MAnvi would sometimes think about the conversations between her and her thAthA. Her gratitude to her thAthA for all that she learnt from these discussions, was boundless.

thAthA: MAnvi, this learning isn’t one sided.

MAnvi: What do you mean, thAthA? You are an extremely knowledgeable person. When we converse or have a discussion, there is knowledge that you pass on to me. What I know is much lesser compared to you and what I learn is so so much more.

thAthA: MAnvi, when we discuss on a topic or when you ask a question, it sets me thinking and makes me look at things differently. Sometimes your questions make me read up on what you asked and all this is knowledge.Is there a less and more to knowledge?

MAnvi, can you put a number to knowledge? There is what one knows and what one doesn’t. And what one doesn’t know also is knowledge, isn’t it? There is much that I know and there is much I don’t. That applies to each one of us.

MAnvi: thAthA, when I talk to you, you have answers to many of my questions. This makes me think, and this is across topics. It is but natural for me to think that you know all that is needed to be known.

thAthA: Does that make you feel any less knowledgeable, MAnvi?

MAnvi: Hmnnn, I would not say a complete YES to this. There are times when I feel that I know quite a lot on a subject and I also know that I don’t know much. In those times, I do feel that I am knowledgeable, thAthA. There is no comparison I make in my mind, to anyone else.

thAhA: MAnvi, each one of us, with no exceptions to the rule, and I am deliberately and consciously saying this, know more about some topics, some about some topics, little about some and barely minimum about some. This knowledge could be from what we read, hear and experience.

When we share what we know, we know that we know and others know that we know.

We also know what we know and so do the others.

The fact that we and others know that we know and what we know, and if that is perceived as relevant knowledge to the topic, we are considered knowledgeable. That is only on a topic and not everything under the sun.

MAnvi, I know you have knowledge on a few topics because I have heard you sharing on it and being appreciated for it. Your passon also clearly indicates that you are aware that you know. When you receive an opportunity to share, then there is a wider circle of people who know that you know. I may not know as much as you do on those topics, but does that make me any less knowledgeable?

What you are knowledgeable on and I am not, make me no less knowledgeable..

What I am knowledgeable on and you are not, makes you no less knowledgeable..

– Life is a continuum of experiences and each one of these experiences gives us learning.

– Each one of us learn differently from these experiences.

– My years of experience can make me appear more knowldegeable. That’s your perception and perhaps mine too.

However, when we are having a discussion or conversation with one another, I am tapping into your storage of knowledge and you into mine. This store of knowledge is what we have gained from many others thru’ the various experiences.

Makes me wonder MAnvi – can I then say ‘your storage’ and my storage’?

We are tapping into what the universe holds isn’t it? What makes that of us – less? or more?

When thAtha started the conversation, MAnvi was certain of who was more knowledgeable than whom. However, at the end, while she was unwavering in her thought that he thAthA was knowledgeable, she was left wondering if she was any less..

The power of her thAthA’s words and thoughts!!