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We  find a beautiful description of the ultimate reality in the Nasadiya Sukta, which is the 129th hymn (sukta) of the 10th Mandala of the Rig Veda. Here is a translation of this sukta: The Creation Hymn of Rig Veda.

We discover that

1. The ultimate reality is UNKNOWABLE. 
2. The ultimate goal is TO KNOW.

But, this is an anomaly. How was this anomaly resolved way back in the beginning?

The UNKNOWABLE has to be beyond knowable. The ancient theories based on Vedas called it “Nirākār Brahman”. In the modern times, Kant philosophized it as the “thing-in-itself”.

What this basically means is that, in the beginning, we felt that something could be there but we had no idea what it was. What followed then?

Vedas say that the Nirākār Brahman manifested itself through Māyā. This is like saying that Kant’s thing-in-itself somehow became known.

More scientifically, we may say that we “perceived” the unknowable by making a postulate about what could be there. The funny thing is that we then knew only our postulate and not the unknowable. The Unknowable simply triggered a postulate in us. Let’s look at what a postulate is.

POSTULATE
We sense this universe because it is substantial. It forms our entire consciousness. We are conscious of it because it has acquired a meaning. This meaning is provided by POSTULATES. Dictionaries define ‘postulate’ as a creative thought that is claimed to be true. It is then used as a basis for reasoning. For example, Einstein’s theory of relativity is based on the postulate, “The speed of light in a vacuum is constant for all observers, regardless of their motion.” This postulate has profound implications for our understanding of space and time. In general, a postulate brings clarity to what we sense. All scientific theories, philosophic rumination and religious faiths have begun with postulates. 

We are now saying that postulates also underlie our reality, which we call the knowable universe. 

Our ultimate goal then becomes to discover and know the postulates, from which we reason our reality.

But, ultimately, there has to be that first postulate followed by subsequent postulates. This means that there must be continuity, consistency and harmony among the postulates that determine our reality.

And, we arrive at those postulates by resolving all the violations of continuity, consistency and harmony in our reality. These violations are called anomalies.

ANOMALY
An ANOMALY is something that doesn’t make sense. Actually, an anomaly is a violation of ONENESS, in the form of discontinuity (missing data), inconsistency (contradictory data), or disharmony (arbitrary data). An anomaly is basically a misalignment among concepts. As you look closely at an anomaly, it resolves into concepts. The concepts arrange themselves into a consistent order. This allows missing, contradictory and arbitrary data to be straightened out. The anomaly then blows.

This is a new look at how to discover the ultimate reality.

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