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For eating, for sleeping, for having sex intercourse, there is no use of education. Everyone knows automatically. But at the present moment, the whole education is on this point. Real education - what is life, what is goal of life - they do not know

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"for eating, for sleeping, for having sex intercourse and to defend, there is no use of education. Everyone knows automatically. But at the present moment, the whole education is on this point. Real education—what is life, what is goal of life—they do not know"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1973 Conversations and Morning Walks

He knows how to do it. Therefore I was explaining the other day, that for eating, for sleeping, for having sex intercourse and to defend, there is no use of education. Everyone knows automatically. But at the present moment, the whole education is on this point. Real education—what is life, what is goal of life—they do not know. This is the point.

Prabhupāda: Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam (BG 13.9). The highest perfection is how to save oneself from these four miserable condition: birth, death, old age and disease. They do not know. Nobody knows. Here is the process, Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If people become Kṛṣṇa conscious, then he can solve these problems. That is real defense. (pause)

So defense, automatically the small birds are taking. You see? They are so alert that the water cannot overcome them. Immediately they flee, by nature. This boy, his leg became full of water, but they are not. (laughter) They are so careful. Just see. By nature they are defending. Just see. Such a big wave is coming for him, "Yes, fly away," immediately.

Devotee: Even while he's eating, he's still . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes. He knows how to do it. Therefore I was explaining the other day, that for eating, for sleeping, for having sex intercourse and to defend, there is no use of education. Everyone knows automatically. But at the present moment, the whole education is on this point. Real education—what is life, what is goal of life—they do not know. This is the point.

Prajāpati: Śrīla Prabhupāda, the little children now, their favorite game is to play "Śrīla Prabhupāda." They will make a vyāsāsana, the children, and one will play you, and they'll sit on it and get a gong, and they'll have play cookies, and the other children will come and take the cookies. They play like that. Then they hold class. They have a Bhagavad-gītā, and they'll chant oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. And then after that they will just make up, nu na boy ee char, (imitates chanting) like that. (Prabhupāda laughs)

Page Title:For eating, for sleeping, for having sex intercourse, there is no use of education. Everyone knows automatically. But at the present moment, the whole education is on this point. Real education - what is life, what is goal of life - they do not know
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-09-26, 04:02:44
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
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