue your search for the truth of one word till you get it through
different languages. For example, take the word ‘king’ and start seeing the meaning
of it in all the languages and you will find it means a person ruling with
dynastic root, then suddenly you find in one language, the word ‘king’ is the summarized form of this
sentence: “one who brings delight to all of
his subjects and keeps them (of various interests) reconciled to each other.”
To mention a few other words which my search took me to the truth:
Family =
Place where delight results when members get together
House =
Building from which you depart forever
Son =
One who ensures no dishonor happens to his father
Soul =
That which is made of knowledge and acts egoless
Intelligence =
Reading between lines/happenings and arriving at intuitive discernment
Diabetes =
Sweet urine
Ego =
Opposite of construction (egoless = construction)
Personality = That which is visible on the outside, like a
mask on the face
World =
Place where mostly illogicality is abundant and logicality is too rare; rationality is irrationalized and vice versa
Hell =
Me-first attitude
Heaven =
Living in awareness of common origin of all humans.
Worship =
Engaging in something fully focused as happens during dating and courting
Knowledge = from know (Greek gnosis,
Sanskrit gyan), that which causes you to say wo, in awe. Hence Socrates said: “Philosophy begins in wonder.” (from Plato’s Theaetetus).
Philosopher Immanuel Kant famously remarked that two things filled him with awe
and wonder: “the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me.”
