That's the wrong relationship that the world is choosing to have with an unwise man. If you are to respect, you have to respect someone who is wise and who can bring his wisdom to your use. Instead, if you choose to have a relationship of respect with someone who is himself unwise, obviously, he can be of no use to you. So again, it's a failure of relationship—something is misplaced. Respect is something that has to be placed at the right point.
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Questioner: Pranam Acharya Ji.
Acharya Prashant: Ji.
Questioner: Sir, wise and unwise men are both related to the world. On the periphery, both wise and unwise persons' attitudes towards the external circumstances appear to be the same. Wise men will also moan, unwise men will also moan, and so on and so forth. These all look quite similar in nature, but a wise man is mourning because he is going away from the path of liberation, and otherwise for the unwise men.
So, sir, in today's world, what I see is that an unwise person seems to be making a lot of these arguments which otherwise suit a wise person—similar to what Arjuna has been doing. On the contrary, these people are revered more as opposed to a wise person in the world today. It appears to me as quite unfortunate because that's not the way we look at it from today's verse. So, I just wanted to have your view on this, sir.
