A man is born fool, but he is made intelligent by educational culture
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"a man is born fool, but he is made intelligent by educational culture"
|"even an inexperienced boy with no educational culture can be saved"
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
CC Adi-lila
Lectures
Philosophy Discussions
Prabhupāda: Pleasure also, whatever you take, when you put the question of quality of pleasure... Just like ordinary people, they are taking pleasure in eating, sleeping, mating, drinking, like that. But Kṛṣṇa pleasure is transcendental pleasure. Very few people are taking it. Very small number. So the same question again, why he said that many number of people, they are taking pleasure, so-called pleasure in taking LSD? So will that be taken as pleasure or will that be accepted? We are talking of philosophy.
Śyāmasundara: Qualitatively that's not a very high pleasure, so he would not recommend it.
Prabhupāda: What is his philosophy? First of all he says the greatest number of people, generally... After all, these conditioned souls, they are fools. So if the greatest number you take, that is a great number of fools only. Because in the conditioned state, abodha-jāto, they are all fools. Our Vedic philosophy is that a man is born fool, but he is made intelligent by educational culture. That is fact. That is fact. In practical life also we see that we send our boys, our children, to school to become educated. Out of the fools, so many fools, children, who go to school, some of them take degrees, and out of many who take the degrees, some of them become postgraduates, M.A., and out of many postgraduates, some of them become still more learned, doctor in philosophy, like that. So if you go to the quality, the number will decrease. You cannot say greatest number.Page Title: | A man is born fool, but he is made intelligent by educational culture |
Compiler: | Madhavananda |
Created: | 04 of Dec, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=1, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0 |
No. of Quotes: | 2 |