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In such a situation nothing of the outside remains. How can an ignorant one adopt a wise man's profile? The matter is the same. The wise one interprets it differently and the ignorant one, differently. The event is the same, the principle is the same, but the wise one understands it in a different manner and the ignorant one in a different manner.
Awakening of wisdom: development of non-violence
There is a story. Three students were learning from a teacher. The teacher wanted to test them. He gave them each a hen made of flour and said, “Cut his neck where no one can see.” The prince went. The teacher's son went. And Narada also went. The three took their flour hen and separated. The prince went to the forest and thought that nobody could see him there. He broke the neck and came home. The teacher's son thought that in the open birds would see him and so he went into the isolated space of a cave. He broke the neck and came home. Narada went far into the forest into a very desolate place. Then he went deep into a cave. In pitch darkness he thought nobody would be able to see and began to break the neck, when he stopped. He felt his soul
Anekanta: The Third Eye
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