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Wisdom of the Sages

1471: The Parable of the Blind Men & the Elephant

Wisdom of the Sages

David Ramella

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Seeing partial truths in different spiritual traditions / we're trying to find absolute truth with subjective lenses / knowing the one Absolute Truth as Brahman, Paramātmā or Bhagavān / as Krishna enters the wrestling arena he is seen in 10 different ways according to various rasas / how varieties of philosophers see Krishna through the lens of their philosophy / Shiva asks to see Vishnu's form of Mohini / Vishnu completely bewilders Shiva with His feminine beauty 

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This story course is used often to describe conceptions of God and how people,

1:02.5

different traditions have conflicting ideas and sometimes even become heated, right?

1:10.1

They don't know what God is. And it's saying that from

1:13.3

a, from another perspective, a broader perspective, one could see that there's truth in both

1:19.1

presentations of God. A lot of times the presentations of God are like, we understand who God is,

1:24.2

nobody else understands who he is at all. Right.

1:28.5

They're totally wrong.

1:30.3

And that's kind of compared to, you know, if one guy's grabbing a tusk, he thinks he

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