Knowledge runs down.

The majority of the references on the Wikipedia page on the Upanishads are Western white dudes. Unfortunate.

One of the people cited is Max Muller, who wrote that the Upanishads are, “in the true sense of the word, guesses at truth, frequently contradicting each other, yet all tending in one direction.”

Regardless of the sketchiness of wikipedia, and the many levels of wiki philosophy entries that led me to reading about the Upanishads, that seems like a nice goal for my own understanding of the world and my own writing collections for that matter.

I’m not trying KNOW the Truth, just gesture at it and uncover interesting features of it.

From my understanding of the Kantian transcendental idealism I was reading this evening, it’s not possible to know the true thing-as-itself of any object. Presumably this excludes the possibility of actually understanding what is true. So the Upanishads’ guesses at the truth is about as honest and accurate as you can get in these limited little flesh sacks.

Love and I might be a lil drunk, Jordie