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“But it is for the advancement of knowledge,” said the biologist. “So it is worthwhile. It is for the advancement of knowledge.”

“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?”

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.”

“Is the spiritual knowledge of China advanced?”

This transcendental knowledge, Abhay explained, had been known in India for thousands of years, and this knowledge – although presently obscured – was India’s real gift to the world.

This supposedly educated man was so ignorant as to mistake Kṛṣṇa consciousness for merely another sectarian intelligent men to try to understand Kṛṣṇa consciousness and understand that the Gītā was actual knowledge , transcendental knowledge, beyond the inferior knowledge of the senses and the mind.

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

India’s Vedic knowledge is above all the conditional defects mentioned above. But we Indians at the present moment have neglected such wonderful Vedic knowledge.

Abhay explained how Lord Kṛṣṇa had delivered transcendental knowledge to Brahmā, the creator of this From Brahmā the knowledge had descended to Nārada, from Nārada to Vyāsa, from Vyāsa to Madhva … . Because Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta was presenting the Vedic knowledge as is, without any interpretation – in paramparā – he was the bona fide ācārya who could enlighten others with the revealed knowledge of

Prabhupāda: “Perfect knowledge means what you say is correct. There is no mistake.”

“So we worship the guru,” said Prabhupāda, “because he gives us superior knowledge. Not this knowledge of how to eat, how to sleep, how to have sex life and defend. Generally, the political leaders, the social leaders, they give this knowledge: how to eat, how to sleep He has divya-jñāna, superior knowledge. That is required. It is not ordinary knowledge.

Poverty means poverty of knowledge. He was proud of his spiritual knowledge. Therefore spiritual knowledge makes a man really rich man and not the radio set or the motorcar etc.

Professor: “I have great difficulty with the meaning of the term perfect knowledge. Could you – ”

Prabhupāda: “It is not my advice, but it is the advice of the Vedic knowledge that woman should be chaste

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.

Gentlemen, our knowledge is so poor, our senses are so imperfect and our sources are so limited that it is not possible for us to have even the slightest knowledge of the absolute region without surrendering

This is so because he has no depth of spiritual knowledge for himself although he is Brahmin and Pandit Ignorance in spiritual knowledge is the qualification of the Sudras or the labouring class.

But if we want perfect knowledge of God, then we have to consult śāstra.”

Knowledge by Authoritative Tradition

We have scientific knowledge from the Vedas.”