Gautam Buddha Stories — Be Truthful, Achieve Harmony | 2020

“The Time When Buddha Told About The Blind Men — Gautam Buddha Stories”

Once upon a time…

A number of disciples went to Buddha and said:

“Sir, there are living here in Savatthi many wandering Hermits and scholars who indulge in constant dispute, some saying that the world is infinite and eternal and others that it is limited and not eternal, some saying that the soul dies with the body and others that it lives on forever, and so forth.”

“What, Sir, would you say concerning them?”

And the Buddha answered:

“Once upon a time…

There was a certain Raja who called to his servant and said:

‘Come, good fellow, go and gather together in one place all the men of Savatthi who were born blind… and show them an elephant.”

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‘Very good, sire,’ replied the servant, and he did as he was told.

He said to the blind men assembled there,

‘Here is an elephant,’ and to one man he presented the head of the elephant, and to another its ears, and to another the tusks, and to another, the trunk, the foot, the back, the tail and tuft of the tail, saying to each one that was the elephant.

“When the blind men had felt the elephant, the raja went to each of them and said to each,

‘Well, blind man, have you seen the elephant?

Tell me, what sort of thing is an elephant?’

“There upon the men who were presented with the head answered,

‘Sire, an elephant is like a pot.’

and the man who had observed the ear replied…

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