Knowledge or Experience - Who Will Screw You Faster? Yavakrita's Story From Mahabharata

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Knowledge or experience? Experience or Power? Power or Knowledge? This is an unending loop. Yavakrita's story from Mahabharat will make you get your answer & make you think about the wrongs of today's fast pace, easily accessible, and cheaply available resources for getting educated, getting work done & so on. We have heard old people say that, anything acquired without effort, does not tend to stay long along with you. This story is just the same variant of this thought. Check out this video & leave your comments & thoughts for us to discuss.

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- one of my favorite Side Stories from the Mahabharata is yak's story this was a kid who wanted to gain all the knowledge of the vdas without having to actually learn anything without having to put in an effort and of course as you might expect that failed we just did an episode on how learning should be hard there we talked about science and research and so on and give Gan I actually don't know about this kidak not that I know all of Mahabharat but uh I haven't heard of this kid at all who was this guy this is a Side Story okay it starts with two Ries badw and Ria they grew up together they were

0m 41s friends but then afterwards they took two different career paths okay Rya decided to go after knowledge he read The Vedas became very knowledgeable and badw decided to go for self-discipline abstinence from pleasure and so on okay okay so one became a Rishi one became a monk basically yes and both are valid to take but what happened as a result is that Rya and his two sons they started getting all kinds of Consulting gigs and panel discussions and invitations to by Kings and so on right hold on we're talking about the Mahabharat yeah yeah so I mean you know I'm just using modern terminology but this used to happen in those days Consulting of course Rishi is

1m 29s who who gained certain kinds of knowledge were sought after Kings would call them to their Kingdom and ask for help with how to solve certain tricky problems right all kinds of problems have been solved by rishes yeah I mean yeah that that does count as a Consulting gig and but panel discussions often Kings would invite uh pick a topic and then invite experts from all over India and have a discussion on that topic what do you call that panal discussion the more things change the more they St the clearly so what happened as a result is that Ria and his sons became famous and they would get a lot of gifts showered on them and all

2m 08s that whereas badw and he had a son called Yak they got nothing of this sort because their thing was we will sit in the forest and we will desire nothing unfortunately that was bad's thing Yak did desire things okay ah he wanted to be like R and his sons or even better keeping up with the Joneses or rather keeping up with the rabas yak was jealous of Rabia and his sons okay he wanted a piece of the action so he wanted to get all the knowledge of the vdas but he didn't want to study for it he was in the wrong place he should have been in The Matrix and he should have been Neo then he would have gotten all

2m 48s everything downloaded absolutely he should have S he should have been like you know Neo and he goes oh I know rid in ancient India H right if you were a kid who didn't want to spend the entire childhood in Kota studying uh vas day and night okay I don't think Kota existed in ancient India but I get what you mean go on so what y did huh was the other possibility what perform austerities austerities yes that is tapasia what is tapasa you go to the forest and then you cause yourself pain until a God shows up so basically you know you are this is attention seeking behavior of the highest order with the intention of blackmailing a

3m 43s god into giving you what you want so we invented self harm before it was cool okay so so what happened did did the gods did did the tapasa bear fruit well I mean our gods were not idiots Okay so but you have to show up a rule it's yeah so Indra showed up and he said that learning should be hard he pointed Yak to a future IQ episode okay he said getting a fake degree like this is bad right okay fake degree and then he went away okay so so his first tapara failed yeah but after failing an entrance exam what do you do you give it again yes second attempt right so y continued

4m 30s Indra had to show up again and he again said the same thing he said I can't give you this this is not a good idea and left after the third attempt okay Indra said he's not going to listen let me try a new tactic so Indra appeared as a 100-year-old tuberculosis patient standing next to a river throwing sand in the river okay Yak saw that and he asked old man what are you doing and the old man said you know I'm trying to build a bridge across the river by throwing Sand by throwing sand and Yak said that's not how you do it it's never going to work so Indra turned around and using modern techniques like what about said

5m 18s that's what you are doing that's what you are trying to do with learning the vas right now at this point Yak also realized something he said I have to change tactics so suddenly this is a new tactic right but yeah what Yak did was what anyone going to an Indian government office ends up doing after a few attempts right he told Indra you are great you can do anything that you want you know I leave it up to you you you decide what is best and you do what you want so Indra was so thrilled at having won this contest that he gave Yak what he wanted the knowledge of The Vedas okay if you

6m 06s think I'm making this up go read the translation by biik De it puts this out in great detail okay so Yak now has knowledge of The Vedas very happy he went to his father what do you think his father's reaction was judging by the way this story has gone probably something like well nope no right father was also reasonably smart right he said you know what your new IIT degree is going to fill you with pride it will cause your destruction this what Indra did was a standard God trick okay when an unreasonable person wants something unreasonable just give it to them they will screw it up somehow okay they have done that many times in the past

6m 55s technically not just a god trick but also parenting trick employed by Calvin's mother Calvin as in Calvin and Hobs is Mother and those who read Calvin and Hobs regularly they know which strip I'm talking about so by the way this is also the first Chinese curse may you get what you wish for so think about why it is a curse right may you get what you wish in any case right his father knew that as a parent it is pointless to tell kids anything they just don't listen but anyway as a parent you have to say it yeah so he said okay fine whatever you do don't go and do something nasty to Ria okay he will crush you in Anger okay

7m 41s so here is the problem right those who don't know history are condemned to repeat it yes those who get a history download into their brain they know history but they still don't quite understand it so they don't know how to apply it in the correct places so yaka didn't listen to his father father didn't listen to the lessons of history and he became arrogant and prideful with his new knowledge now suddenly he's become a famous and Powerful male and started doing all the famous and Powerful male things that they do most of the time which is take pleasure in attacking competitors and sexually exploiting women that he came across oh so he became Harvey Weinstein

8m 27s unfortunately one of the those women was Ria's daughter-in-law that made Ria so angry and Ria was I mean you know he had gotten his power the oldfashioned way so he was way more powerful yeah he was old bunny this guy was noish so the angry Rya had Yak destroyed in a particularly dramatic way okay which involved seduction by another beautiful woman and death by rakas Okay so okay you kind of wrapped up the story there just when it was getting interesting but I understand that uh that's not the point of the story the point of the story is that things that come to you easily can never be useful in the way they're meant to be right

9m 17s also don't be too proud of your credentials yeah don't don't be proud that you are a graduate of IIT yeah I mean there are others always more accomplished more powerful uh and so on so you some amount of humility is a good thing right yes another thing to know is that there's a difference between knowledge and experience right you can get a lot of knowledge by book reading but experience comes through the School of Hard Knocks right wisdom is important and you need to have that wisdom yeah I uh I remember reading somewhere good judgment comes from experience experience comes from bad judgment yeah and yeah you need to go through some bad judgment which Yak

10m 05s didn't go through because the knowledge was downloaded to his brain all of this becomes extra important for you today because you all have chat GPT at your fingertips okay and so now you have all become Yak oh interesting but if you don't put in your own hard work yeah you're going to get into trouble yeah right chat GP makes mistakes and there are subtle mistakes so that if you haven't become some level of domain expert yourself you will not spot those mistakes and you will get into trouble like kak yeah right so just because answers are easy to come by from chat GPT does not mean that you shouldn't work hard at your homework and

10m 53s also just because answers are easy to come by because of chat GPD does not mean they're always right chat GPT hallucinates language learning models are exactly that they are language learning models they hallucinate they come up with random things do not trust them please make sure that you understand the theory behind whatever you're using practically very simply I agree that these tools have made things a lot easy for all of us but he's right in getting all of these tools downloaded directly to your brain we've become yakas and if all of us become then there will be a r here who will easily destroy us won't even need to send in a seductress to take advantage

11m 37s of us although if he does would be nice sorry bad joke but uh yeah very interesting I thought this was going to be just a story but uh he's managed to insert a moral into it yes always always that's naen for you I'm Shri Kant this is future IQ