The Secret of Being Happy : 2.

The mind is made up of certain formations of thought, and therefore, it can conceive only forms, whereas Truth is formless. Has anyone seen the form of Truth? Where does it exist? Nobody knows where Truth exists, how long it will exist, who created it, and what its shape and construction are. Nothing can be said about it, and yet everybody accepts, unwittingly though, that Truth is supreme. How do we say that Truth is supreme when we know nothing about it? We have not seen it, cannot hear it, cannot touch it, cannot taste it, cannot smell it, cannot measure it, cannot calculate it, cannot argue about it, and yet we concede it is the only existent value.

This goes to prove that the essential values of life are non-calculative, non-commercial and impossible of quantitative measurement. Quantities are different from Truth values. Truth is not a quantity. It is, perhaps, if at all we can call it a quality, the highest conceivable quality.

The quality involved and hidden behind the quantity is the Truth of that quantity. What is the worth of a human being? Not the size of the body, not the weight, not the structure which is visible to the eyes. How do we judge the value or the worth of a person? Is it by looking at the height or the width or the weight or the relationship the body has with other beings? It is nothing of the kind. The worth of a human being is the quality of the human being.

The quality is different from the quantitative bodily structure. Though we know that quality is superior to quantity and the value of a human being is qualitative, we are unable to comprehend what this quality is. Inasmuch as we fail to understand the Truth value, or the quality of a human being, we make the mistake of judging the worth of a human being by riches, by possessions, and by objective relationships, which are all quantitative measurements.

Swami Krishnananda

To be continued ......