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Oliver: In the Western world the whole range of education covers only primary, secondary, and tertiary education.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: By thoroughly studying Bhagavad-gītā, one begins his spiritual education.

For example, you have become a scientist by proper training, proper education. It simply requires proper education to awaken it. However, this education is not given in the universities. That is the defect in modern education. the inclination to be Kṛṣṇa conscious is there, the authorities are unfortunately not giving any education

Śrīla Prabhupāda: We don’t say that this scientific knowledge is useless. Mechanics, electronics – this is also knowledge. But different departments of knowledge differ in their comparative importance. There are many different departments of knowledge, but the central point is ātma-jñāna – self-knowledge , the knowledge of the soul.

Benford: Well, scientific knowledge is a different class of knowledge.

Benford: Why is knowledge of myself better than knowledge of a plant?

The child may not know, but when he is a grown-up and has been educated and still he does not know, then what is the meaning of his education?

scientific understanding of the soul, Śrīla Prabhupāda declares, “We don’t say that this scientific knowledge Mechanics, electronics – this is also knowledge … but the central point is ātma-jñāna – self-knowledge , knowledge of the soul.”

Benford: I think that there is no category of knowledge that is useless.

Benford: There is knowledge about the structure of the physical world.

Benford: We have virtually no scientific knowledge about the soul.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: What is the current scientific knowledge about the spirit soul?

Śrīla Prabhupāda: Therefore you have actually made no advancement in scientific knowledge.

People are not very intelligent; therefore they are trying to avoid this department of knowledge, the most important department of knowledge. And they are simply busy in the departments of knowledge in which the animals are also busy. Your advancement of knowledge is comprised of four things – eating, sleeping, mating, and defending.

There are so many departments of knowledge: the medical study of the body, the psychological study of the mind, and ultimately spiritual, transcendental knowledge. neglect the person who is covered by this shirt and coat, do you think that this is advancement of knowledge

If you have no knowledge beyond this body, you cannot go beyond this bodily jurisdiction. You may have very gorgeous, polished bodily knowledge, but your whole range of activities is within these This knowledge is prevalent among the lower animals, also.

Benford: The only form of knowledge that is verifiable – that is, verifiable in the sense of getting

in-depth study of what is contained or outlined in this book, especially when he’s caught up in an educational

It is all done on the basis of love and education.

If the spiritual master is bona fide and the disciple is very sincere, then the knowledge will be there Yasya deve parā bhaktir yathā deve tathā gurau – Vedic knowledge is revealed unto those who have faith