A fool is wise man’s ladder

2075-06-02

A fool is wise man’s ladder

A wise man runs with his brain but the fool one runs with his muscle. A wise knows that illegitimate desire and uncontrolled rage are dangerous enemies in life. Hence, he tries his best to control five senses of organs, input devices of our human knowledge. As soon as a human sees an object it gives a command to his brain and knows what the object is. A wise one can control these senses of organs and control them to react. If he can control his senses of organs, he can be more than a normal human being. To be wise, everyone has to perceive knowledge. To gain knowledge, he has to use five senses of organs. It’s possible through studying, observation, experiment, imagination, and yoga. Complete diet, actions, and sleep constitute help one accomplish yoga. Supreme consciousness can be achieved by only chanting Mantra according to the Hindus Myths. A wise one who can concentrate his mind can achieve such a goal but it will be distant hills look green for the fool one.

A wise knows how he can achieve power and pelf. He uses the fools as his tools to gain the power. When a wise one gets the opportunity to rule the nation, he can maintain rules and regulations for the well being of his people. His action should be free from bias. The authority of nation does not belong only to a single political group though he is elected by the votes of the members of his party and other. Before the election, he can be a member or the leader of a particular political party but when he is in the government he has to think that he is for all but not only for a group. If he thinks so why the general public should pay the tax to the government run by him and his handful of foolish. This is the place where a wise one should raise voice and challenge to the concerned authority.

A wise and good one is respected all over the world. Can a normal human being change him a wise one? Is it possible? If yes, how? No one is born wise and foolish. When he grows up he develops him as a wise and a foolish one. If he practices, to tell the truth, and follow virtues like humility, respecting elders and loving younger, he can be a wise one but if he avoids the rules and regulations of the nation, speak against the social harmony and creates conflict and involves in bloodshed, he is indeed a foolish one.

There is the reference of a Brahmin who spent the half of his life as a fool one but later developed himself as a great poet. There is the reference of Devadatta Brahamin in Devi Bhagata that he got a son named Utathya remained foolish till his middle-aged but later became a great poet due to his truthiness. When Devedatta couldn’t bear his son Utathya’s stupidity, he took him to the forest and left him there. He made a hut nearby the river and used to survive with the wild fruits that he used to get. At the moment he promised not to speak a lie and changed himself as a truth speaker and became Satyavrata. He controlled his senses of organs and feelings. When he a hunter came to look for his wounded boar and asked him about the boar, he made a sound ‘Ei’ then the goddess Bhagawati was pleased and blessed him with knowledge. He was as popular and great as Valmiki, a great and wise sage.

Utathaya foolish Brahamin changed himself as Satayvrata and later a wise and a great poet. It was only possible through his dedication to telling the truth forever. Thus, it’s true today’s fool can be the wise for next day and the wise of today might be the fool one as the king Prikshit put a garland of a dead snake around the Shameek sage. Here the wisest king also lost his tempered and changed himself the foulest one. It is the human activity that can make him a wise and a fool one. His son cursed the king that he would die with Takshak snake bite within a week. When his son arrived and asked his son if he knew the king. He told that he didn’t. If so “Why did you curse him without knowing? it was a great misdeed you did.” he said. These two references show that a wise one should not lose his temper and maintain his solace till the end of life as Shameek sage did.

Chandra Kanta Pandit

Pashupati Mitra Secondary School

Chabahil, Kathmandu.