Sunday, 27 August 2017

Differences: Truth, Fact and Reality

Today’s English
August 27th, 2017
Truth has the following three characteristics:
1.It is “only one", not having two or more forms like lie. Oneness is its nature.
2.Truth never changes at any time, under any circumstances. 
3.It’s eternal, exists for ever, beyond destruction, though everything in the universe including all of us will come to an end one day.
We say God is truth because He has the above three characteristics.
Fact versus truth
Fact is what is known, tested, proved and accepted to be true.  Fact is not truth in the sense that it changes from time to time.  If you say that someone is young and beautiful, it is a fact, not truth.  After some years, the same person may not be young and beautiful. If you say that somebody is poor that is not truth but fact that may change one day.   What you said once becomes false now.  Fact is to be proved whereas truth is to be felt, realized. Fact is accepted from outward evidence but truth arises from your heart, from the centre of your own self. Truth becomes experience but fact becomes your data  and knowledge.
Reality and Truth
Truth that is different from or against what is known, perceived or accepted is reality.  What is hidden and not brought into light for a duration of time is reality.  We use this term when something is contradictory or different from the already known one.
Call your wife "your wife." That’s truth. Call your wife a beautiful angel. That’s a fact.  Call your wife the most innocent one (at the time of marriage) and the reality may be different that will come to light one day.
Example sentences:
1.It’s true that everything changes in course of time.
2.Tell me the fact. Is he really qualified for the job?
3. As a matter of fact, nobody believed in the news telecast by that channel.
4. I couldn’t digest the reality that many learned Ph.D guides are money-minded and Hitlers.
5. Many ads on shampoo gives assurance for hair growth but, in reality, they lead to hair fall.
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
- Mark Twain

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