Day 247

Lessons from Mahabharata-4 

Knowledge and wisdom are not the same… They are called Jnana and Vijnana… knowledge is mere textual knowledge whilst Wisdom is based on experience and practice/observation…. Today we call it theory and practice… we need more practical wisdom in this world…. The following emphasises on that..

Apaddharma anusasana parva, Chapter 142:

•       I do not instruct you regarding duty from what I have learned from the Vedas alone; What I have told you is the result of wisdom and experience, it is the honey that the learned have gleaned.
•   Kings should collect wisdom from various sources,
• One cannot go successfully in the world with the help of a one sided morality;
  Duty must originate from understanding, the practices of the good should always be determined.
• A king by the help of his understanding and guided by knowledge gathered from various sources, should so arrange that moral laws may be observed.— Bhishma to Yudhishthira, Shanti Parva, Mahabharata 

Hence it is correctly stated that wisdom coming from  age and experience cannot be dismissed. 

• But the modern generation has scant respect for anything old… whether it is age or knowledge… hence we find… re-inventing the wheel again and again and people groping for solutions…. 
• As they have not cared to learn from the past… there is a saying… Those who forget history/past are condemned  to repeat it..

Hence the old adage … don’t reinvent the wheel..

वन्दे मातरम्

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