|| तत्वबोध -- 41|| (Cont..)

At this point we should be very clear about the SAsthric definition of sath and sathyam..

Then we all can clearly see why they are not different from one another..

SDS once defined sathyam as follows in his brmha sUthra BAshyam class..

"yath rUpENa yath niSchitahm thath rUpam na vayaBicarathi thath Eva sathyam"

"yath = THAT WHICH IS niSchitahm = ASCERTAINED yath = IN WHICHEVER rUpENa = FORM thath = (WHEN) THAT rUpam = FORM na = DOES NOT vayaBicarathi = UNDERGO ANY CHANGE thath = THAT Eva = ALONE (IS) sathyam = (THE ONLY) TRUTH



This is also the unfortunate requirement of expressing our scripture in English.. where a lot of words easily understood in samskRtham needs to be explicitely spelled..

So restated, our concept of sathyam or truth is "that whihc as is".. but we never bring in the time-bounded nature of anything in our common definition of truth..

Thus even science varies with time.. objects vary with time.. our body undergoes change constantly (remember jayathE asthi varDhathE vipariNamthE apakshIyathe vinaSyathi ithi shadvikAravath??? )

Our own mind.. absolutely needless to point out out its vascillations.. I love this person.. then I hate that person.. I could not live without so may things that I have happily given up now.. I am sure at moment this is what I want to do.. a few minutes later I am not sure..

Our own gnAnEndhriyAs or karmEndhriyAs undergo change all the time..

Even the insentient objects are constatnly undergoing change.. the mountain seems to be pretty fixed, but wind water and other forces of nature are constantly changing its structure..

As the magnificent Ganga river flowws down the himAlaya mountains, it brings down silt and rocks and tress.. changing itself and changing the environment it is in..

So everything we know we understand we interact with both sentient and insentient is constantly changing.. THUS IT IS MITHYA and NOT SATHYAM.

So is there any thing in creation which is NOT changing?

(to be continued )