Mohan Bhagwat spoke at the 'One World, One Humanity' event in New York, where he shared his thoughts on the nature of humanity and truth.
He noted that he works in a society that traditionally asserts that religions may differ, but humanity is one. In his opinion, there is one truth, and humanity is a product of this truth, making it universal. Although the truth is uniform, it is presented and explained in various ways because people are limited by their own experience and frames of perception.
Drawing an analogy, he compared a human to a dog that only sees in black and white. He emphasized that even if a person cannot understand the dog's experience, it does not mean its perception is false; for the dog, it is real. Similarly, the perception of seven colors by a human is true for them, but all people ultimately experience the same foundation based on that very truth.
Bhagwat also commented on the existence of many world religions. He said that today, religious identification largely depends on their rituals and rites. Although adherence to religious disciplines and rituals is necessary to achieve divinity within a given tradition, he asked where each religion leads. According to him, they all lead to the same ultimate truth.
He used the metaphor of a finger pointing to the light: if a person looks only at the finger and not at the light itself, the goal is lost. Therefore, the search for ultimate truth is the main objective, and the divinity we call by different names, science today calls 'consciousness'.