WISDOM IS A BOON
In a certain village, there lived four youngsters in close friendship. Three of them were mastered in all branches of Science, but they lacked common sense. The other one though he was among them, has not highly educated but had just good common sense. Once upon a time, those four friends discussed among themselves thus: “What use of knowledge, if one does not travel a foreign country and earn gifts by praising or pleasing the kings? So let us travel abroad.” Doing so, travelling some distance, the eldest (among them) said oh! One of we four is not educated, but just has common-sense. Acceptance by the king is only for education and not for wisdom. So we shall not share our earning with him. And therefore let him go home”. Now the second one said “oh! Man of wisdom, you go home, as you are not educated”. Then the third said, “No, it is not right to do so, as we have played together since childhood. So you great men, please come along and we shall divide our earnings”.
So they let him also accompany them. Doing so, in the forest through which they travelled on their way, they happened to see the bones of a dead lion. One of them remarked “let us test our knowledge. Because, here lies a dead creature. Let us bring that to life using the knowledge we have gained. I shall assemble the skeleton. “Immediately one of them out of curiosity put the skeleton together. The second provided it with skin, flesh and blood. The third one was about to infuse breath of life using his knowledge, but was stopped by Subuddhi. “Oh! Sir please stop. The lion will kill us. If you give life, it is going to kill all of us.” Said the man of wisdom. But the third said “You fool, you are letting our learning go waste.” Then he replied -“Well then just wait for a moment while I climb this tree.” As he did so, the other infused life into the form and all the three were killed by the lion. The fourth, climbed down from the tree and went home. Therefore it is said, wisdom is better than scholarship.”
Moral of the story:
“Varam buddhir na saa vidhyaa Vidhyayaa buddhirutthamaa l
Buddhiheenaa vinasyanthi yathaa the simhakaarakaah ll”
Better to have good sense than learning as such; for good sense is superior to the mere study of letters; those wanting in common sense perish, as did the revivers of the lion.
(This story is taken from the titled AparikshitaKaarakam the 5th volume of the book PanchaThanthram which has five volumes viz., MitraBedhah, MitraLaabhah, Kaakolookeeyam, Labdhapranaasam and AparikshitaKaarakam written by Vishnu Sarma was an Indian scholar. The exact period of the composition of the Panchatantra is uncertain, and estimates vary from 1200 BCE to 300 CE.
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