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This mantra offers a comparative study of vidyā and avidyā. Avidyā, or ignorance, is undoubtedly dangerous, but vidyā, or knowledge, is even more dangerous when mistaken or misguided.

Of the different classes of men – karmīs, jñānīs and yogīs – the karmīs are those who are engaged in gratification under the flags of industrialism, economic development, altruism, political activism, and All these activities are more or less based on satisfaction of the senses, to the exclusion of the kind

And those who play the role of helping this sort of civilization in the name of educational advancement But above the senses is the mind, and above the mind is the intelligence, and above the intelligence Any education which does not lead to such realization must be considered avidyā, or nescience. And to culture such nescience means to go down to the darkest region of ignorance.

stated in Mantra One, we should know that the Personality of Godhead is the proprietor of everything and purpose of all Vedic literature is to awaken this God consciousness in the forgetful living being, and

, the first mantra has explained very clearly that the Supreme Lord is the proprietor of everything and

According to the Bhagavad-gītā (2.42, 7.15), mistaken mundane educators are known as veda-vāda-rata and

They also tend to raise some unscrupulous person from among themselves and present him as the leading Vidyāyām refers to the study of the Vedas because the Vedas are the origin of all knowledge (vidyā), and

Such men think that they themselves are God and that there is no need of worshiping any other God.