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पुरुषार्थसिद्धयुपाय wall, and the one who touched the tusk said that the elephant was like a solid pipe.
Upon this, a quarrel arose as to who was the truthful witness among them, and from words they speedily came to blows. At this juncture, there appeared on the scene a man who was not blind like them, and who had actually seen an elephant. With great difficulty he was able to reconcile them by explaining to them that what each one of them had felt with his hands was not the whole animal, but only a part of his body. Moral: ‘Men of this world are like the blind men of the parable; they insist on their partial knowledge being accepted for the whole truth.'
Anekāntavāda
...Jainism points out that all the above schools of thought have fallen into error on account of their one-sidedness. They only look at things from one particular point of view, and ignore all others. This is not the way to deal with the living Reality, which overflows speculation on all sides. Hence, if anyone wishes to get hold of the whole truth, he must first put himself in different attitudes to study things from all possible points of view. This particular method of study, called anekānta, is the one which Jainism itself adopts. With its aid it not only points out the element of truth in all other religions, but also rectifies their errors. It gives us a many-sided, and, therefore, the necessarily true, view of things.
Jain, C.R., The Key of Knowledge, p. 488.
लोकत्रयैकनेत्रं निरूप्य परमागमं प्रयत्नेन । 3141977Ulcferrà façat qnareffhoseuritsu911
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