ANUBHAVA Vs. ANUBHUTI🔗

Experience Vs. Wisdom

There are two things we have to understand: one is experience and the other is wisdom. Experience means learning from incidents that happen over a long time; as you say: an ancient and old man with a long beard! Wisdom means learning from the first experience. Understand this one example, it will clear the whole thing: a person touches the cigarette end and realizes that it burns. He then touches the burning matchstick and learns that this fire also burns. He then touches the oven and learns that that fire also burns. He goes on touching all forms of fire and learns. By the time he learns that all forms of fire burn, his body will be ready to be burnt! This is Experience.

Wisdom means, when you touch fire the first time, you learn that all forms of fire burn. Learning from your first experience is wisdom. Accumulating your experiences and processing it is experience. It is not important how much of experience you have had. It is important what messages you learnt from those experiences; what you got from those experiences.

Some people are wise and others unwise. The wise people pick up from one incident. Not only that, because of this one experience, they will be able to see through the whole thing and analyze it. So to be wise, you need not be aged, you just need to be in the present moment. The