Living without knowing

Once again a good Joke to start with:

“A college student needed a small two-month course to fill his schedule and the only one available was wildlife Zoology. So he joined in and after one week of study, a test was held. The professor passed out a sheet of small paper where in each square was a carefully drawn picture of a bird’s legs. No bodies, no feet, just legs.

The test asked each student to identify the birds from their legs. Our student sat and stared at the test getting angrier every minute. Finally he stomped up to the front of the classroom and threw the test on the teacher’s desk. “This is the worst test I have ever written.”

The teacher looked up and said: “Young man, you have not filled in anything and you definitely have failed the test. Tell me, what’s your name?”

The student pulled up his pant to the knee showing his legs and said, “You tell me…”

There is a book named ” Everything I know I learnt in my Kindergarten”. Its a beautiful book that talks of all the irrelevant things that we impose on young minds in the name of education. Frankly, I have never been a great admirer of formal education. If one were to look back in time, one would realize that most of what we learnt during school or college have hardly been of any use to us. Our education system only prepares candidates to pigeon-hole things leading to an atrophy of the innate sense of holistic perception. The sense of wonder is lost in the process. As we age, we become opinionated and rigid. A new born child is a phenomenon in the universe.Everything is spontaneous to it. It would laugh, cry, speak in the rhythm of the cosmos. But once formal education starts, everything becomes knowledge based. Right,wrong;good,bad- takes a deep root in the psyche. The fun that was life is lost and one becomes a machine that functions based on set instructions. Truly blessed are ones who can live carefree like the lilies of the field. Knowledge is required to live in a functional world, but once it creeps into the psychological territory, it dims the light of living. As Osho would say - “If one has lived life fully, then death should be the ultimate orgasm”.

Cheers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!