Knowledge Ought To Make A Person Humble – Story From Upanishads

When Uddalaka, a Vedic rishi, found that his son Svetaketu had not begun the study of the Vedas even at the age of twelve, the age for upanayana or initiation into Vedic studies, he sent him to the house of a teacher. When Swetaketu returned home after having studied the Vedas for twelve years, the father was shocked to find him vain and immodest. Knowledge ought to make a person humble.

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