A Wisdom Archive on Truth

Knowledge is present moment awareness. In other words, on a practical level knowledge is whatever we are aware of right now. This explains the commonly used phrase 'knowledge is power', because we can only act upon what we know, and these actions can only take place in the present moment. While an action may take place in the future, its result is not entirely predictable; therefore, we cannot ... Including:

• Knowledge - Defining knowledge
• Knowledge - Knowledge management
• Knowledge - Situated knowledge
• Knowledge - Sociology of knowledge
• Knowledge - Other definitions

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While knowledge is a central part of daily life, the actual definition of knowledge is of great interest to philosophers, social scientists, and historians. Knowledge, according to most thinkers, must follow three defining criteria. It must be justified, true, and believed. Meeting these qualifications may be difficult or impossible. It is also common to weigh knowledge in how it can be applied or used. In this sense, knowledge consists of information augmented by intentionality (or direction). This model aligns with the DI ...

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Influenced by Madame Blavatsky, Annie Besant joined the Theosophical Society. Her aim was to found a universal brotherhood where race and creed don't matter, to encourage the study of literature and philosophy, and to investigate the unexplained laws of nature and the physical powers latent in man. She advocated a radical approach to religion, which emphasised that religion cannot be forced upon any one; that faith was a matter of personal belief.
 
Why did she choose to become a Theosophist? Annie Besant wrote: ''An imperious necessity forces me to speak the truth, as I see it... That one loyalty to truth I must keep stainless, whether friendships fail me or human ties be broken... I asked no other epitaph on my tomb but that 'she tried to follow truth'."

 
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Satya (Sanskrit). Supreme truth.

 
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There are four T's that need periodic revival. They are: Truth, Tradition, Trade and Technology. Time has a seeming effect on truth. Though truth is beyond time, it gets covered by maya or illusion. This is called avarana. Down the ages different schools of thought have tried to uncover the truth. Though the goal is common to all, the journey itself has to be undertaken individually. If you do not re-examine what you have learnt and believe to be the truth, you become fanatical and your intellectual growth stagnates.

 
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Paroksha (Sanskrit). Intellectual apprehension of a truth.

 
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Mahavira, a great prophet and teacher, systematised the Jain doctrines and embodied them in a comprehensive constitution of the faith. He built the edifice of Jainism by renovation, modification and extension. Most of all, he infused new life and vitality into Arhata tradition.
 
In his own time, he was referred to in Buddhist literature as "Niggantha Naatputte "and his teachings were described as "Nirgrantha Dharma ", a way of life that found its truth in the universe and not in a single scripture.
 
 

 
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Samvritisatya (Sanskrit). Truth mixed with false conceptions (Samvriti); the reverse of absolute truth - or Paramarthasatya, self-consciousness in absolute truth or reality.

 
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Zetetic [from Greek zetetikos he or that which has relation to inquiry, search, seeking -- with truth as the objective]
 
A name often given to the Skeptics among Greek philosophers, skeptic meaning originally one who is a searcher for truth at whatever cost.

 
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Satya Yuga (Sanskrit). The golden age, or the age of truth and purity; the first of the four Yugas, also called Krita Yuga.

 
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Urim (Hebrew, Jewish). See" Thummim". The" Urim and Thummim "originated in Egypt, and symbolized the Two Truths, the two figures of Ra and Thmei being engraved on the breastplate of the Hierophant and worn by him during the initiation ceremonies. Diodorus adds that this necklace of gold and precious stones was worn by the High Priest when delivering judgment. Thme (plural Thmin) means " Truth" in Hebrew. "
 
The Septuagint translates thummim, as Truth " (Bonwick). The late Mr. Proctor, the astronomer, shows the Jewish idea "derived directly from the Egyptians". But Philo Judeus affirms that Urim and Thummim were "the two small images of Revelation and Truth, put between the double folds of the breastplate ", and passes over the latter, with its twelve stones typifying the twelve signs of the Zodiac, without explanation.

 
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