When
I wrote about water, I was trying to show that truth changes according to
circumstance. Ask: Does the sun rise in the east? You will have many contradicting
answers, yet all are right to the level of understanding capacity of the
listener.
Sun rises in the East (right for the ordinary)
Where the sun rises is East (right for the educated)
Sun never rises nor sets (right for the highly educated ones)
You also ask: “Does 'truth' even
exist?”
1)
It depends on your definition of what truth is. When
someone is owning up what he says you may say he is truthful. Finding someone
as speaking truth during a job interview, you may appoint him in your company. But
when you find his later actions as proving that he was only trying to impress
you during interview with his truthfulness which he obviously used as a means
to get into your company to undermine your good-will, what you called truth in
the beginning would be actually falsehood in the over-all perspective even
though it s true in the limited perspective.
2)
During war time, what is normal activity like driving
the vehicle with head-light on during the night would be wrong. And during peace,
driving the vehicle without head-light on during night would be wrong. Yet
there is an underlying principle that remains unchanged which you can call
truth—safety of the people during peace time, and safety of the country as a
whole during war time.
In the broader perspective we can say what exists is true—what is
transient is true for a limited period, and what remains as the invisible support
to the transient is true for unlimited period. For example, a seed has a
physical appearance which remains for some time and disappears later. Yet it
has an invisible software programme in which future generations remain
protected which can be called true for longer period.
