POVERTY AND PANDITYAM

Poverty and PANdityam do not go hand in hand in most of the cases. There is a SubhAshitam which confirms this.

ParIkshya satkulam vidyA  SIlam Sauryam surUpatAm !
vidhirdadAti nipuNah kanyAmiva daridratAm !!

After testing thoroughly one's good lineage, education, conduct, strength and beauty, destiny gifts a scholar poverty as bride.

Thus we can see the life of great scholars from good family background troubled by poverty all the time.

Let there be LakshmI katAksham all around.

ANCIENT QUOTES ON “VIDYA”

(1) Through knowledge one attains immortality
    VidyayAmrutamaSnute !
    ---- ISAvAsyopanishad 11

(2)  Whatever is done with knowledge, faith and meditation        becomes more effective.
     Yadeva vidyayA karoti SraddhayopanishadA tadeva        vIryavattaram bhavati !
         ---- ChAndogyopanishad i-1-10
(3) Knowledge is ambrosia.
    Amrutam tu VidyA
    ---  SvetASvataropanishad v-1
(4) Education bestows humility
    VidyA dadAti vinayam
    --- SubhAshitam
(5) That which liberates is knowledge
    sA vidyA  yA vimuktaye
    ---  VishNu PurANam  i-19-41