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Prabhupāda: Not just for knowledge, because they do not get any knowledge. They have no knowledge. What is the knowledge? They talk all nonsense. What is the knowledge?

Now, what are the difference of degrees of knowledge? Brahman knowledge, Paramātmā knowledge and Bhagavān knowledge. The same thing: the knowledge of sunshine, the knowledge of sun globe and the knowledge of this predominating

In the material world there are so many gradations of education. people never finish grammar school or high school, whereas others go on and receive a university education But what is this rāja-vidyā, the king of education, the summum bonum of knowledge? Real knowledge is understanding what I am. Unless we come to the point of understanding what we are, we cannot attain real knowledge.

Yogeśvara: They just accumulate knowledge just for knowledge. They just accumulate knowledge just for knowledge sake. All these big...

Prabhupāda: No, because they have no knowledge. How we can enjoy life without knowledge? They also accept that for this comfortable situation they require knowledge---the engineering knowledge , this knowledge, that knowledge. But that knowledge is not sufficient. You require another knowledge. That you are lacking. This knowledge will not help you.

Vid means to know, knowledge. So Vedic literature means to receive knowledge, authoritative knowledge. Not false knowledge. False knowledge... There is difference between false knowledge and authoritative knowledge. more or less false knowledge. Not authoritative knowledge.

Patel: Science means knowledge. And knowledge is there. Knowledge means God.

Knowledge, knowledge.

The Lord replied, “Why should you not think you’re well educated?

Prabhupāda: That is faith---means on knowledge. So faith with knowledge is very good. But beginning must be faith---with knowledge or without knowledge.

Knowledge. That is knowledge, that "I have to work for Viṣṇu." That is knowledge.

Prabhupāda: Because Veda, Veda means knowledge. Knowledge means truth. Unless you come to the knowledge of truth, your knowledge is not perfect.

Prabhupāda: Transcendental knowledge. There are two kinds of knowledges: mundane knowledge and transcendental knowledge. Mundane knowledge means how to maintain this body, āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunam [Hitopadeśa 25],

Prabhupāda: Higher knowledge. Higher knowledge.

Prabhupāda: Everything depends on knowledge. Without knowledge, how can we make progress? Student means to acquire knowledge. Serious student means to acquire knowledge.

So knowledge from the authority is perfect. Knowledge by mental speculation is always imperfect. If you get knowledge, any knowledge, from the perfect, that knowledge is perfect. And if you get knowledge from imperfect, that knowledge is always imperfect. This is our process. One must approach the superior who is in knowledge. Then he gets the knowledge.

Knowledge is knowledge. It cannot be changed because there is secular, pecular and [indistinct]. Knowledge is knowledge. Just like this asmin dehe dehino 'smin. What is secular knowledge? It is knowledge for everyone. Within this body the active principle is there. And the secular knowledge says, "No, no, the active principle is outside." We have to accept it? Knowledge is knowledge. Two plus two is equal to everyone, everywhere. It is four.

Prabhupāda: Their knowledge is "perhaps." It is nonsense. They have no definite knowledge. "Perhaps" is not knowledge.

“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

Prabhupāda: This is knowledge, path of knowledge.