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Reporter: Do you think this knowledge should be a part of everyone’s education?

Kotovsky: That is quite understandable hygienic knowledge.

On the other hand, one who has received the transcendental knowledge by aural reception from the bona chain, and who has sincere regard for the real ācārya, must needs be enlightened with the revealed knowledge But this knowledge is permanently sealed to the cognitive approach of the empiricists.

Speculative knowledge of God will lead us nowhere. This is the way of perfect knowledge. The knowledge derived from such a process, however, will always remain imperfect. In this way our knowledge is perfect. Transcendental knowledge is similar. In this way we receive knowledge from Kṛṣṇa, the best authority.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: For perfect knowledge we have to approach a superior person, a guru. Of course, if we encounter a false guru, our knowledge is false. But if our guru is perfect, our knowledge is perfect. We accept Kṛṣṇa as our guru. If He is perfect in knowledge, our knowledge is also perfect. the perfect, our knowledge is perfect.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: But where is the education about God? To trust is very good, but simple trust will not endure unless it is backed up with scientific knowledge One may know that he has a father, but unless he knows who his father is, his knowledge is imperfect. And that education in the science of God is lacking.

Singh: We have to take knowledge from the supreme knower.

The missing point of modern civilization is that there is no educational system to instruct people on Thus we have the most defective education, because without this knowledge of what happens after death The animal does not know that he is going to have another body; he has no such knowledge.

Singh: So there is an ascending process of gaining knowledge and a descending process?

Real science means full knowledge of everything, material and spiritual.

This jñāna-yajñena … yajanto mām is the perfection of knowledge, as stated in the Bhagavad-gītā [7.19

Therefore he cannot have perfect knowledge. What is the value of our eyes? How, then, is it possible to get perfect knowledge? Because the living entity is limited, his knowledge is limited. The senses through which a scientist acquires knowledge are limited and imperfect; therefore his knowledge

To receive the transcendental knowledge we must completely surrender ourselves to the real ācārya in under the guidance of the ācārya is the only vehicle by which we can assimilate the transcendental knowledge the Ācāryadeva will enable us to be favored with the capacity for assimilating the transcendental knowledge

Śrīla Prabhupāda: That means that they do not have perfect knowledge.

A person is attractive not only because of his beauty, but also because of his knowledge. A scientist or philosopher may be attractive because of his knowledge, but what knowledge is more sublime There is no comparison in the world to such knowledge.

The culture of vidyā, or transcendental knowledge, is essential for the human being, otherwise the culture Materialistic existence means the pursuit or culture of sense gratification, and this kind of knowledge Those who are absorbed in such knowledge cannot learn any lesson from the laws of nature, and they do Vidyā, or factual knowledge, on the other hand, means to know thoroughly the process of nescient activities

However, if we simply take knowledge from the authorities, the process becomes very simple. Our process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is to take knowledge from Kṛṣṇa, the most perfect being, and not from Knowledge taken from a conditioned being is sure to be defective.

The difference is knowledge. In the Brahma-sūtra the question is raised: Who is God?

So in this way real knowledge, vidyā, means to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa; that is jñāna-yajñena, the worship of knowledge.

“The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa,