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Some take it to mean the knowledge gained through the five senses, that is, the knowledge gathered by reading books and perceiving the world. Others read it as 'knowledge that gives rise to doubt', learning accompanied by uncertainty. Still others take it as the surface knowledge that comes from study. In any reading, the deeper idea is the same: however much one has learned, if realisation of truth is missing, it will not bear full fruit.\n\nHere knowledge is divided into two levels. One is the information gathered outwardly. The other is the truth realised inwardly. The first comes from books and from other people. The second blossoms within, through experience and reflection. A man who has read every book about food may still go hungry, and in the same way a man who has gathered facts may still lack peace.\n\nThis does not belittle learning. Valluvar himself praises it in the very next chapters on education. But learning is a boat, and it is of use only when it carries us to the shore. Many of us sit in the boat reading a thousand articles and never row toward the bank.\n\nToday any amount of information can be had in a second. But the clarity to apply it in our lives has to be grown separately. 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Narada approached him and said, 'Revered one, teach me.' Sanatkumara answered, 'Tell me what you already know, and I will teach you what lies beyond.'\n\nNarada recited his learning: the Rig, Yajur, Sama and Atharva Vedas, the epics and the Puranas, grammar, mathematics, the knowledge of the gods, the arts, the science of conduct, the art of war, astronomy and many other disciplines. It was a long list. There was no doubt that he was a great scholar.\n\nBut the words with which he ended were the most important: 'Revered one, I know all these only as words, as mantras. I do not know the Self. I have heard from people like you that those who know the Self cross beyond sorrow. I am in sorrow. Take me across to that shore.'\n\nSanatkumara simply called everything Narada had listed 'only a name'. Step by step he led him upward: above name is speech, above speech is mind, above mind is resolve, and so on, taking Narada up to the state of truth, the Upanishad says.\n\nThere is great humility in Narada's confession. A man who had learned so many scriptures was not afraid to say, 'I do not know the truth.' It was because of that honesty that wisdom came to him. The story fits Valluvar's verse exactly: knowledge without realisation, however exalted, does not end sorrow.\n\nThe worth of learning is not lessened. But the story shows that for learning to reach its end, inward seeking and clarity must join it. Only a mind that admits the limit of its own knowledge gains the capacity to receive the truth.","reflection_ta":"\u0b9a\u0bca\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bbe\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1 \u0b85\u0bb1\u0bbf\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b87\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0ba9\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bbe\u0bb4\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0baa\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbe\u0ba4 \u0b92\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1 \u0b8e\u0ba4\u0bc1? \u0b87\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4 \u0bb5\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b85\u0ba4\u0bc8 \u0bb5\u0bbe\u0bb4\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b8e\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0b9f\u0bbf \u0b87\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd?","reflection_en":"What do you know very well in words but have not yet lived, and what would living it look like this week?","image_prompt":"A serene riverbank hermitage from the Chandogya Upanishad: the learned Narada with a veena and palm-leaf manuscripts at his feet bowing humbly before the radiant sage Sanatkumara seated under a tree, warm palm-leaf manuscript and Tanjore-painting inspired style, ivory, ochre, copper and deep teal palette, ornate gold border, no text or letters in the image."},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/verse"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/556\/revisions\/1682"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adhigaram\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kural_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kural_section?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"literary_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_category?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"author_poet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author_poet?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"thinai_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thinai_type?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"work_title","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work_title?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}