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Prabhupāda: No, because they have no knowledge. How we can enjoy life without knowledge? They also accept that for this comfortable situation they require knowledge---the engineering knowledge , this knowledge, that knowledge. But that knowledge is not sufficient. You require another knowledge. That you are lacking. It doesn't require any education. That is natural. If I love this child, he will respond.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.1–2
Vid means to know, knowledge. So Vedic literature means to receive knowledge, authoritative knowledge. Not false knowledge. False knowledge... There is difference between false knowledge and authoritative knowledge. more or less false knowledge. Not authoritative knowledge.
Room Conversation With John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and George Harrison
Now, what are the difference of degrees of knowledge? Brahman knowledge, Paramātmā knowledge and Bhagavān knowledge. The same thing: the knowledge of sunshine, the knowledge of sun globe and the knowledge of this predominating
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: Not just for knowledge, because they do not get any knowledge. They have no knowledge. What is the knowledge? They talk all nonsense. What is the knowledge?
Bhagavad-gītā 13.3
Now, one can say that "All these people are mūḍhās, or rascals, who have passed this university education They have struggled for education, for so many things, but he does not know what is God. Therefore real knowledge is taken away. He is proud of his false knowledge. This is knowledge. This technological knowledge, that is not knowledge. Kṛṣṇa says, "This is knowledge."
The Nectar of Devotion
So knowledge from the authority is perfect. Knowledge by mental speculation is always imperfect. If you get knowledge, any knowledge, from the perfect, that knowledge is perfect. And if you get knowledge from imperfect, that knowledge is always imperfect. This is our process. One must approach the superior who is in knowledge. Then he gets the knowledge.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.3.21, Initiations
That is the way of education: so many universities and department of knowledge teaching different department of knowledge. This is common knowledge. This is common knowledge.
Bhagavad-gītā 13.1–2
If we receive knowledge from the Supreme, then it is perfect knowledge. more experienced, that knowledge is perfect. So if we receive knowledge from the ultimate supreme, īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ, then our knowledge is perfect If we receive knowledge secondary, secondhand knowledge, that is also good. Secondhand knowledge means one who has received knowledge from Kṛṣṇa. That knowledge is perfect.
Interview with Mr. Koshi (Asst. Editor of The Current Weekly)
Knowledge is knowledge. It cannot be changed because there is secular, pecular and [indistinct]. Knowledge is knowledge. Just like this asmin dehe dehino 'smin. What is secular knowledge? It is knowledge for everyone. Within this body the active principle is there. And the secular knowledge says, "No, no, the active principle is outside." We have to accept it? Knowledge is knowledge. Two plus two is equal to everyone, everywhere. It is four.
Room Conversation
Yogeśvara: They just accumulate knowledge just for knowledge. They just accumulate knowledge just for knowledge sake. All these big...
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.9
A class of men should be brāhmaṇa, simply interested in knowledge. Actually, that is going on. Some class of men in the human society, they are engaged in broadcasting knowledge, scientific knowledge They are supposed to be on the brahminical qualification, because to distribute knowledge means must have good brain, must have good learning, education. Then there is question of distributing knowledge. A fool, rascal, cannot distribute.
Bhagvad-gītā 7.2 in Hindi [final proofreading pending]
So this knowledge when understood along with the science behind it is called realized knowledge. So realized knowledge of the Absolute Truth, realized knowledge of the soul, and realized knowledge of The Lord is himself imparting knowledge about the Absolute Truth. athāto brahma-jijñāsā. This human form of life is for gaining knowledge about Brahman, transcendence. There is no need to gain any other knowledge. What knowledge can you gain?