Vedanta - Truth is Always New
J KRISHNAMURTI
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Truth is always new, therefore timeless. What was truth yesterday is not truth today , what is truth today is not truth tomorrow: truth has no continuity . It is the mind which wants to make the experience which it calls truth continuous, and such a mind shall not know truth.Truth is always new: it is to see the same smile and see that smile newly , to see the same person and see that person anew, to see the waving palms anew, to meet life anew.Truth is not to be had through books, through devotion or through self-immolation, but it is known when the mind is free, quiet; and that freedom, that quietness of the mind, comes only when the facts of its relation ships are understood.
Without understanding its relation ships, whatever it does only creates further problems. But, when the mind is free from all its projections, there is a state of quietness in which problems cease; and then only the timeless, the eternal, comes into being.Then truth is not a matter of knowledge, it is not a thing to be remembered, it is not something to be repeated, to be printed and spread abroad.
Truth is that which is; it is nameless. ...Truth is a state of being which arises when the mind which seeks to divide, to be exclusive, which can only think in terms of results, of achievement has come to an end. Only then will there be truth.
Without understanding its relation ships, whatever it does only creates further problems. But, when the mind is free from all its projections, there is a state of quietness in which problems cease; and then only the timeless, the eternal, comes into being.Then truth is not a matter of knowledge, it is not a thing to be remembered, it is not something to be repeated, to be printed and spread abroad.
Truth is that which is; it is nameless. ...Truth is a state of being which arises when the mind which seeks to divide, to be exclusive, which can only think in terms of results, of achievement has come to an end. Only then will there be truth.
