چکیده:
The story of 'The Elephant and the Blind Men' is one of the very famous Indian stories that has been seen in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain religious and mystical works from very ancient times, and in all these cases, the intention is to express the inability of the external senses to recognize the truths of things and matters. The fame of this story among Hindus is such that it has become a proverb known as the 'Rule of the Elephant and the Blind,' used for those who have received an incomplete and unfinished perception of only a small part of the truth and believe they have attained complete knowledge of all of it. Apparently, the oldest written form of this story is seen in the Buddhist Udana collection, which narrates and describes some of the sayings attributed to Buddha and was probably compiled in the third century BC: '... There were monks and Brahmins who said: "The world is eternal. This is the truth, and whatever else is said is false." But there were other monks and Brahmins who said: "The world is not eternal. This is the truth, and nothing else, and whatever else is said is false." Some said that the world is finite, while others maintained that the world is infinite. Some believed that soul and body are one. Others were able to separate soul and body. Some said that Buddha exists after death, others said that he does not exist after death, others maintained that he both exists and does not exist, and others said that he neither exists nor does not exist. Finally, it led to argument, dispute, and insults, and they were shouting, "This is right and that is not right," "That is right and this is not right"...
خلاصه ماشینی:
how it happened and in what way Mawlana Jalal al-Din transformed the original form of the story, removing the blind people from the scene and placing the elephant in a dark house.
" Sanai, after narrating the tale, expresses its purpose and result in three verses as follows: Each has seen a part of the components For all, doubt and error have fallen No heart becomes aware of the whole Knowledge accompanies no blind person For all of them, impossible imaginations Have made them like a bag of scattered grains (7) The most famous version of this story is the one that Mawlana Jalal al-Din Balkhi has included in the third volume of the Masnavi, but he has changed its beginning, placing the elephant not among the blind, but in a dark house, and those who have come to see it, due to the darkness of the place and the absence of light, have been deprived of recognizing its reality and have fallen into error.
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