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Seven blind men went to get an idea of the elephant. Each of them could feel with his hands only one part of the huge animal, and when they sat down to compare notes, they began to quarrel. The one who had only felt the elephant's leg said that the animal was like a huge round pillar; the other who had felt the tail declared the animal to be merely like a stick; while the third who had felt the elephant's ear affirmed on oath that both of them were wrong, for, he was sure the elephant was like a winnowing basket. Thus they quarrelled without any hope of coming to terms for each had the conviction of personal experience in the matter. Till, at last, a man with eyes told them that they were all right and all wrong. They were right because each of them had stated a part of the truth; and they were wrong because they wanted to pass a partial truth for the whole truth. Put all the partial truths together and you get the whole elephant.
THE WHOLE TRUTH,
Every difference in religious and phillosophical ideas, in fact, in all opinions and beliefs may, in this light, be understood to furnish not a cause for quarrel, but a welcome step
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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