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

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.

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.

Mostly technical knowledge, which is śūdra education. Real higher education means learning Vedic wisdom. This is meant for the brāhmaṇas. Alone, śūdra education leads to a chaotic condition. Everyone should be tested to find out which education he is suited for. Some śūdras may be given technical education, but most śūdras should work on the farms.

O’Grady: Modern education.

Reporter: Do you think that such education should be given in schools?

Knowledge of the soul is the most important knowledge, but it is not discussed in any university. is presently studying these questions, but by this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement we are trying to educate

Kṛṣṇa consciousness is a serious education, not an ordinary religion.

If our children do not receive an education, we fear that they will suffer in the future. The guru takes the torchlight of knowledge and presents it before the living entity enveloped in darkness That knowledge relieves him from the sufferings of the darkness of ignorance.

That is the beginning of education. Now everyone is educated to think he is his body. If we recognize ourselves simply by our bodily “shirt” or “coat,” then we have no spiritual education

Mike Robinson: But if I understand you correctly, you seem to be educating people on a purely scientific

Our mission is to educate them.

Kotovsky: That is quite understandable hygienic knowledge.

The goal of this institution of Vedic culture is to educate every man for advancement in knowledge of

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.

People do not take this problem seriously, but the Bhagavad-gītā indicates that that is real education Real education is to inquire why, although we do not want to die, death comes.

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

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