The first lesson in Philosophy of life drawn from the first Sloka of Ramayana

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tapasswAdhyAya niratam tapswI vAgvidAm varaM

nAradam paripapracCha vAlmIkirmunipungavam

 

This sloka teaches the humility with which one should learn, however

great / scholarly or even if he is a Brahmajnani. Though Valmiki was

himself a Brahmajnani, he was requesting another Brahmajnani Narada

with utmost humility to clarify his questions.

 

Learning is endless even to the so called well-read person. He should

continue to learn from others view points even though he is an adapt

in that subject. By doing so one expands his horizon of knowledge.

 

One can learn from any one. one should listen to the other, who ever

he be, but analyze it with a cool mind and decide for himself the

truth /helpfulness or the untruth /cheating in what the other man

said.

 

Keep your Prejudices away!

 

This is what is stated in a stanza in Sumati Satakam by Baddena :

 

vinadagu nevvaru cheppina

vininantane vEgapaDaka vivarimpadagun

gani kalla nijamu telisina

manujuDe pO nItiparuDu mahilO sumatI.

 

It is to be listened to who so ever may say but it should be analysed

without hurrying soon after hearing any thing.

One who analyses without haste, and finds the truth/untruth in what

who so ever had said, is a disciplined man.

 

This is the right way to learn from others.