Theos-Talk Archives (October 2008 Message tt00600)

Dear friends

But C. W. Leadbeater is not the gospel truth...
I say this even when we know, that he created a huge sex-scandal and merely three years later confessed to the idea of being given the task of finding to the public - THE - Maitreya and World Teacher of the Age - the New Torch Bearer etc. etc.



 Try this one...



ELEPHANT AND THE BLIND MEN

Once upon a time, there lived six blind men in a village. One day the villagers told them, "Hey, there is an elephant in the village today."

They had no idea what an elephant is. They decided, "Even though we would not be able to see it, let us go and feel it anyway." All of them went where the elephant was. Everyone of them touched the elephant.

"Hey, the elephant is a pillar," said the first man who touched his leg.

"Oh, no! it is like a rope," said the second man who touched the tail.

"Oh, no! it is like a thick branch of a tree," said the third man who touched the trunk of the elephant.

"It is like a big hand fan" said the fourth man who touched the ear of the elephant.

"It is like a huge wall," said the fifth man who touched the belly of the elephant.

"It is like a solid pipe," Said the sixth man who touched the tusk of the elephant.

They began to argue about the elephant and everyone of them insisted that he was right. It looked like they were getting agitated. A wise man was passing by and he saw this. He stopped and asked them, "What is the matter?" They said, "We cannot agree to what the elephant is like." Each one of them told what he thought the elephant was like. The wise man calmly explained to them, "All of you are right. The reason every one of you is telling it differently because each one of you touched the different part of the elephant. So, actually the elephant has all those features what you all said."

"Oh!" everyone said. There was no more fight. They felt happy that they were all right.

The moral of the story is that there may be some truth to what someone says. Sometimes we can see that truth and sometimes not because they may have different perspective which we may not agree too. So, rather than arguing like the blind men, we should say, "Maybe you have your reasons." This way we don't get in arguments. In Jainism, it is explained that truth can be stated in seven different ways. So, you can see how broad our religion is. It teaches us to be tolerant towards others for their viewpoints. This allows us to live in harmony with the people of different thinking. This is known as the Syadvada, Anekantvad, or the theory of Manifold Predictions.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Anand 
  To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 8:31 AM
  Subject: Theos-World Re: C.W. Leadbeater Witnesses the Receiving of a Mahatma Letter



  >" She (Blavatsky) continued these Casandra-like prophecies with a
  maddening 
  > monotony, but her audience was far too reverential to try to change 
  > the subject. We sat in the four corners of the compartment, Madame 
  > Blavatsky facing the engine, Mr. Oakley sitting opposite to her with 
  > the resigned expression of an early Christian martyr; while Mrs. 
  > Oakley, weeping profusely, and with a face of ever-increasing horror, 
  > sat opposite to me."
  > 



   

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