Truth , Justice And Righteousness

Even If I am a minority of one, truth is still the truth.


--- Mahatma Gandhi.





An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.

---- Mahatma Gandhi.








Righteousness is truth in action.

---Hindu proverb


Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

---Albert Einstein



Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

---Albert Einstein





“Faith... Must be enforced by reason...When faith becomes blind it dies.”


---MAHATMA GANDHI



The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

---Thomas Paine




Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it

---Blaise Pascal


Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

---Buddha





Hope you guys understand the importance of reasoning, questioning authority from this. Why ! Because only then will we find the truth, and only when we find the truth can we implement it in action, to act righteously.

Got it......

 

Why religions should claim that they are not bound to abide by the standpoint of reason, no one knows. If one does not take the standard of reason there cannot be any true judgement, even in the case of religions.One religion may ordain something very hideous.For instance, the Mohammedan religion allows Mohammedans to kill all who are not of their religion. It is clearly stated in the Koran, "Kill the infidels if they do not become Mohammedans." They must be put to fire and sword. Now if we tell a Mohammedan that this is wrong, he will naturally ask : "How do you know that ? How do you know it is not good ? My book says it is." If you say your book is older, there will come the Buddhist, and say, his book is much older still. Then will come the Hindu, and say, his books are the oldest of all. Therefore referring to books will not do. Where is the standard by which you can compare ? You will say, look at the Sermon on the Mount, and the Mohammedan will reply, look at the Ethics of the Koran. The Mohammedan will say, who is the arbiter as to which is the better of the two? Neither the New Testament nor the Koran can be the arbiter in a quarrel between them. There must be some independent authority , and that cannot be any book, but something which is universal ; and what is more universal than reason ? It has been said that reason is not strong enough; it does not always help us to get the Truth; many times it makes mistakes , and therefore the conclusion is that we must believe in the authority of a church! That was said to me by a Roman Catholic, but I could not see the logic of it. On the other hand I should say, if reason be so weak, a body of priests would be weaker, and I am not going to accept their verdict but I will abide by my reason, because with all its weakness there is some chance of my getting at truth through it; while by the other means, there is no such hope at all.

---Swami Vivekananda