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Stories told by Śrīla Prabhupāda
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| This is another story often told by Srila Prabhupada “Scissor philosophy”. This is to illustrate stubbornness. When someone is so stubborn, he won’t give up his point of view. So two men were having an argument, they wanted to cut something and they argued about which is the best tool to use to cut. One was saying: “Knife, for this thing knife is better.” And the other was saying: “No, scissors.” So back and forth, one was saying: “Knife!” the other one: “Scissors.” “Knife, scissors,” and it became a very hot argument. Then finally the one who was advocating knife, he said: “If you don’t agree, I’ll throw you in the river”. And the other one said: “I’ll never change my mind”. So then that man who is bigger, the knife man, he picked up the scissors man and threw him in the river. And the man, he couldn’t swim so he was starting to drown and the knife man said: “Look, if you agree with knife, then I will save you.” So the man was going down for the third time and he put his hand out of the water and went like this (showing scissors with his fingers).
| | The moral is – stubborn people like scientists or impersonalists will never accept defeat even though completely smashed, they still maintain that they’re right.
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