Maharaja Chhiatrasal on Marifat
Maharaja Chhiatrasal says in one of his poems: "The Six Hindu darshans (six philosophies) when viewed in isolation from each other, it appears like an elephant for the blind."
In Tartam wani, Maarifat is the highest state of spiritual realization, particularly of Aksharateet level of reality.
Marifat means not being tied to any one person or idea, but trying to understand everyone and all ideas.
By understanding everyone and everything, we also understand more what we really believe.
The blind children could not understand the elephant well by touching one part, so their teacher gave them knowledge about the whole elephant by holding the elephant statue in their hands, then those children got complete knowledge about that part which they touched and the parts touched by others. After all, that is the complete knowledge.
Chhatrasal says: "Six darshans (six philosophies) when viewed in isolation, is like an elephant for the blind." But when all of ...