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Education and training

Bhagavad-gita As It Is

BG Chapters 1 - 6

In India there are many such ācārya families, but they have now degenerated due to insufficient education and training.
BG 6.42, Purport: Birth in a family of yogīs or transcendentalists—those with great wisdom—is praised herein because the child born in such a family receives a spiritual impetus from the very beginning of his life. It is especially the case in the ācārya or gosvāmī families. Such families are very learned and devoted by tradition and training, and thus they become spiritual masters. In India there are many such ācārya families, but they have now degenerated due to insufficient education and training. By the grace of the Lord, there are still families that foster transcendentalists generation after generation. It is certainly very fortunate to take birth in such families. Fortunately, both our spiritual master, Oṁ Viṣṇupāda Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja, and our humble self had the opportunity to take birth in such families, by the grace of the Lord, and both of us were trained in the devotional service of the Lord from the very beginning of our lives. Later on we met by the order of the transcendental system.

Lectures

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Engaged in such lusty affairs, embracing one another by the arms, all his education and training become bewildered, and he become attracted and stunned by the scene.
Lecture on SB 6.1.56-62 -- Surat, January 3, 1971, at Adubhai Patel's House: Kāma-liptena, engaged in such lusty affairs, embracing one another by the arms, jagāma hṛc-chaya-vaśaṁ sahasaiva vimohitaḥ, all his education and training become bewildered, and he become attracted and stunned by the scene. Stambhayann ātmanātmānaṁ
yāvat sattvaṁ yathā-śrutam.
stambhayann ātmanātmānaṁ
yāvat sattvaṁ yathā-śrutam
na śaśāka samādhātuṁ
mano madana-vepitam
[SB 6.1.62]
Madana-vepitam. Madana, this Cupid. When Cupid attacks somebody or one who... When one becomes, I mean to say, too much attracted by lust, all his education, all his culture, all his knowledge, becomes stunned. That is the... Therefore one has to avoid this society.

General Lectures

Every one of us born ignorant, and we require specific education and training for seeing things as they are.
Lecture to Technology Students (M.I.T.) -- Boston, May 5, 1968: This prayer is offering respectful obeisances to the spiritual master. Why? Because the spiritual master is the person who opens our eyes, complicated in ignorance, with the torch of transcendental knowledge. Timirāndhasya. Every one of us born ignorant, and we require specific education and training for seeing things as they are. Today I am very glad to meet you. You are all students of technology. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is also another technology. Unfortunately, in the modern state of civilization there are different department of knowledge. There is department of teaching medical science, there is department of teaching engineering, there is department of educating—so many other departments of knowledge. Unfortunately, there is no department for distributing knowledge in the science of the soul. But that is the important, most important thing, because the soul is the mainstay, is the background of all our movements.

Correspondence

1969 Correspondence

Before that, up to the 15th year, he should be given all sorts of education and training as brahmacari.
Letter to Rupanuga -- Los Angeles 8 August, 1969: Regarding Krishna Devi's proposal, that is too immature now. We have to see the boy's tendencies first. This will be judged when he is at least 16 years old. Before that, up to the 15th year, he should be given all sorts of education and training as brahmacari. We can't impose anything from so early age, because when he is grown up he may not like the idea. So all this contemplation is premature. For the present your duty is to make him healthy and strong, physically and spiritually. Of course, if our Krishna Conscious children are to marry, the marriage must be performed within our group.
Page Title:Education and training
Compiler:Laksmipriya
Created:06 of Dec, 2008
Totals by Section:BG=1, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=2, Con=0, Let=1
No. of Quotes:4