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Avidyā, or ignorance, is undoubtedly dangerous, but vidyā, or knowledge, is even more dangerous when Modern civilization has advanced considerably in the field of mass education, but the result is that

In view of this, a godless civilization directed toward the so-called advancement of education is more dangerous than a civilization in which the masses of people are less “educated.”

And those who play the role of helping this sort of civilization in the name of educational advancement In the Hari-bhakti-sudhodaya (3.11.12), the advancement of education by a godless people is compared Thus the aim of real education should be self-realization, realization of the spiritual values of the Any education which does not lead to such realization must be considered avidyā, or nescience.

Worse still are those engaged in the culture of so-called knowledge.

Worse still are those engaged in the culture of so-called knowledge.

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

They fall even further into ignorance than those who have no knowledge of the Vedas at all.

em> – darkness; ye – those who; u – also; vidyāyām – in the culture of knowledge

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