SANKARA'S SIREN OF SRUTI

Abstract

Truth is a tantalizer. It is the song which calls to every philosopher who seeks to find the basic, intrinsically intelligible bedrock of it all from which everything arises and into which experience culminates. Further, all knowledge is revelatory. Its function is to manifest the unknown. However, there is Truth with a capital 'T' and there are truths with a small "Sañkara's Siren of Sruti" posits that there are two paradigmatic approaches to the purport of religious discourse, one of which entails a most intriguing consequence.