Experiments with Truth

THE LIGHT OF TRUTH – SATYA  

A ‘Truth’ quizzical about the veracity of most truths,
Practiced with oneness of adoration
As being the eternal bedrock of material life and
Trumpeted as God
Could only be the ‘Truth’ – the ‘Satya’ - Gandhi experimented.

Fashioning ‘Truth’ as passion,
An impulse in his life,
So dear to let the freedom perish at its cost,
Without wanting deification,
Shrouding in mystery and
Waiting for the metaphysics to unfold,
Gandhi worshiped ‘Truth’ as Supreme Force.
He practiced as a means of self-realisation,
An instrument of knowing – constructing the knowledge of God,
As a quest for being alive; experiencing the material world.

As a seeker of ‘Truth’, that is ‘Satya’, 
Emanating from the essence – the ‘Sat’, 
It marked by its omniscience as God.
The knowledge of Him was truth enough,
Revealed in the form of consciousness,
Giving meaning to love, to ‘Ahimsa’ – non-violence,
And surpassing language and reason
Among believers and non-believers alike.

The practice of ‘Ahimsa’ reveals the ‘Truth’,
Leads to its consciousness
And brings about the unity of our being.
‘Satya’ and ‘Ahimsa’ begin to define together
Human character and conduct – a personal way of living
And mediate as the instruments of augmenting humility, 
Withering away egoism,
Addressing social injustices,
Setting example of an exemplary life and 
Harmonising all the creatures on the planet.

But the ‘Truth’ Gandhi espoused for himself,
From his vantage point, 
Turns out in fragments -- in relative terms
as relative truths, quite like human existence.
For ‘Truth’ cannot be, we are warned, taken as universal
Without clinging fragments, taken from different point of views – 
Together for realisation the of absolute truth,
Perhaps through cultivation of pure consciousness and,
To evade subjectivity and any impending fanaticism.