There are people who feel that the search for truth is more fun than getting to the goal. When they find it they say no, it can’t be, and so they continue wandering in the meanders of their own mind.
Personally, when I was very young, I chose another approach, not discarding the idea that there could exist sources of perfect knowledge. Besides, I was thinking, it would not cost me anything to try, apart from having to pay the price of a small wound to my big ego grumbling, “You can create your own knowledge, no one is smarter than you, nobody can teach you.”
So I chose to seek not the knowledge but a source of knowledge. Rethinking about it now I realize that is a common thing we all do in our life. If we want to learn math we go looking for books and professors.
After so much wandering I came to the Vedas and to the schools that come from them. I had the impression to be opening an antique chest and when I looked inside I saw an immense treasure of pearls and diamonds. I am rich, I thought.
But let’s see what Srila Prabhupada said about the Vedas in the same conference I mentioned earlier.
“… What are the Vedas? The Sanskrit verbal root of the word can be interpreted differently, but at the end the meaning is the same. Veda means Knowledge.”
This is a section of the book “Brilliant As the Sun”(English).
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