00:00Usually, if you're asked to depict wisdom, what would it look like?
00:03Already 84 years when born, with a long white flowing beard, about to die anytime.
00:08Old man with nothing else to do, so he is acting wise.
00:10Wisdom is more like a young nachiketa, or a young ashtavakkar, or a young abhimanyan, or a young jaun of
00:16art.
00:16Wisdom is not so much about knowing. Knowing is damn easy.
00:19Knowing oneself is fundamentally not very different from knowing the contents of this tumbler.
00:24Not very different. In fact, probably easier.
00:26Because to know this, I'll have to do something.
00:28Knowing oneself, I am the nearest one to myself, no?
00:32One knows oneself instantaneously, effortlessly.
00:36So that knowing part is not the big deal. What is difficult is the acknowledgement.
00:40Facing what you see, and hence abhimanyan, that's wisdom.
00:43The courage to face it, in spite of knowing that if you face it, you will be probably dead, gone.
00:47Wisdom isn't old. It's about being a man.
00:50Now, does wisdom look like a seasoned, tranquil, peaceful old man?
00:53Or does wisdom look like a young and fierce warrior?
00:58So…
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