Search for Truth
Search for Truth
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figure in such discussions at all. In other words,
science cannot be legitimately blamed for not
helping man to grasp the ultimate reality, for this
was not something expected of it. Indeed the reality
lies far beyond the boundaries of science.
MYSTICISM
What is mysticism? According to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica, mysticism is a “quest for a hidden truth
or wisdom.” The Fontana Dictionary of Modern
Thought, defines it thus: “Mysticism is the direct
experience of the divine as real and near, blotting
out all sense of time and producing intense joy.”
Some people mistakenly think that mysticism is the
answer to the search for truth. In fact, mysticism, to
be more exact, is a sort of escapism. It seeks a refuge
rather than the truth.
According to the mystics, the final state produced
by mystical exercises is inner joy or spiritual bliss.
The subject of the present volume is the search for
truth. So far as this subject is concerned, mysticism
is quite irrelevant to it.
