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According to Vedic system, education has to be taken from high class, intellectual person like the brahmins

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"According to Vedic system, education has to be taken from high class, intellectual person like the brahmins"

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Sri Brahma-samhita Lectures

Nīcād apy uttamāṁ vidyām. Nīcā. According to Vedic system, education has to be taken from high class, intellectual person like the brahmins. But if you find that a person who is not a brahmin—he's less than a brahmin, or even lower caste—but if he has got some nice education, just accept him as your teacher and learn. Not that, "Because he's lowborn or not brahmin, I shall not take the education from him." The point is that you have to take the education.

Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is not that we are out to make Christians Hindus, or Hindus Christian, or Muhammadan . . . no. Our propaganda is not that. Our propaganda is that, "You are human being. Your business is to understand your relationship with God." That's all. You learn it. Anywhere you learn it, but you learn it. Otherwise you are simply wasting your time by animal propensities.

So you are nobody's enemy; you are everyone's friend, because we are showing the right way. Try to love Kṛṣṇa, or God. That's all. If you have got any own process, do it. Otherwise, please come to us. Learn it. Why one should grudge? Nīcād apy uttamāṁ strī-ratnaṁ duṣkulād api (Nīti-darpaṇa 1.16). Cāṇakya Paṇḍita says that you have to catch up the right thing from any source. It doesn't matter. He gives example: viṣād api amṛtaṁ grāhyam. If there is a pitcher of poison, but if there is some nectarine over the pitcher, you catch it, take it out. Don't take the poison, but take the nectarine. Amedhyād api kāñcana. If you find that in a filthy place there is some gold, take it out. You are not to take the filthy stool, but you take the gold.

Nīcād apy uttamāṁ vidyām. Nīcā. According to Vedic system, education has to be taken from high class, intellectual person like the brahmins. But if you find that a person who is not a brahmin—he's less than a brahmin, or even lower caste—but if he has got some nice education, just accept him as your teacher and learn. Not that, "Because he's lowborn or not brahmin, I shall not take the education from him." The point is that you have to take the education.

And strī-ratnaṁ duṣkulād api. In India, still, the marriage takes place in equal family. The boy and the girl must be equally rich, equally cultured, equally educated. Equality. They find out. Even by horoscope, they test whether their astronomical calculations are also equal, so that after marriage they may not be unhappy. So many things, they are taken care of by the parents, and the marriage takes place. It is not that in youthful age the boy and girl mixes and . . . no. There are so many. But these things are now gone.

So the point is that they were calculating especially to accept a girl from a family, they must be equal. But Cāṇakya Paṇḍita says that if a girl is well qualified, strī-ratna . . . strī-ratna means . . . ratna means jewel. If a girl is just like jewel, very qualified, even she is born in low family, accept her. Nīcād apy uttamāṁ vidyāṁ strī-ratnaṁ duṣkulād api. Duṣkulād api means born of low family. Never mind. Don't care for her parentage. If she's qualified, accept her. There are many instances.

Similarly, if you are serious about understanding God, don't consider that, "I am Christian," "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim," "Why shall I go this? Why shall I hear from Swāmījī?" If you are serious about understanding God, and to love God, then here is the nicest process. That is practical. There is no question of grudging, "Oh, why shall I go there? They are following some Hindu, Vedic scripture." No. There is no question of Vedic scripture. We . . . our business is how to love God. That's all.

Page Title:According to Vedic system, education has to be taken from high class, intellectual person like the brahmins
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-10-15, 15:28:45
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