Volume 7 · The Long Afternoon · Essay 28
Blind Men Parable
A parable is a seed wrapped in a tale. Blind Men Parable plants well in Indian soil.
Do not ask whether the story happened. Ask whether it happens. That is the only test a parable needs to pass.
Consider the railway porter who has carried ten thousand suitcases. He knows what nobody packs: a plan for what happens after arrival.
In the end, life asks only whether we were awake while it happened. Keep the name. Use the pause it gives you. That is the entire homework.