What can be meant by the panchatantra saying, knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes is it necessary to have clear ideas to see?

An example in this situation would be that a person who watches a lot of television recognizes an actress on the street but a person who doesn’t watch television will not recognize the actress but will see her nevertheless. Therefore everyone can “see” but how you perceive it is upto every individual. Therefore knowledge is the real source of sight the eyes are just the facilitator.

Also if we analyze only the use of our eyes by itself through an example if your walking on the road and someone asks you for a lift and you sweetly decline because your waiting for someone but you think of the gesture to be very sweet but when you go home and out your television on you see the same man is actually a robber. Therefore what your eyes see of a person or a situation may not always be completely true. The person’s eyes were not successful in judging the person but once it was connected to the knowledge they received by watching television. Therefore the eyes by itself may not always be completely truthful.

Although what would a disabled person or a blind man do in this situation? If we look at this in the scientific way that his or her eyes cannot decipher the light correctly therefore the image they see is incorrect and not truthful. Therefore then the knowledge that they have will also not help them because if they want to cross the road and according to their knowledge you can only cross at a zebra crossing but they do not have the eyes to see and find the zebra crossing therefore their knowledge is also incomplete without the help of their eyes.

According to me is it not necessary to have clear ideas to see your eyes are always looking at things around you and in your environment but yes what your eyes are showing you will not always be true without the help of the knowledge. As your eyes are just looking but your brain will perceive it with the past knowledge that you have. Therefore what you see makes more sense only when you have clear ideas.

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