Elephant and the Five Blind Men
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"There is an elephant in front of you, can you guess how it looks like?"
The first blind men caught the elephant's tail, the second its ears, the third its legs, the fourth its tusks, and the fifth one touched its back.
Based on their experience they all came up with radically different answers.
The first blind man who had caught the elephant's tail concluded,
"The elephant is definitely like a rope.
" The second one, who had caught its ears strongly disagreed and said, "No! It's like a saucepan.
" The third blind man who had caught its leg concluded that an elephant is like fat pole.
The fourth one, who had caught the tusk, thought it was like a stick, and the fifth one, who touched the back was absolutely sure it was like a rock.
They all started quarreling over the matter and never reached a conclusion.
Telling this story to his disciples, a holy man said, "Just like the five blind men, most people have only partially experienced God, and useless quarrels take place in religious discourses."
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