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Morning Walk
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.
Bg. 10.4-5
Ordinary knowledge obtained by a university education pertains only to matter, and it is not accepted here as knowledge. Knowledge means knowing the distinction between spirit and matter. In modern education there is no knowledge about spirit; they are simply taking care of the material elements Therefore academic knowledge is not complete.
Rāja-vidyā: the king of knowledge 1
In the material world there are so many gradations of education. Some people never finish grammar school or high school, whereas others go on and receive a university education But what is this rāja-vidyā, the king of education, the summum bonum of knowledge? Real knowledge is understanding what I am. Unless we come to the point of understanding what we are, we cannot attain real knowledge.
Rāja-vidyā: the king of knowledge 1
The Lord replied, “Why should you not think you’re well educated?
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
Rāja-vidyā: the king of knowledge 1
“This knowledge is the king of education, the most secret of all secrets. It is the purest knowledge, and because it gives direct perception of the self by realization, it is
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.