The difference between the two is very subtle. However, if put into simpler words it is not that difficult to understand either. One can gain knowledge and knows what is right and wrong. What is healthy and what is unhealthy, how to perform a task, how to drive, how to cook. All these things can be learned and specialised in. But the ability to decide what is right and what is wrong, the capacity to choose the right and skip the wrong, comes from wisdom. In another way, the ability to use the learned but wisdom can only be attained. An example would be the best way to understand the concept deeply. So, for instance, all kinds of thoughts, whether positive or negative, whether healthy or toxic, whether happy or sad come to our mind. We feel them and know that these feelings are a very natural part of human beings. This is knowledge. But understanding, observing and staying aware and detached of these thoughts require wisdom.                                   

 By, Sonakshi Das.

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