Easy path to the truth

Magical Mindful Living
10 hours ago
3 min read

Lately I have been thinking a lot about truth. I have seen read and followed a lot of truth seekers in this life. Naturally as I have been born into a truth seeking religion. Obviously without my choice, but it has shaped me ahead of many others in the world who would not come across this unless they were driven by a natural instinct to know why to the every question they try to solve. But having observed many truth seekers and looking at myself I see there is a monetary value to the truth. But only in specific situations.

Inherent value of truth.

Truth has no inherent value. Let's say you are a leader of a jungle tribe. And having lived in the jungle, with your ancestors you know some truths about the jungle. You know every stream and spring where water can be found. You know where tigers roam at night, and you know where to find which medicine when someone falls ill. Let's look at one specific truth. Having to know all the water sources is a truth for yourself. It doesn't have an inherent value, as long as there is plenty of rain, everyone in your tribe has easy access to water. But when a drought hits your part of the country, everyone will be looking for water, and your truth will be valued as life. When the need arises you can even monetise your truth. Without giving them directions to the water source, you can start selling water. And even a little bit of marketing would make you popular even among other tribes.

Inherent value of truth is nill. And only the one who have seen the truth themselves would know this. For everyone else truth can have an enormous value to a negative value. Depending on their own judgement. I can give you some evidence for this.

Evidence for the monetary value of truth.

If there is no monetary value for truth, there would never be churches so big. In midevial times, in every village there was a church and it was one of the biggest buildings in the town. Mostly built by devotees with their hard earned money as for them truth has an enormous value. They haven't reached it. Did anyone bothered to tell them that truth has no inherent value? Once you achieved it the seeking stops and it loses all the value?

What's true about church, is true about temples, kovils and thousands of shrines. I'm not saying being religious is bad and you should stop truth seeking. It's the opposite. I'm trying to tell you that what you are seeking is valuable then it's likely you will end up in some illusion, not the truth. And the opposite is also true.