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Prabhupāda explained the Bhagavad-gītā verse, commenting that real knowledge was to know the difference To manufacture a nice car or machine was not education.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: “That means the rascals do not know that godlessness and godless education will be Without God consciousness, there cannot be any education, there cannot be any good qualities. All the education and its propaganda is to make the world godless, although the most scientific knowledge

“Is that education?” said Prabhupāda. “Better not to be educated. Those who are not educated, they can purchase five rupees’ worth of potatoes and sit down anywhere.

But that does not mean he is educated. Education is a different thing. But at the present moment the education is technical. Formerly this technical education was entrusted to the demons. Education, however, means brahma-vidyā, to understand what is the living force within the body – What

So Prabhupāda was explaining that this is their education, that after getting their education they have

“It requires education. The education is there, the books are there, the teachers are there. Unfortunately, you are not interested to take this spiritual education.

“Śrīla Prabhupāda,” Mahābuddhi said, “in my service I have to always meet many educated people, much more educated than I am.

“Ordinary education is sufficient,” Prabhupāda was saying “ – ABCD. This is nonsense – big, big education and then later on become a prostitute. To make them prostitute doesn’t require education. So in Dallas Gurukula there is no problem. Educate the girls how to become faithful, chaste wife, how to cook nicely.

“The first knowledge, then, that must be understood by human society is that we are not these bodies. It is very common knowledge. From this point, our spiritual knowledge can advance. If we do not know what spirit is, then what is the question of advancing in spiritual knowledge?”

They are educating.

Prabhupāda: “Yes, that is perfect knowledge. Not like the scientists. They change. This is not perfect knowledge. Perfect knowledge is that which you say, that is correct forever. If someone says, ‘Man dies,’ it is perfect knowledge. It is correct forever.”

had grown up in Manipur but after graduating from high school had come to America to continue his education first Thoudam had maintained his stance as a representative of the world of empirical scientific knowledge

They are so poor-hearted, their education has been so poorly given, that they cannot understand.”

But Aurobindo could not understand, because he did not take education from realized persons.

Kīrtanānanda: “That is the end of their knowledge – a pile of junk.”

Don’t be puffed up by your so-called education. It has no value.”

Do rupyā – and no knowledge. This darkness is going on, and people are kept in darkness in the name of so-called university education

“If you do not know, if you are not educated, if you have no asset, you can simply chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa And if you are educated, a logician, a philosopher, you can read our books, which are already fifty in

We will teach the basic requirements of reading and writing but also give them real spiritual knowledge What other school of learning offers such a wonderful educational opportunity? But we have seen that the practical outcome of so much godless education in technology and science is

The social, political, educational, cultural – everything has to be changed.