The Three Types of Learning🔗

You go through some experiences. By the time you are ready to live with all your experiences, life is over! It is like first you touch the cigarette fire and fear that cigarette fire can burn. Then you experience the matchbox fire and that fire burns. Then you experience the oven fire, 'Oh, oven fire will burn.' By the time they touch every kind of fire and experience that all kinds of fire burn, the body is ready to be burnt! This is what I call learning through experience.

There is another kind of learning. The first time when you touch any one kind of fire and get burnt, you realize that all kinds of fire will burn - this is what I call living enlightenment, jeevan mukti. It is realizing the truths and learning the lessons from one or two experiences.

There is a third kind of people, they don't even need to touch the fire. Just by seeing somebody else touching the fire and getting burnt, they will be awakened, 'O God! All kinds of fire burn for all human beings.' Such a person is called a Paramahamsa - awakened just by seeing the other person.