Dear vivekshetty ji,
First of all thank you for replying...
I feel there r 3 ways of learning.....
1.Learn from your mistakes
2.Learn from other's mistakes
3.Dont learn from anyone and from anywhere
I personally believe in point 1 and 2 but more in 2.I believe that we always have certain type of ambience by god's grace coz we suppose to learn from them thus we atleast try to avoid mistakes already made by others or in other words take advantage from others expereince..
All these scriptures and stories from ancient times has this as one of the main purpose so that we can understand our lives main purpose and shud learn from them.Its easy to live for everyday and just for ourseleves but what is easy may not be right always..
All these stories have got something more to tell and there is something more to learn from them.they always try to teach us something directly or indirectly....
The one who wants to learn can learn from everything we see, do, observe etc.. from ambience from friends, from everything possible on this earth...But yet again sometimes in the time of dielemma in life we do need a right guru or teacher to guide us thru it coz we being ourselevs in trouble cant see and understand the whole situation easily.
Hope i have answered your question completely.
Thanking you
Raman