tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10568846.post3904425786859646627..comments2023-11-02T11:26:58.979-04:00Comments on Accessible Horizon: For the Pseudo-Intellectuals & the WannabeesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10568846.post-65240244905716705692007-01-16T10:10:00.000-05:002007-01-16T10:10:00.000-05:00there is so much to address in this post and i wil...there is so much to address in this post and i will get back to yu!eeeeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10568846.post-5139948989992547062007-01-16T10:08:00.000-05:002007-01-16T10:08:00.000-05:00Of course I do strongly agree that being Jack-of-a...Of course I do strongly agree that being Jack-of-all-trades is the best way to be!<br />There is no doubt about it in this universe with endless possibilities. You cannot alienate yourself from the rest of the knowledge in this world by just specializing in one. That is what has happened to the world and the people right now. In the process of specializing and learning just about everything (or so they think) in one field, the whole perspective is lost and the humans fail to touch topics which are of actual importance in this universe and in that process lose the knowledge that could be offered.<br />This is also like ignorance in some way. There is a small story in Indian mythology which goes on like this.<br />A few men are crossing a river in a boat. As the boatman rows the boat, he asks the people what they do for a living. There is one particular man who says he is a big scholar and he has studied the Vedas, Upanishads, poetry etc etc The others in the boat have not studied so much and so they look up to this learned guy and he too feels proud about it. After a while there is a turbulence in the river and the boatman asks everyone if they can manage to swim across because the boat may sink any moment.<br />For that the learned man says he does not know to swim and that someone had to help him.<br />The rest of the people laugh at him and say what is the use of all that knowledge if he did not swim across and save his life!<br />The point here is to learn as much as we can about literally anything in this Universe and for that, one lifetime is not enough.<br />There is also a famous line by Thiruvalluvar a famous Philosopher and poet from Tamilnadu.<br />it says "Kalavum Katru Mara", it means, "learn even to steal and then forget it".<br />This does not mean we have to learn to do a lot of bad things but it simply means that never discard the knowledge that is offered by something in this world. There is a lesson and an experience in every single thing in this Universe and it is up to us to make use of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com