Page 10 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

this is the Brahman, this is the Reality which once being known all get known. It is described as Sat, as containing the root of all existence or satyasya satyam. This is the Asat in the sense that it is the Non-existence that was prior to all this existence. It is the That (Tam) which is to be known, seen and entered into if one seeks liberation from the cycle of births and deaths. The philosophers have claimed that this has to be contemplated upon if one seeks to attain Truth. In fact truth is the Ultimate-the Primal Being which is verily non-existence to all the ways of knowing that man has at his command-perception, inference, analogy and even the Sabda or scriptural revelation. But it is something that could be known perhaps by being instructed by the seer by means of transmission of a new power of consciousness far above the conventional pramanas or ways of knowing. It is something of a revelation by the Divine, an exposure of the Divine to the seeker or an uncovering of the Divine of the inner reality which sustains and supports all the known and knowable realities which we call truth and to which the criteria of truth and error apply. This primal condition is the Dawn.
Having explained the Dawn what is the Reality that one apprehends at that stage. Reality is to what truth corresponds. But it is more than truth. And thought it is that goes by the name of truth and it is thought that makes the correspondence possible. But some levels of thought especially the discursive can never know reality and limits itself to consistency of one thought or idea with another.
Truth is thus said to be judged by coherency with a system of knowledge or truths or consistency between the several truths belonging to one and the same level or to different levels. Thus uncontradicted knowledge is said to be truth. This is fairly applicable to the areas of our sources of knowledge but totally inapplicable to Reality that transcends them or incapable of being fully covered or embraced by them either singly or collectively. Thus Shri Ram Chandraji affirms that where philosophy ends spirituality begins. It begins with wonder or mystic experience. The mystic seer wishes to probe into that which is beyond thought and sense and even the individual ego-sense. He is determined to realise Reality through thought if possible if not through being itself. In one sense then being becomes the mode by which Being can be apprehended or grasped or made real to oneself. This is