Spirituality Information - The Blind Man And The Elephant By Vishwriter At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

"I want to clarify one important thing to you today" said my spiritual master...

"Dont confuse information with knowledge . What you see and hear everyday in the television,newspapers,or in chatting with your friends, colleagues and family members is information, opinions and perhaps even facts. But knowledge is something totally different. It is complete in itself. He went on to say ....

"Ordinary minds feed on Information. Extraordinary ones have thirst for Knowledge. Knowledge helps you gain mastery over life and allows you to completely dominate your own thinking process . Knowledge allows the greater force within you to manifest itself while Information forces the lower self within you to make merry. Knowledge triggers Big Time Ideas in You and faciliates immediate action while Information makes you sit at the fence and talk about the proceedings happening in the middle. I say to you this moment ,right now to step into the middle and watch the magic of life unfold for you. "

He then read to me one of the greatest poems....

John Godfrey Saxe's version of The Blind Men and The Elephant

It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind.

The First approached the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began to bawl: "God bless me! but the Elephant Is very like a wall!"

The Second, feeling of the tusk Cried, "Ho! what have we here, So very round and smooth and sharp? To me `tis mighty clear This wonder of an Elephant Is very like a spear!"

The Third approached the animal, And happening to take The squirming trunk within his hands, Thus boldly up he spake: "I see," quoth he, "the Elephant Is very like a snake!"

The Fourth reached out an eager hand, And felt about the knee: "What most this wondrous beast is like Is mighty plain," quoth he; "'Tis clear enough the Elephant Is very like a tree!"

The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear, Said: "E'en the blindest man Can tell what this resembles most; Deny the fact who can, This marvel of an Elephant Is very like a fan!"

The Sixth no sooner had begun About the beast to grope, Than, seizing on the swinging tail That fell within his scope. "I see," quoth he, "the Elephant Is very like a rope!"

And so these men of Indostan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong!

Moral: So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen!

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