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The Journey of Self-Discovery 6
Modern university education practically prepares one to acquire a doggish mentality for accepting the Like the dogs, after finishing their so-called education the so-called educated persons move from door There are so many educated men who are unemployed – because they have been educated as dogs.
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Yogeśvara dāsa: They’re supposed to be the educated class too – brāhmaṇas.
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Those who give education in exchange for money – they are not brāhmaṇas. For instance, we are lecturing, educating people. We don’t say, “Give us a salary.” A brāhmaṇa is eager to see that people are educated. “Take free education and be educated; be a human being” – this is a brāhmaṇa’s concern: You see?
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But even in this human form of life, many, many births are required for one who is cultivating knowledge If one is actually cultivating spiritual knowledge – not in one life but in many, many lives – one eventually comes to the highest platform of knowledge and is called jñānavān, “the possessor of true knowledge.
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In other words, respectability was awarded according to culture and education. There is no question of your culture or education or knowledge. This is Kali-yuga.
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So if people have no compassion even toward their own parents, how can we educate them to protect the
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“Peacefulness, self-control, austerity, purity, tolerance, honesty, knowledge, wisdom, and religiousness
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Pratyakṣa, the process of receiving knowledge through direct perception, has no value, because our senses We have so many senses through which we can experience knowledge – the eyes, the ears, the nose, and so on – but because these senses are imperfect, whatever knowledge we get by exercising these senses This is imperfect knowledge. If you do not know, then your knowledge is imperfect.
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But to cultivate spiritual knowledge while one stays in his position – that is required. That is not possible; the animals cannot cultivate this knowledge. Therefore, if human beings do not cultivate spiritual knowledge, they’re exactly like animals (dharmeṇa
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In any case, we have love, and we expand it according to our knowledge. And when our knowledge is perfect, we come to the point of loving Kṛṣṇa. That is perfection.
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Kṛṣṇa is perfect, so we take knowledge from Him.
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Now, why does a man in knowledge surrender to Kṛṣṇa? After cultivating knowledge for many, many births, a person who expands his consciousness up to the point
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This is the real culture of knowledge. If you cultivate this knowledge and at the same time go on doing your business, your life will be successful
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. … If you cultivate this knowledge and at the same time go on doing your business, your life will be
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You have to get knowledge from a superior person and follow his instructions.
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whatever position Kṛṣṇa has posted you, do your duty nicely, but do not forget to cultivate Kṛṣṇa knowledge
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And our purpose in the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is to spread the knowledge contained in the Bhagavad-gītā Then the human society will profit from this knowledge.
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Lord, and therefore we find in their activities the desire for eternal existence, the desire for knowledge
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Unless we cultivate all this knowledge, we are simply wasting our time, wasting our valuable human form
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So cultivating knowledge of God is the highest culture.
Hierarchy
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