Passage 9

In English

, however, being young and inexperienced, mistook this and interpreted it to himself wrongly. He got the feeling that perhaps his father was not quite learned and had no competence to teach him and hence he was being sent to another for studies. For some years stayed in the ’s house and completed all his education and came back to his father’s house with some conceit of high learning. Noticing this, the father asked the son, “What is it that you have learnt? What are the various systems that you have learnt? Have you learnt about ? Have you learnt that particular branch of education which, if one has learnt, one need not have to learn anything else and will be knowing all?” Such were the questions put by the father. While the father was asking these questions, the son was behaving in a rather queer way. He was still displaying superior airs and conceit as if he was far more educated and learned than his father and that the latter would not understand at all if he started telling what all he had learnt over those few years. The father could easily understand the false vanity and the immature state of his son. The son was trying to show off, replying to his father that God is like this, God is like that, and so on.