The Total Solution to the Total Problem -3. Swami Krishnananda

(Spoken on September 26, 1983)
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“I gave it a little milk which was too hot so it burnt its lips a little bit, and so the child is crying.”
“Milk? What is milk? How does it look?”
“Milk is a white liquid.”
“White? What is white?”
“You don’t know what is white? White is the colour of a swan.”
He said, “Swan? What is a swan?”
She got upset, thinking, “How long will I go on explaining to this man?”
She twisted her hand like this.
“Touch this. A swan is like this.”
Then he touched her hand, which was bent like this.

“Oh, this is milk. This is why the child is crying. Such a crooked thing you are putting into the mouth of the child? Naturally, it has to cry. This is milk?”
Well, you can imagine how far the understanding of this comparison in the mind of the blind man is from the intention of the one who brought this comparison to explain what milk is.
Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ...