Resurgent Culture - Chapter-1.1. Swami Krishnananda
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, May 16, 2021. 07:26.AM. Chapter 1: The Goal of Life-1. *1. What Is Truth? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We say we live in a world, because we perceive and experience certain phenomena which impinge on our senses and make us feel that we are in an objective environment. This supposed environment in which we appear to be placed is felt by us to be a complex situation that influences not only our individual personalities but also other individuals whose existence we observe intuitionally, as it were. We are aware, by analysis, experiment and observation, that broadly speaking, we have three avenues of knowledge, two of which are in direct relation to our normal world-experience, and one is unknown to most of us. These channels of perception are sense, reason and intuition. Sense-perception reveals to us that we are in a world from which we are