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“This knowledge is the king of education, the most secret of all secrets. It is the purest knowledge, and because it gives direct perception of the self by realization, it is

If I donate to an educational institution, for instance, I will receive good educational facilities and will become highly educated in my next life. Being thus educated, I will attain a good position and will acquire a good amount of money.

Book knowledge without realization of the Supreme Truth is useless. This is stated as follows:

Our senses are so imperfect, how can we attain knowledge? We just have to hear and accept. This knowledge is beyond our means. The Vedas are called veda-mātā, or mother Vedas, because the knowledge imparted therein is like that knowledge received from the mother. We have to believe in order to acquire knowledge.

A Kṛṣṇa conscious person has realized knowledge, by the grace of Kṛṣṇa, because he is satisfied with By realized knowledge, one becomes perfect. By transcendental knowledge one can remain steady in his convictions, but by mere academic knowledge

This is also explained in the Vedānta-sūtra, which is the study of ultimate knowledge. The word veda means “knowledge,” and anta means “ultimate.” Ultimate knowledge is knowledge of the Supreme Lord.

Without training or education, one can automatically participate in bhakti-yoga.

Sat means “eternal,” cit means “knowledge,” and ānanda means “pleasure.” God has form, but His form is eternal and is full of knowledge and pleasure. Our form is neither eternal, full of pleasure, nor full of knowledge; therefore God’s form is different

Similarly, we may have a very high education, but what is our objective? This means that all the striving and all this high education are merely on the animal platform.

may ask, “If the Absolute Truth is so powerful, wise, and cognizant, He must have attained this knowledge If He attains His knowledge from someone else, He is not God. Svarāṭ. He is independent, and His knowledge is automatically there.

Sometimes missionaries go forth to educate primitive, uneducated people just because they see that they are human beings and so deserve to be educated in order to understand the value of life.

There are two processes by which we can acquire knowledge: one is the ascending process (āroha-panthā According to the descending process, one acquires knowledge simply by hearing from an authority, from

The word akṣaja refers to experimental knowledge, and adhaḥ means “unreachable.” So God cannot be reached through experimental knowledge.

We are constitutionally sac-cid-ānanda-eternal (sat), full of knowledge (cit), and full of bliss (ānanda Those who enter the impersonal brahmajyoti cannot remain there eternally with the knowledge that “Now Although there is eternality and knowledge, bliss (ānanda) is lacking.

“To show them special mercy, I, dwelling in their hearts, destroy with the shining lamp of knowledge

birth, old age, disease, and death and entering into a spiritual life full of eternality, bliss, and knowledge

self-realization and is called a yogi [or mystic] when he is fully satisfied by virtue of acquired knowledge

After performing karma-yoga, one comes to the platform of jñāna-yoga, knowledge. From the platform of knowledge, one attains to this aṣṭāṅga-yoga, the eightfold yoga system – dhyāna,

God may be understood by an uneducated person and misunderstood by one with great education.

The perfection of yoga means attaining a blissful, eternal life full of knowledge. I want eternal happiness, complete knowledge, and eternal life – that is the ultimate end of the true