futile argument

Courtesy:Sri.KV.Anantanarayanan
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*मूर्खेषु विवादो न कर्तव्यः
चाणक्यसूत्रं॥२३०॥
mūrkheṣu vivādo na kartavyaḥ
cāṇakyasūtraṁ ||230||

the terse aphorism of chanakya, though simple is pregnant with meaning. So
let me leave long winded sentences in Sanskrit for the day and settle for
this.

Chankya simply says... "It is futile to argue with and arrogant and idiotic
person".

For the great political scientist this is the essence of his experience of
a lifetime. It is dangerous to engage in a conversation of friendly nature
with an idiot. He will talk back garbage to you an your day will be
ruined. If this conversation is by way of advice backed by reasoning and
rhetoric you are sure to get serious backlash. There will be verbal insult,
physical attack and enmity for a lifetime or even more. The age old dictum
that "silence is golden" should guide us. This action of avoiding
controversy becomes very difficult when we are at the recieving end of some
trouble.

We may then follow the path of one age old master....this action is
attributed to tenali rama, thiruvaazhithaan and some other funny geniuses
also. Once our hero was going along the street. The son of the local
village chief threw a small stone at him. The stone hit him on the back and
it was painful. But the hero could not protest. He knew that if he scolded
they boy, his arrogant father would come the boy's rescue and our poor man
cannot win. So with a lot of show affection he called the boy and
congratulated him on the accuracy of the throw and also presented with him a
dampidi....the smallest coin availble at that time. The boy was
wonder-struck and asked if he could get money for pelting stone at others.
Our man replied that the stone was small and he himself was very poor.
This was the reason for the frugal present. He advised the boy to select a
huge man with strong body and ensure that he used a bigger stone which would
hit at least the back of his head. The naughty boy followed the advice to
the last word and the results are unnecessary to describle.

Indeed it is a difficult proposition not to argue with idiots when the
surface of earth is proliferated with such great men.. Many will have to go
for eternal vow of silence.

knr

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