“Everything is analogy, it has to be.” These are the words from one of my favorite authors. But I knew it long before I read his books. It reflects the way human beings think, how they learn. So I have been teaching through analogy all my life. I started teaching as a young man. Being one of a very few of my community who could communicate in English and being a priest of two renowned temples in South India, I started my teaching when travelers and seekers from outside India approached me, talked to me, and asked me about my tradition and culture. In those days, in the middle seventies and early eighties people were very different from today. The people I met back then took their journey serious and were open, broad minded and didn’t mind to think deep. Many became friends.
I teach the power of analogy through an analogy: you can’t explain ‘honey’ to a person who does not know what is ‘sweet’.
The power of analogy is to teach an unknown thing through a known thing.
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