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       2023-05-25T14:54:29.449280Z
       
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       >An amazing example of a majority in agreement dismissing the minority as false is set forth by the master Candrakirti. Aryadeva’s Four Hundred says: “Therefore, why is it incorrect to say that the whole world is insane?” The commentary on that [by Candrakirti] says: “Once, in a country, there was an astrologer who went before the king and said, ‘Seven days from now a rain will fall. All those whose mouths the water enters will go insane.’ When the king heard that he carefully covered the mouth of his well of drinking water and none of the rain fell into it. His subjects were unable to do the same and so the water went into all of their mouths and they all went insane. The king was the only one whose mind remained normal. In that country the way of thinking and the way of speaking of all the people did not agree with the way of thinking and the way of speaking of the king. Therefore, they all said, ‘The king is insane.’ In the end, not knowing what else to do, the king drank the water, whereby he came to agree with everyone else.”