#Absolute Truth
Truth is what is real, what is not a delusion, error, or illusion. The word absolute has many meanings, such as ultimate, complete, unconditioned, unlimited, subject to nothing, and that to which everything is subject.
Everything in this world, no matter how real it seems, is only a creation, because nothing created itself and nothing existed all the time. We can understand this from the fact that everything changes. The Absolute Truth alone does not change; it creates, maintains, and destroys everything. Various traditions speak of this.
Saint Augustine speaks about this in his “Confessions” (7.11, 11.4): “I looked on those other things below You, and I saw that they neither altogether are, nor altogether are not. They exist, because they are from You; but they do not exist, because they are not what You are. For that truly is, which remains unchangeable… Heaven and earth are beautiful and good, and they are, because God made them; but compared with You, they are neither beautiful, nor good, nor are they.”
Vedanta teaches that the world is a “work of art” (māyā-maya). Vedanta distinguishes the relative reality of the creation from the greater reality of the Creator (māyin, nirmāṇakāra), in whom the paradigm of creation lies. The world is God’s providence, and it is truly only our fault if we confuse “the things that were made” with the reality according to which they were made, the phenomenon with what this phenomenon represents.