Sunday, July 03, 2022
Unmastered Learning
"Wisdom's Soup," from the Mahabharata, tr. Arthur William Ryder, Relatives, Being Further Verses Translated from the Sanskrit (San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1919), p. 104:
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A scholar who can merely quote
Unmastered learning got by rote,
Is erudition's luckless dupe,
A spoon to ladle wisdom's soup.
The fool who hears but cannot prize
The wisdom of the truly wise,
He too is erudition's dupe,
A spoon to ladle wisdom's soup.
But you, dear reader, if you prize
This wisdom of the truly wise,
Will soon be added to the group
Of tongues that relish wisdom's soup.
