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 sorrow as well? Is it not freedom from fear that is secured by knowing reality?
These are questions, which have agitated most minds, and it is certain that these questions have been answered in various ways. To know Reality means to get beyond the stage of asking - these questions. These questions become irrelevant. Perhaps, more positively, it can be said that freedom from fear and sorrow happens. So also the fear of being in the wrong or going wrong. We could also go beyond birth and death, which are the two poles of our existence as human beings, if reality is known. We would be beyond all ignorance and its manifestation also. But the most important attainment is something that comprises all the above and leads us beyond, to the experience of ourselves as we are in ourselves, and that is, in reality.
In yoga we aim at knowing Reality, and, in a sense, we have immense faith that we can know it. Undoubtedly this kind of knowledge is different from what we know in respect of objects known through the senses, and inferences based on them. Strictly speaking, truth is considered to be the real existence of a thing, as we know it. Or rather our knowledge is true when it states the reality of the object or its nature. Truth becomes almost relative to our knowing, and also of others knowing. The seeker after Reality, therefore, goes beyond truth in a sense, and this transcendence of truth is really transcendence over relativity and attainment of reality, which is the absolute. Nietzsche rightly stated that the last bondage that man faces is the bondage to truth. In a similar vein Sankara also held God to be our last bondage which we have to discard. Reality transcends truth-valuations. If one means to know Reality, one has finally to transcend truth-valuations. It does not mean that Reality is false or that the determinations by truth are to be discarded in favour of libertine and licentious falsehoods. On the contrary we pass beyond the truth and falsehood of our creation, even as we pass beyond the realms of good and bad. In a general way it can be seen that out of falsehood good ensures; out of illusion, knowledge; and this reveals that one is instrumental to the other by displaying the need for a firmer understanding. The relative knowledge claims an absolute, even as every failure eggs one on towards success. Every condition has to be transcended on the path towards the Ultimate Reality.
































































































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