Kagga 48
D. V. Gundappa · 1887–1975 · from the Kannada original
Transliteration
ondihudupAyavOrorvanaregaNNugaLuvondondu satyanshakiraNagaLa piDiduondugUDidoDavargaLarivanellavanAgamundu sAguvevinitu – MANKUTIMMA
Interpretation
With our limited senses, each of us experience Life differently & continue to gain knowledge, partial as it may be
The same experiences may result in different perceptions and thereby different realisations in different people
We can either recognise that these are all incomplete visions & there is an element of Truth in each of them or we can fight among each other arguing that ours is the only Truth
Mankutimma, it is better that we recognise our limitations & unite all the different realisations…thereby generating a possibility that one day, we may all get to know the true Truth
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