Education
≻ Modern Education a Global Failure Instead of wasting our energy to supply ourselves with so many facilities and modern amenities, we should apply intelligence to understand who and what we are. More
≻ Spiritual Progress Is Not Dogmatic In essence, when we examine the different presentations by the different avatars or incarnations, we see the same direction. Spiritual life is progressive. People tend to think it's like one dogmatic thing, but it's not. It's like education. We begin by making mud pies in kindergarten, and the teacher commends us, "Oh, that's very good, you're doing very nicely." But if your students were to start making mud pies, you'd think, "What is this?" Because they have advanced. More
≻ Philosophy is for Speculators - Hansadutta presents the science of Krishna Consciousness The knowledge of anything comes from within the heart, but externally you have to go through the process. Education is a process. More
≻ Where does knowledge begin? - Hansadutta presents the science of Krishna Consciousness From the Vedic perspective, knowledge must be received from higher authority, even the most ordinary knowledge. Like if I ask, "How many people in this room know who is their mother and father?", everyone will say, "Yes, I know," but if I then ask, "How do you know?" You were not present when conception took place. You have accepted it on the authority of someone, either your mother, your father, your brother, your sister. But to know anything, even the most ordinary affairs, we accept some authority. More
≻ The Maha Mantra - Hansadutta presents the science of Krishna Consciousness The whole idea is to chant the maha-mantra for some time before we attempt to make a serious or meaningful presentation in terms of knowledge. The example is just like at the beginning of the class - at least when I was a little boy - the teacher wiped the whole slate clean, and then we were ready for a new day. So it's like that. It's meant to kind of clear your mind and make it more receptive and attentive and available to the subject matter. More
≻ Religion Free-For-All If somebody says, "I don't care for God. But my religion is simply to cut throat." Is that religion? More
≻ Wasting Time at University Education is required if you require to understand the value of life. More
≻ Futility or Utility of an Education If university education isn’t used to establish the supremacy of Krishna and goal of human society, which is to attain to Krishna consciousness or pursue it, then the education is actually a great detriment, and a person would be better off without it, because undergoing the ordeal of getting the education just for the sake of getting a job is not very important. More
≻ Busy Dying You were born to die. More
≻ Educators teaching children to spill their brains From the beginning, if he is a brahmachari and does not misuse his semen, then he will become intelligent and strong and fully grown. For want of this education, everyone's brain and bodily growth are being stunted. More
≻ Absent from school We disagree that everyone should go through the same training. The spiritual master should judge the tendency or disposition of the student at the start of his education. More
≻ The Primary Problem is Set Aside Here is the typical example of Bhagavatam's teaching how "the solution undertaken to solve one material problem becomes a bigger problem than the original problem attempted to be solved." More
≻ Schooled to wear a leash After finishing a so-called education, the so-called educated persons move like dogs from door to door with applications for some service, and mostly they are driven away... More
≻ Save the Children It is the duty of the state, duty of the father, duty of the teacher, duty of the spiritual master to give chance to the small children to develop in such a way that he becomes fully realized spiritual soul at the end and so that his miserable life in the material existence is over. More
≻ Got Trust? Without God consciousness, there cannot be any education. There cannot be any good qualities. You do not know this. Simply you are crying in the wilderness. More
≻ Herded off to college Higher education is not meant for everyone. Only selected individuals trained in brahminical culture should be allowed to pursue a higher education. Educational institutions should not aim to teach technology... More
≻ Training children to control their senses In the beginning he should learn how to restrain his senses. If a child is taught to become saintly, his semen rises to his brain, and he is able to understand spiritual values. Wasting semen decreases intelligence. More
≻ FAIL: Universities missing the point of education What university education? They give some technical education, to earn money and eat and sleep and have sex life and die. This is the education. More
≻ A Headless Society At the present moment there is no intelligent class of men. But kalau shudra-sambhavah. Therefore things are all in chaos. Everywhere you go, any part of the world, nobody is happy, either in family or community and society, nationwide, you take. Everywhere is distrust, unhappiness, godlessness. Because the intelligent class of men is finished. More
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≻ Spiritual Progress Is Not Dogmatic In essence, when we examine the different presentations by the different avatars or incarnations, we see the same direction. Spiritual life is progressive. People tend to think it's like one dogmatic thing, but it's not. It's like education. We begin by making mud pies in kindergarten, and the teacher commends us, "Oh, that's very good, you're doing very nicely." But if your students were to start making mud pies, you'd think, "What is this?" Because they have advanced. More
≻ Philosophy is for Speculators - Hansadutta presents the science of Krishna Consciousness The knowledge of anything comes from within the heart, but externally you have to go through the process. Education is a process. More
≻ Where does knowledge begin? - Hansadutta presents the science of Krishna Consciousness From the Vedic perspective, knowledge must be received from higher authority, even the most ordinary knowledge. Like if I ask, "How many people in this room know who is their mother and father?", everyone will say, "Yes, I know," but if I then ask, "How do you know?" You were not present when conception took place. You have accepted it on the authority of someone, either your mother, your father, your brother, your sister. But to know anything, even the most ordinary affairs, we accept some authority. More
≻ The Maha Mantra - Hansadutta presents the science of Krishna Consciousness The whole idea is to chant the maha-mantra for some time before we attempt to make a serious or meaningful presentation in terms of knowledge. The example is just like at the beginning of the class - at least when I was a little boy - the teacher wiped the whole slate clean, and then we were ready for a new day. So it's like that. It's meant to kind of clear your mind and make it more receptive and attentive and available to the subject matter. More
≻ Religion Free-For-All If somebody says, "I don't care for God. But my religion is simply to cut throat." Is that religion? More
≻ Wasting Time at University Education is required if you require to understand the value of life. More
≻ Futility or Utility of an Education If university education isn’t used to establish the supremacy of Krishna and goal of human society, which is to attain to Krishna consciousness or pursue it, then the education is actually a great detriment, and a person would be better off without it, because undergoing the ordeal of getting the education just for the sake of getting a job is not very important. More
≻ Busy Dying You were born to die. More
≻ Educators teaching children to spill their brains From the beginning, if he is a brahmachari and does not misuse his semen, then he will become intelligent and strong and fully grown. For want of this education, everyone's brain and bodily growth are being stunted. More
≻ Absent from school We disagree that everyone should go through the same training. The spiritual master should judge the tendency or disposition of the student at the start of his education. More
≻ The Primary Problem is Set Aside Here is the typical example of Bhagavatam's teaching how "the solution undertaken to solve one material problem becomes a bigger problem than the original problem attempted to be solved." More
≻ Schooled to wear a leash After finishing a so-called education, the so-called educated persons move like dogs from door to door with applications for some service, and mostly they are driven away... More
≻ Save the Children It is the duty of the state, duty of the father, duty of the teacher, duty of the spiritual master to give chance to the small children to develop in such a way that he becomes fully realized spiritual soul at the end and so that his miserable life in the material existence is over. More
≻ Got Trust? Without God consciousness, there cannot be any education. There cannot be any good qualities. You do not know this. Simply you are crying in the wilderness. More
≻ Herded off to college Higher education is not meant for everyone. Only selected individuals trained in brahminical culture should be allowed to pursue a higher education. Educational institutions should not aim to teach technology... More
≻ Training children to control their senses In the beginning he should learn how to restrain his senses. If a child is taught to become saintly, his semen rises to his brain, and he is able to understand spiritual values. Wasting semen decreases intelligence. More
≻ FAIL: Universities missing the point of education What university education? They give some technical education, to earn money and eat and sleep and have sex life and die. This is the education. More
≻ A Headless Society At the present moment there is no intelligent class of men. But kalau shudra-sambhavah. Therefore things are all in chaos. Everywhere you go, any part of the world, nobody is happy, either in family or community and society, nationwide, you take. Everywhere is distrust, unhappiness, godlessness. Because the intelligent class of men is finished. More
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≻ Newspapers and MSM: Fail
Asking questions and getting answers is the whole engagement, according to Srila Prabhupada in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, First Canto. The students are asking questions and getting answers, the politicians are asking questions and getting answers, the housewife is asking questions and getting answers, everyone is asking questions and getting answers, and they go on asking questions and getting answers for the whole of their lives, but the questions and answers do not satisfy anyone. More
≻ Vedas unlocked from Sanskrit The Vedic mantras are received not by learning Sanskrit, but by hearing from the authorized person. Therefore it is called shruti. It is in Sanskrit because there was no other language. Sanskrit was the only language. So now they're being translated into English. So it doesn't matter whether it is in Sanskrit or English, one has to learn it by hearing from the proper person. More
≻ Fit for duty: physical fitness is not the main criterion The American boys, who have simply been trained as shudras, are not at all fit to fight in battle. More
≻ India's spiritual culture One reason I came to the West is that modern India has rejected spiritual knowledge. Today Indians think that if they can imitate Western technology, they will be happy. More
≻ In Search of Something From among these intelligent souls, those who are especially pious begin to keenly enquire about God and other spiritual topics. Others, who pursue ignoble material knowledge, cannot become successful in life and end up beating the chaff. More
≻ What is the standard of education? "I neither know where I've come from nor where I'm going, but people are calling me educated." More
≻ Murder and Madness Our viewpoint is that in the material world, who has accepted this material body—anyone, but we specially take the human society—they require treatment, everyone. Everyone is mentally diseased, and therefore he is unhappy. Everyone. More
≻ Back to School Modern university education practically prepares one to acquire a doggish mentality with which to accept the service of a greater master. After finishing a so-called education, the so-called educated persons move like dogs from door to door with applications for some service, and mostly they are driven away, informed of no vacancy. More
≻ Graduating to gut fish and sweep floors So at the present moment people are being educated to serve under somebody. Technology, one is very expert in some particular line of technology, say, computer machine... You know how to operate. It is a big qualification. But unless he gets a job under some big establishment, he is useless. He cannot live independently. More
≻ Skipping School Straight into Unlicensed Medical Practice Nor can anyone become a doctor by simply purchasing a book from the market and reading it at home. One has to be admitted to a medical college and undergo training under licensed doctors. More
≻ When Skipping School is Intelligent "You don't send your children to school?" "No, no, no, no. I... If we require some technologist, we can purchase. You pay some money; so many technologists you will get, M.A., Ph.D., D.H.C., C.H.C. All right, take payment and do business." More
≻ A book review: The Secret is out - Bhagavad-gita As It Is has the answers All the other books of the world... if they are burned, nothing will be lost, because it is all just deception. More
≻ Psychological Breakdown Disciple: Another reason they feel very depressed is that they feel powerless, that they have no power to control their destiny, that all the big social forces, all the big social powers, they're controlling their lives, and... More
≻ Violence at School When A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami (Srila Prabhupada) spoke these words in 1973, he was referring to the misdirection of modern education, which back then was churning out hippies, but now we see the literal truth of his words. More
≻ The Case for Teaching Krishna Consciousness in Schools So if you take that process and allow this Krishna consciousness among the students, oh, it will be great service to the humanity. As a teacher, you will give the greatest service. More
≻ The Real American Idols Karandhara: They trust the doctors the first, and they trust television the second. Prabhupada: Television. Karandhara: Whatever they see on television, they accept. Prabhupada: Why they give so much authority to television? More
≻ The Beginning of Education: Don't Leave Religion Out This is the greatest drawback of modern education, that not only in your country or any country they have completely neglected what is meant by God. More
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≻ Vedas unlocked from Sanskrit The Vedic mantras are received not by learning Sanskrit, but by hearing from the authorized person. Therefore it is called shruti. It is in Sanskrit because there was no other language. Sanskrit was the only language. So now they're being translated into English. So it doesn't matter whether it is in Sanskrit or English, one has to learn it by hearing from the proper person. More
≻ Fit for duty: physical fitness is not the main criterion The American boys, who have simply been trained as shudras, are not at all fit to fight in battle. More
≻ India's spiritual culture One reason I came to the West is that modern India has rejected spiritual knowledge. Today Indians think that if they can imitate Western technology, they will be happy. More
≻ In Search of Something From among these intelligent souls, those who are especially pious begin to keenly enquire about God and other spiritual topics. Others, who pursue ignoble material knowledge, cannot become successful in life and end up beating the chaff. More
≻ What is the standard of education? "I neither know where I've come from nor where I'm going, but people are calling me educated." More
≻ Murder and Madness Our viewpoint is that in the material world, who has accepted this material body—anyone, but we specially take the human society—they require treatment, everyone. Everyone is mentally diseased, and therefore he is unhappy. Everyone. More
≻ Back to School Modern university education practically prepares one to acquire a doggish mentality with which to accept the service of a greater master. After finishing a so-called education, the so-called educated persons move like dogs from door to door with applications for some service, and mostly they are driven away, informed of no vacancy. More
≻ Graduating to gut fish and sweep floors So at the present moment people are being educated to serve under somebody. Technology, one is very expert in some particular line of technology, say, computer machine... You know how to operate. It is a big qualification. But unless he gets a job under some big establishment, he is useless. He cannot live independently. More
≻ Skipping School Straight into Unlicensed Medical Practice Nor can anyone become a doctor by simply purchasing a book from the market and reading it at home. One has to be admitted to a medical college and undergo training under licensed doctors. More
≻ When Skipping School is Intelligent "You don't send your children to school?" "No, no, no, no. I... If we require some technologist, we can purchase. You pay some money; so many technologists you will get, M.A., Ph.D., D.H.C., C.H.C. All right, take payment and do business." More
≻ A book review: The Secret is out - Bhagavad-gita As It Is has the answers All the other books of the world... if they are burned, nothing will be lost, because it is all just deception. More
≻ Psychological Breakdown Disciple: Another reason they feel very depressed is that they feel powerless, that they have no power to control their destiny, that all the big social forces, all the big social powers, they're controlling their lives, and... More
≻ Violence at School When A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami (Srila Prabhupada) spoke these words in 1973, he was referring to the misdirection of modern education, which back then was churning out hippies, but now we see the literal truth of his words. More
≻ The Case for Teaching Krishna Consciousness in Schools So if you take that process and allow this Krishna consciousness among the students, oh, it will be great service to the humanity. As a teacher, you will give the greatest service. More
≻ The Real American Idols Karandhara: They trust the doctors the first, and they trust television the second. Prabhupada: Television. Karandhara: Whatever they see on television, they accept. Prabhupada: Why they give so much authority to television? More
≻ The Beginning of Education: Don't Leave Religion Out This is the greatest drawback of modern education, that not only in your country or any country they have completely neglected what is meant by God. More
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≻ Free from Anxieties It is
a drug. It is oblivion. Sometimes, for sometimes we forget everything,
but again when you come to your consciousness the same anxieties and
same thing are there. More
≻ Educated Asses If one does not understand what is God, his education is useless. It has no meaning. What is that education? Will that education save him from death? More
≻ The Cost of Unrestricted Sex When men have more sex, they lose the power to beget a male child. If the woman is sexually more powerful, a girl is born, and when the man is more powerful, a boy is born. This is Ayur-vedic science. More
≻ Modern Education Missing the Aim of Life This Krishna consciousness movement is not any sectarian movement. It is practically postgraduate movement of all religion. Any religion, they have got some idea of God. But here, we are explaining what is God, how great He is, how you can establish your relationship with Him. More
≻ Premise is the Problem The whole premise of modern civilization, based on the idea of advancement of education, technology, industry and economics is dismissed by us (VAISHNAVAS) as ERRONEOUS and therefore IRRELEVANT for the well being of this planet earth with its 4 to 5 billion human beings and innumerable animals, insects. More
≻ Education Means to Understand My Identity Actually, at the present moment there is no education, because education means to understand my identity. The so-called education which is going on, that is called art. Of course, they also say, "B.A., M.A., Bachelor of Art, Master of Art." It is just learning an art only; it is not education. More
≻ Ocean of Fiction That's what America has created and is continuing to create through technology and media like TV, movies, computers, magazines and books: an ocean of fiction. More
≻ Wanted: First-class Man We want to raise the fourth-class man to first-class man. First-class man means with qualification who can control the mind, control the senses, always very cleansed and truthful, very simple, full of all kinds of knowledge, practical application in life, then to have full knowledge of God, these are the characteristics of first-class man. More
≻ The Lowest of the Mankind
The civilized human being are those who have regulated principles of social, political and religious life. Those who are socially and politically developed but have no religious principles must be counted amongst the Naradhamas. More
≻ Why Our Schools Don't Have a Prayer Now things have gotten to the point that we can't even have prayer in the public schools. We used to have a prayer at the beginning of each school day. But then one atheist lady (and no doubt other people behind the scenes) pushed and pushed until the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional. Now prayer in the schools is banned. More
≻ Enough School Already—I'm Ready to Learn Something Useful I've only learned superficial things which can't help me or satisfy me. Therefore my heart is vacant and empty. I want my heart to be filled up with joy, with meaning, with purpose, and I want to exhibit my energies, my enthusiasm, my talents in some way where there is no reservation, no doubt, but I can't, because I don't know what I am. More
≻ Over-intelligent, Uncommonly Stupid The more educated they are, the more stupid they are. That means they made bigger calculations on the same mistake. They have invested more time and energy on a mistake than the common man. So they are uncommon. Uncommonly stupid. More
≻ After Everything Is Stripped Away When translated into English, dharma is almost always interpreted as religion. But religion means a kind of belief or faith, whereas the actual Sanskrit meaning of the word dharma is not to believe something, as in to be a Hindu, to be a Buddhist, to be a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew, etc. Dharma really means characteristic, the characteristic of the living being. More
≻ Batsasur The soul does not require to be treated with indulgence. He is neither young nor old in the worldly sense. The body and mind of the boy have to be employed in the interest of the soul.. More
≻ A Brief Overview of Vedic Mathematics Whenever I illustrate some basic principles of Vedic Math to my own students, they immediately (and inevitably) come up with the same, overwhelmingly unanimous query: "Why don't we learn math this way? Why aren't they teaching this system to us?" More
≻ It's not a matter of faith; it's a matter of science But there's more to the concept of Intelligent Design than religious faith. The Bhagavad-gita and other ancient Sanskrit texts of India such as Srimad-Bhagavatam expound scientifically on the origins of life and this universe and other universes besides and on anti-matter. The evidence goes well beyond the scope of a religion class. More
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≻ Educated Asses If one does not understand what is God, his education is useless. It has no meaning. What is that education? Will that education save him from death? More
≻ The Cost of Unrestricted Sex When men have more sex, they lose the power to beget a male child. If the woman is sexually more powerful, a girl is born, and when the man is more powerful, a boy is born. This is Ayur-vedic science. More
≻ Modern Education Missing the Aim of Life This Krishna consciousness movement is not any sectarian movement. It is practically postgraduate movement of all religion. Any religion, they have got some idea of God. But here, we are explaining what is God, how great He is, how you can establish your relationship with Him. More
≻ Premise is the Problem The whole premise of modern civilization, based on the idea of advancement of education, technology, industry and economics is dismissed by us (VAISHNAVAS) as ERRONEOUS and therefore IRRELEVANT for the well being of this planet earth with its 4 to 5 billion human beings and innumerable animals, insects. More
≻ Education Means to Understand My Identity Actually, at the present moment there is no education, because education means to understand my identity. The so-called education which is going on, that is called art. Of course, they also say, "B.A., M.A., Bachelor of Art, Master of Art." It is just learning an art only; it is not education. More
≻ Ocean of Fiction That's what America has created and is continuing to create through technology and media like TV, movies, computers, magazines and books: an ocean of fiction. More
≻ Wanted: First-class Man We want to raise the fourth-class man to first-class man. First-class man means with qualification who can control the mind, control the senses, always very cleansed and truthful, very simple, full of all kinds of knowledge, practical application in life, then to have full knowledge of God, these are the characteristics of first-class man. More
≻ The Lowest of the Mankind
The civilized human being are those who have regulated principles of social, political and religious life. Those who are socially and politically developed but have no religious principles must be counted amongst the Naradhamas. More
≻ Why Our Schools Don't Have a Prayer Now things have gotten to the point that we can't even have prayer in the public schools. We used to have a prayer at the beginning of each school day. But then one atheist lady (and no doubt other people behind the scenes) pushed and pushed until the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional. Now prayer in the schools is banned. More
≻ Enough School Already—I'm Ready to Learn Something Useful I've only learned superficial things which can't help me or satisfy me. Therefore my heart is vacant and empty. I want my heart to be filled up with joy, with meaning, with purpose, and I want to exhibit my energies, my enthusiasm, my talents in some way where there is no reservation, no doubt, but I can't, because I don't know what I am. More
≻ Over-intelligent, Uncommonly Stupid The more educated they are, the more stupid they are. That means they made bigger calculations on the same mistake. They have invested more time and energy on a mistake than the common man. So they are uncommon. Uncommonly stupid. More
≻ After Everything Is Stripped Away When translated into English, dharma is almost always interpreted as religion. But religion means a kind of belief or faith, whereas the actual Sanskrit meaning of the word dharma is not to believe something, as in to be a Hindu, to be a Buddhist, to be a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew, etc. Dharma really means characteristic, the characteristic of the living being. More
≻ Batsasur The soul does not require to be treated with indulgence. He is neither young nor old in the worldly sense. The body and mind of the boy have to be employed in the interest of the soul.. More
≻ A Brief Overview of Vedic Mathematics Whenever I illustrate some basic principles of Vedic Math to my own students, they immediately (and inevitably) come up with the same, overwhelmingly unanimous query: "Why don't we learn math this way? Why aren't they teaching this system to us?" More
≻ It's not a matter of faith; it's a matter of science But there's more to the concept of Intelligent Design than religious faith. The Bhagavad-gita and other ancient Sanskrit texts of India such as Srimad-Bhagavatam expound scientifically on the origins of life and this universe and other universes besides and on anti-matter. The evidence goes well beyond the scope of a religion class. More
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The Bhaktivedantas World Sankirtan Party - Education/