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yourselves. None of you has ever seen the elephant fully. Each one of you has merely seen one limb of the elephant and from that data only you have started giving your surmises about the whole elephant. This is therefore, the cause of your quarrel. I am however, seeing the elephant every day and so I can tell you, that this elephant is not only like a supada but is also like a wooden pestle, and like a windpipe, a pillar, a water bag and like a broom. So saying he explained the whole position to them. Therefrom all these blind men became silent and; departed.
By these parables, one thing certainly becomes clear that the same thing can be examined from different stand points or points of view and any description of a thing would be true from one standpoint but from this it cannot mean that the other points of view cannot be right. From the above it follows that to comprehend the real nature of anything one must pay due regard to all points of view.
Viewing things in this light, one will have to admit that everything in this world involves endless points of views and has endless characteristics. Let us make it more clear by an
