Page 13 - Basic Writings of Sriramchandra

Introduction to the Basic Writings of Sri Ramchandra
of a new power of consciousness far above the conventional pramanas or ways of knowing. It is something of a revelation by the Divine, an exposure of the Divine to the seeker or an uncovering of the Divine of the inner reality which sustains and supports all the known and knowable realities which we call truth and to which the criteria of truth and error apply. This primal condition is the Dawn.
Having explained the Dawn what is the Reality that one apprehends at that stage. Reality is to what truth corresponds. But it is more than truth. And thought it is that goes by the name of truth and it is thought that makes the correspondence possible. But some levels of thought especially the discursive can never know Reality and limits itself to consistency of one thought or idea with another.
Truth is thus said to be judged by coherency with a system of knowledge or truths or consistency between the several truths belonging to one and the same level or to different levels. Thus uncontradicted knowledge is said to be truth. This is fairly applicable to the areas of our sources of knowledge but totally inapplicable to Reality that transcends them or incapable of being fully covered or embraced by them either singly or collectively. Thus Shri Ram Chandraji affirms that where philosophy ends spirituality begins. It begins with wonder or mystic experience. The mystic seer wishes to probe into that which is beyond thought
v