ABSTRACT
In analysing Gandhi’s philosophy, Akeel Bilgrami distinguishes between a cognitive notion of truth and an experiential or moral one derived from what he describes as general metaphysical conceptions of the world. This chapter contemplates some of the questions raised by Bilgrami’s distinction between cognitive and experiential notions of truth. The divisions between knowledge and belief or the physical and the metaphysical are sustainable only by means of an artificial rupturing of dimensions that are interwoven. Spiritual practice holds the potential for a gradual realisation of spiritual truths. Practice can transform a prioris into understanding and knowing if the spirit of this process is to be honoured others can only be invited to consider these propositions, to contemplate them in context of their practice and be free to arrive at their own conclusions. Thus, it is that such knowledge once integrated is generally conveyed as philosophy, poetry or accounts of experience and experimentation.
