RIGHT UNDER THE RIGHT FOOT
If I am in a boat, and the boat is in the middle of the river, and if I do not know swimming - then, I better not ask that poor boatman, “Do you know the Vedas?” Because, when the storm comes, and when the boat goes down, he is surely going to ask me, “Sir, do you know swimming?” It is pointless to argue with some… particularly the ‘I-know-alls’. The best way to win arguments with these kind is to leave them alone… Never to get entangled with them. For, it is not in their blood to give up… to concede. So, let them die in their own trap. You don’t have to lay one for them. Yes, when the boat journey had started, that noon, the arrogant scholar had asked the poor boatman, “So, do you know the Vedas?” “Sir, I am a poor village soul,” the boatman had confessed, sincerely, “I have never seen the doors of a school." “Ayyo Rama, what a waste of life,” the Brahmin had declared, “That means you do not know even Sanskrit?” ...