Forget God; attend to the cat

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Question: Sir, you said that facts lead to Truth. Can we say that only facts can lead to Truth?

Acharya Prashant (AP): Facts take us to the door of Truth. After that, one never knows what will happen.

If you want a more definitive statement, a more definitive statement is: facts give you freedom from illusion.

That is a more definitive statement.

Listener 1 (L1): And isn’t that the Truth?

AP: Freedom from illusion? Not yet, not yet.

L1: What is left then?

AP: You are still at the gate. Just said, that all observation is subjective. The subject is still left. So facts will give you freedom from a lot but the one who kept gathering the facts, a bit of him is still left. It’s like you are asking everybody to leave the room, and after everybody has left, you are still left. Just a little bit.

L1: Won’t that be the last step towards Truth because there is nobody to observe, and I’ll observe my Self, and then I’ll see the falseness of my Self?

AP: When? After everybody else has gone?

L1: Yes.