Life is not mathematics, it is not logic, it is not science. It is something more, and that something more is the most valuable. The mystics have called that something more than the “ultimate truth”. They can be forgiven for calling it ultimate. But you have to understand the reason they are callling it ultimate is because there are people who are calling every truth relative-not only scientists, not only people who are working with matter. Mahavirs says that truth itself is ralative: he has no ultimate. Buddha has no ultimate truth. Again the difficulty is that Buddha and Mahavir can be misunderstood when they say that there is no ultimate truth but that every truth is ralative: it can be one thing in one situation, another thing in another situation, and because it is related to situations it cannot have any ultimacy. This gose against all the great mystics.
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