TRUTH, PARTITIONED AND WHOLE

TRUTH, PARTITIONED AND WHOLE

Tell me which part of the atmosphere is Christian ✝️ atmosphere, which part Muslim ☪️ and which part Hindu 🕉? And I am not being simplistic but meditative. A big deal is made of socioreligious compulsions that prompt one to narrow down one's scope of vision and views. But the social man is not everything that there is to life and truth. If truth in its entirety is not lived out at least in a few individuals, the whole of society suffers. The health of all depends on the affirmation of truth as it is and not as dictated by political dispensations. Swami Vivekananda had famously said, "Truth does not pay homage to society, ancient or modern. Society must pay homage to truth or die." Today, in our fractured polity, in the vitiated communal atmosphere pervading and perverting people's minds, we need once more to affirm the eternal truths of the Vedas which call forth the dignity of man in divine terms and which reject the surface differences as inconsequential to human evolution in the long run. India has always stood for such catholicity and she must once more stand firm on such secure basis for not only her own survival but for that of the world as well.

Written by Sugata Bose