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The journey to know oneself is the toughest. Sages and wise men must mean this only when they refer to self realization! ‘A man who knows so much about outside knowledge, facts and figures is actually so much ignorant about his own inner self’, is the only truth; and this was so loud and clear the other day on this programme, Sach Ka Samna, when the Quiz master Rajeev Khandelwal was up with his 15th question to Raja Chaudhary.

Having answered 14 questions out of 21 in his endeavor to earn Rs. 1 crore, he fumbled on the 15th attempt. I would actually like to grant him this mistake. His ‘untruth’ or ‘lie’ as pronounced by Polygraph machine was in fact the truth of we, the living.
He had braved highly embarrassing questions about his married life (bitter and divorced), that there was no visible reason for him to have made a folly this 15th time. To many, this ‘lie’ may mean differently. They have their own right to think that way. To me, it was like this.

Many a times, we start perceiving an image of our own selves which is not actually a reality. Our ideals, wisdoms, goals are all matters of our perception. Similarly our commitments, ways, and means in our lives are also only our perception. These perceptions most of the times are only a ‘reflection of what and how we should be’ rather than ‘how and what we are’. And we all fall in the ‘habit’ of looking at our own selves in the manner as to ‘how we should be’. This keeps our inner self at peace! We, unknowingly and unwittingly, weave a trap and fool our ‘selves’ into it. The trap becomes so thick that we lose sight of things lying beyond, and this ‘disconnect’ is ‘the truth’ for most of us.

Raja was no exception. After all you don’t expect a man to be a self-realized one if he has been beating his wife in the very recent past. But hey, does that mean he can never be a self-realized one?

All said and done, Raja could state a ‘fact‘of his life with honesty because he was ‘aware’ of that; and he could not answer a question on his ‘state of mind (of being an exhibitionist!)’, because he was not, in fact, ‘aware’ of that. He had already convinced his mind about his perceptions on various issues. He knew that one should not beat his wife and would have loved to be like that, if only he had continued living in his perceptions about himself. But since he had beaten his wife, this perception became a state of fact. On the other hand, his perception about his own self, i.e., whether he is an exhibitionist or not, is still under the wraps of his ‘thoughts’ only. In the case of his perception about his own self, there was no bigger fact unto himself than his perception, which was as untrue as we all feeling proud of our individual wisdoms and moralities!

‘The truth’ for all of us was a ‘lie’ for the Polygraph, because a Polygraph doesn’t allow distinction between the facts and the perceptions.

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