"On one occasion there were six wise old men who did not enjoy the gift of sight, being blind and using the sense of touch to experience and know the different realities, beings and objects of the world.
None of these sages had ever seen an elephant, and after learning that their king had one, they humbly asked him to meet him. The monarch decided to grant their request and brought them before the pachyderm, allowing the elders to approach and touch it.
The sages approached the animal and, one by one, touched the elephant in order to know what said being was like.
The first touched a tusk, and considered that the elephant was smooth and sharp as a spear. The second sage approached and touched the elephant's tail, replying that it was actually more like a rope.
The third would come into contact with the trunk, indicating that the animal was more like a snake. The fourth would indicate that the others must be wrong, since after touching the elephant's knee he concluded that it was something similar to a tree. The fifth denied it by touching the being's ear, assessing that it resembled a fan. Finally the sixth sage came to the conclusion that in reality the elephant was like a strong rough wall, having touched its back.
Having reached different conclusions, the sages began to argue about who possessed the truth. Since everyone was defending their positions hard, they enlisted the help of a seventh sage who could see. This made them see that in reality all of them were partially right, since they had been describing a single part of the whole animal, at the same time that even without being wrong, none of them had been able to know it in its entirety".