Are We Wise Or Foolish?

They say that a fool learns from his own experience, a wise man learns from the fool’s experience. So the question is whether we fall in the category of fools or the wise people.

- Dr. Jayadeva Yogendra

Experience has to be a repeated affair. One single perception doesn’t help. Again and again the same bad experience does not lead us further. That is why the statement: Vigilance is the price of freedom. We have to maintain that kind of awareness all the time. We cannot have vigilance part time. Just like the police, they are vigilant all the time. There was an old cartoon about a very brilliant policeman, and naturally there was a counter gangster also who was brilliant. The gangster had taken the external appearance of a policeman. So there were now two policemen in the town and they were experts. It became a job to find out who the gangster is and who the policeman is. So, that is the problem. To be vigilant is a full time job.