'The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from us' has been said by various learned men. The process of learning starts in a person right from his birth. He learns from his mother , father and siblings . Then he learns from his teacher at School , at college and at various other stages . He also learns by reading a book , by listening to discourses of saints , seers and philosophers . This learning process never stops till his death. He also learns from his own experiences whether good or bad . These experiences sometime form his convictions . If he has good experience of Love or friendship . His convictions about love or friendship are adorable but when he has bad experience of the same, his views are formed otherwise or contradictory.
The paradox of learning is also concealed in the first line of this write up that nobody can take away it from us . We live throughout our lives with our biased convictions , ideals and experiences which may not be relevant now . We try to impose same upon our children and juniors which we think are time tested and foolproof. While doing so we forget that times have changed , the values have changed, outlook of people has changed , priorities have changed . We ignore the fact that our outdated convictions and ideals may not have relevance in the modern times now.
We may live in fools paradise throughout our lives ignoring the very less impact of our thought process on our younger generation or live up-to-date with the present priorities and values. We may have to unlearn some ideas for the sake of new ones or choose to stop advising new generation with the obsolete ideas which may not be relevant now to them.
Most of us have grown up in dearth and scarcity which has made us shortsighted and pessimistic . But with the surge in economy our children have grown up in gaiety and abundance which has changed their outlook towards life. We can not guide them with our myopic and pessimistic outlook. Let us watch their growth like a silent spectator with their own optimistic outlook . In order to be relevant in this modern world we have to unlearn or erase some memories on the hard disc of our memory lane and adopt new ones.
We have to approach a problem with Virgin mind i.e we have to unlearn the knowledge or face it with full knowledge for which human mind has not capacity . Therefore , liberation from knowledge can be better way of approach .
Swami vivekananda a great monk of India has once said that we should not believe a thing which we have read from a book . We should not believe a thing if some body has said it so . We should find out the truth ourselves and that is realisation.
J. Krishnamurti , a known philosopher from India has said in his book' Freedom from known' that you should be free from whatever has been known to you in this world through the assistance of religion, society ,ideologies and be constantly aware of yourself , of your own thoughts and actions , observing things as they appear to you , not seeing them from a prejudiced mind .
According Kashmiri Shaivism also while realising self or achieving ultimate , a devotee faces various limitation or Kanchukas which he has to overcome . One of the Kanchuka is' Vidya ' or the covering of limited knowledge . Shiva himself is all knowing , but we human beings have not the capacity to know everything at the same time . We can perceive reality only in bits and parts according to what we are fed by our senses .
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