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By eagerness, you’ll automatically be enriched with knowledge and detachment. Knowledge does not mean “Now we have discovered this atomic bomb.” That is not knowledge. What knowledge is that? But we are giving knowledge to stop death. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness; that is knowledge. And as soon as you get this knowledge, automatically you become detached from all this nonsensical materialistic

iti sa mahātmā su-durlabhaḥ: “When one understands that Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa, is everything, one is in knowledge Before that, there is no knowledge. It is simply misunderstanding. So if you do not understand Kṛṣṇa, where is your knowledge? Halfway knowledge is no knowledge. We want complete knowledge, and that complete knowledge is possible by the grace of Kṛṣṇa, through Bhagavad-gītā

“After many, many births, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me.” The impersonalists are passing themselves off as jñānīs, but they have no knowledge at all. Vedānta means “the ultimate knowledge.” So the subject matter of ultimate knowledge is Kṛṣṇa, God. If one does not know who God is, who Kṛṣṇa is, then where is one’s knowledge? But if a rascal claims, “I am a man of knowledge,” then what can be done?

Devotee: But how does bhakti tie in to the conclusion of Vedāntic knowledge or wisdom? and easiest path of God realization, but it also says that the Vedāntic teachings stress jñāna, or knowledge

That spiritual knowledge was imparted by Kṛṣṇa to Arjuna in the beginning of the Bhagavad-gītā. Being a friend of Kṛṣṇa’s, Arjuna was a very intelligent man, but his knowledge, as all men’s, was limited Kṛṣṇa spoke, however, of subject matters which were beyond Arjuna’s finite knowledge. These subjects are called adhokṣaja because our direct perception, by which we acquire material knowledge

There are many universities, especially in the United States, and many departments of knowledge, but Where is the department for this knowledge that we find given by Śrī Kṛṣṇa in the Bhagavad-gītā? What, then, is the difference between man’s knowledge and the animals’ knowledge? The fact is that man’s knowledge should be developed to explore that difference between a living body

For education we go to a teacher or to a school or simply learn from our father and mother. we get spiritual information from an authority, and if the authority is not a cheater, then our knowledge Because we are limited and our experience is limited, the inductive process of acquiring knowledge will

The word veda means “knowledge,” and anta means “end.” So the meaning of vedānta is “the ultimate knowledge,” and the Vedānta-sūtra teaches this. And all veda, or knowledge, culminates in Him. “The purpose of all the Vedas, all books of knowledge, is to search out Me.”

who has opened my eyes, which were blinded by the darkness of ignorance, with the torchlight of knowledge

this material universe and are postulating different theories and proposals, but the real means for knowledge By accepting the knowledge imparted in Bhagavad-gītā, anyone can immediately know that this great cosmic

It is not possible to understand these things by experimental knowledge. should try to realize how incapable we are of understanding God and God’s kingdom by experimental knowledge No one can understand who his father is by experimental knowledge.

“The seriously inquisitive student or sage, well equipped with knowledge and detachment, realizes the

As we advance, we become perfect in knowledge. His knowledge is perfect because it is coming from perfect books of knowledge, such as the Bhagavad-gītā

Our process of knowledge is very easy. Kṛṣṇa’s instruction, Bhagavad-gītā, is the principal book of knowledge given by the ādi-puruṣa Himself The treasure house of knowledge is contained in the Vedas, and their author, Vyāsadeva, accepts Kṛṣṇa

At the present moment, all over the world people are lacking knowledge of this simple thing: that all

Yet how is it that Vedāntic teachings, which stress jñāna [knowledge, or intellectual speculation], are

is the duty of the spiritual master to open the eyes of the person in darkness with the torch of knowledge

in this Kali-yuga people will not be able to study Vedānta-sūtra nicely on account of a lack of education

The literal meaning of the word guru is “heavy” – heavy with knowledge and authority, because his knowledge

service unto Me – the distressed, the desirer of wealth, the inquisitive, and he who is searching for knowledge