Who Is God?
Once six blind men came across an elephant for the
first time in their lives. After touching different parts of the elephant,
every one of them started describing enthusiastically what they thought the
elephant was like.
One man who had touched the side of the elephant
exclaimed, “It is like a wall which appears that it may fall anytime”. The
second man who had touched the tusk said, “O! It is so very round, smooth and
sharp. The elephant is like a spear”. The third man who touched the trunk said,
“Don’t you understand that the elephant is like a snake?”
The fourth man who had grasped one the legs of the
elephant felt that the elephant was like a tree. The fifth man had touched one
of the ears of the elephant and stated that it was like a fan. The sixth man
had caught hold of the swinging tail of the elephant commented “Why don’t you
all understand that the elephant is like a rope!”
In this way, they went on arguing until they resorted
to the help of a learned with proper eyesight. The learned man felt pity for
them and told them the complete description of the elephant and then all the
six blind men felt satisfied.
Friends, just like these six blind persons we are
also unable to understand the god. In Bhagavathgeetha Lord Krishna says that “He
created this world. He is in smallest thing like atoms and he is also in the
galaxies. He is the only energy responsible to run this world”.
Reference book: - Discover yourself by Radheshyam
Das
Thank you
friends,
