Only when doubts begin to arise the quest of truth begins

 Most people think what  they know is ultimate truth.  And also they have attitude that “What they know is right, what others know is wrong.” This unfortunate vanity is common to all men and prevents realization of ultimate truth or Brahman. One   must begin by doubting his own knowledge, and then only he is fit for pursuit of truth.

Only when doubts begin to arise the quest of truth begins. And such doubts usually first start verifying the validity of all his accumulated knowledge. 

With the ancients truth seeking began with wonder, with moderns it begins with doubts. How one has to know that his estimate of life is a correct one? 

Everything has to be investigated   and believed on reason based on facts, and then only may one accept it as truth in order to know that others have reached the same conclusion. But when a man depends on scriptures and opinions and uses it as proof very extensively it is because of his inferiority complex.  Only one has to highlight the scriptural citation which will help the seeker in his inner journey after deeper verification.   

Seeker must go to the very fundamentals, to the root of thinking, to “grasp the principles and not merely repeat the words of scriptures or intellectual’s opinion.  Since the scriptures an intellectual base their theories on the waking entity or ego, which is the false self, whereas the ultimate truth is based on consciousness, which is the innermost self “Self”. Thus physical based opinions have no value in pursuit of truth. Whatever is based on consciousness as self has to be accepted as truth.

·         How do seeker know what others says is true? 

This question must come to the seekers mind whenever a doctrine is presented. That truth is known only by intuition is wrong. It is known by soul-centric Reason.

Whatever one knows that what he has seen by the intuition which he praise as the highest faculty, to accept as true that is a difficult question. That all his doubts are cleared, he means his doubts on every question about his true existence. Ultimate truth cannot be realized if one not begun by having doubts about the physical existence.