Daak Weekly: The Different Paths to Truth
In our search for truth and the threads of connection to it within our lived reality, spiritual leaders have long emphasized a singular 'Truth.' However, the beauty of the human condition is our ability to approach, pursue, and understand this truth through different avenues such as religion, art, poetry, science, and personal experience. In fact, one can argue that every act of creativity is an exploration and ultimately a tribute to this universal truth.
Despite science often being viewed as detached from emotion, true scientists have often attested that beneath a clinical pursuit of knowledge lies an enduring curiosity and a love for the world's mysteries. This passion for discovery and understanding is exemplified by figures like Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose. His inaugural address on November 30, 1917, dedicating the Bose Institute to the service of the nation, is a timely reminder of the profound insight and wisdom that scientists can offer, and an ode to the selfless and relentless pursuit of truth.
Like scientists, poets have also urged us to turn from material pursuits and seek truth and connection in nature and spirituality — a perennial gift that keeps on giving. In his very short life, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio managed to articulate this tenet in the form of a lyrical poem, “A Walk by Moonlight.” A young achiever, Derozio was appointed a teacher of English Literature and History at the Hindu college at 17 years of age. He introduced his students to Western science and radical ideas, and strongly encouraged debate and discussion around social and political issues. His poetry remains a comforting reminder that nature offers the answers and solace we desperately seek.
Whether through the lens of science, the brushstrokes of an artist or the pen of a poet, the quest for truth can take countless paths; as long as we commit to this exploration, we will continue to find meaning and fulfilment.
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Physicists must be poets; they may have not discovered this fact yet but for dissecting the anatomy of sunlight; split opening its colourful spectrum and observing its duality to shape-shift from traversing waves to a speck of brilliance, it can only be done by a poet at work. For poets love to see beyond the reach of eyes and underneath the skin of things; searching for universal truth, carrying thought experiments in a tucked away corner - where time ceases to exist, momentarily - a paradoxical state - a playground that suits to the likings of physicists. Thus, physicists must be poets or maybe just maybe somewhere in a different universe; poets must be physicists, where laws of physics are but poetry.