The Pandit who could not swim

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Once several men were crossing the Ganges in a boat. One of them, a

pandit, was making a great display of his erudition, saying that he

had studied various books – the Vedas, The Vedanta, and the six

systems of philosophy. He asked a fellow passenger, " Do you know the

Vedanta? No, revered sit.The Samkhya and the Patanjala?No

revered sir." The pandit was talking in this vain way and the

passenger sitting in silence when a great storm arose and the boat

was about to sink. The passenger said to the pandit, "sir, can you

swim?No", replied the pandit. The passenger said, " I don't know

Samkhya or the Patanjala, but I can swim."

>From Ramakrishna tells stories.