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School in London Merchant trailers and I was giving this session I said when you think you've
understood things you are so clever and say I know what is truth I said I'm going to get you
out I told the youngster I'm going to catch you out Define Truth for me I said you define forget
about me I'm telling you tell me what is truth and they said you know the standard stuff I've used
this before so please forgive me if you heard this before they say Miss lakhan is 10 o'clock in the
morning just truth look atomic clock ten o'clock sharp that's truth we caught you we're given your
answer I say nope at the moment stand here in India it's uh you know five or five o'clock in
the morning five o'clock sorry it's five hours maybe 3 P.M in the afternoon so it's not true
it's not truth so oh but of course it's not and in USA is different again so even if you move
in a thousand miles either way that the time will be different so it's not truth it's all about how
it's called relative truth truth that is relative to us here today in in this current circumstances
see again you qualify this you can't sense truth is reality is just temporary kind of you know for
so far for us only then they say okay I'm just delivering why New York you know this I've done
it and it's interesting to explore what is truth because the Hinduism will say Ultimate
Reality is truth but they say what is truth now come on Define it and trouble so then you say
okay um okay I know I know truth is uh this is the standard stuff used in philosophy old swans
are white sounds like a good maybe in India also they're white swans you know near the Himalayas
oh yeah you've got you those ones are white I say in Australia that is called black swans and in no
time they can make red pink and green swans even just genetic engineering so it's no truth either
it is simply so far so good truth at the moment we only seen whites once so until you see a black one
it is the truth that's all so it's not even it's just relative I mean it's just temporary truth
then they say okay we still get you Mr lakhani and I love this they say one plus one is two
this is absolute truth and it's not really variable it is not relative it is one plus
one is true come on Mr lakhani we caught you it sounded so clever I said no it's not true
in reality and I gave this example but the other examples I can use I said suppose you went to your
Chemistry laboratory and you found one drop of chemical into another drop of chemical and
you kind of put them together so you get one here and one you put them together it's just because a
bigger lump of you know a drop of water so it's a one small drop of water another drop of water you
get a slightly bigger drop of water when you add them your mathematics one plus one is one bigger
one but one you must sound silly but it's really true with quantum physics the quantum phenomena
is precisely that one plus one is not true in a Quantum one plus one can be one and a half one
and a quarter one in three quarter or zero we say one plus one is zero yes it's like this is like a
vector one going up one going down so you cancel each other out full stop not zero one plus one is
zero so you see so what why is happening why why is arithmetic failing so dramatically it is this
is called Truth which is called a priority to this in the Latin word a priori truth of convenience
when you have one marble another marble we add them say one plus one is two tick tick
yeah when you have one drop another drop yeah one plus one is one see different mathematics it
in straight away call it a priority truth you want it to be that that's why it is that you
know the example interesting one suppose you say you know the angles surround a circle are 360
Degrees that's how yes we've learned in Geometry you know we are forced to learn all this stuff
and the angles within a triangle 180 degrees okay now it's truth it's not truth it's just
you decided to call the angle 360 Degrees that's why they're 360. if you say Let It Be 400 yeah
400 so it's just a truth of convenience this is called a priori truth so one plus one two is an
R priority two it's not absolute truth so we see where we are started from where we Define truth
I'm telling you you define truth you'll have great difficulties it's not that's straightforward kind
of nice insight into how it kind of simple word like is in truth or now you have great
from defining love as well by the way so these every time you try and get it you know kind of
refine grasp on this idea suddenly discover the things are not as straightforward as they appear
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