{"id":491,"date":"2015-01-11T19:14:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T00:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=491"},"modified":"2015-01-11T19:14:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T00:14:45","slug":"wisdom-dawns-only-when-we-apply-experience-to-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wisdom-dawns-only-when-we-apply-experience-to-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom dawns only when we apply experience to age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGrowing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. \u201c<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Andre Maurois<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Kabir &#8211; The couplet<\/em><br \/>\n\u092a\u0939\u0932\u0947 \u092f\u0939 \u092e\u0928 \u0915\u0917 \u0925\u093e, \u0915\u0930\u0924\u093e \u091c\u0940\u0935\u0928 \u0918\u093e\u0924 \u0964<br \/>\n\u0905\u092c \u0924\u094b \u092e\u0928 \u0939\u0902\u0938 \u092d\u092f\u093e, \u092e\u094b\u0924\u0940 \u091a\u0941\u0928 \u091a\u0941\u0928 \u0916\u093e\u0924 \u0965<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>transliterated:<\/em><br \/>\nPehle yeh man kag tha, karta jeevan ghaat|<br \/>\nAb to man hans bhaya, moti chun chun khaat||<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Translation:<\/em><br \/>\nThis mind was a crow in the beginning, pecking at life at each step |<br \/>\nNow it has matured into a swan, picking pearls carefully at each step ||<\/p>\n<p><em>My understanding:<\/em><br \/>\nAging is a process that begins at birth, and continues till death. It is as inexorable as time itself.<\/p>\n<p>But aging does not imply the presumed accompanying growing wise. That is an external effort that each one of us has to apply to the storehouse of knowledge we collect, in order to distill out understanding and extract useful value.<\/p>\n<p>Just as with churning curds to extract butter, there is a fair amount of extreme effort required \u2013 the curds do not easily give up the butter. And once the butter is extracted, the remains need to be used\/discarded appropriately.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, we need to collect knowledge, and then apply clarity, rationality and experience to the store to extract understanding and wisdom. We then need to DISCARD and sometimes DESTROY the remains, so that it does not pollute later collections.<\/p>\n<p>In the absence of this, we only grow old, not wise or smart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGrowing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. \u201c &#8211; Andre Maurois \u00a0 Kabir &#8211; The couplet \u092a\u0939\u0932\u0947 \u092f\u0939 \u092e\u0928 \u0915\u0917 \u0925\u093e, \u0915\u0930\u0924\u093e \u091c\u0940\u0935\u0928 \u0918\u093e\u0924 \u0964 \u0905\u092c \u0924\u094b \u092e\u0928 \u0939\u0902\u0938 \u092d\u092f\u093e, \u092e\u094b\u0924\u0940 \u091a\u0941\u0928 \u091a\u0941\u0928 \u0916\u093e\u0924 \u0965 \u00a0 transliterated: Pehle yeh man kag tha, karta jeevan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kabir","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}