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Real education is, first of all, you must know what you are. You are this body or something else than the body

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"real education is, first of all, you must know what you are. You are this body or something else than the body"

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

The real education . . . real education is, first of all, you must know what you are. You are this body or something else than the body? Just like when a man dies, his son or relative laments, "Oh, my father has gone away." Now, father is lying there on the bed. Why do you say: "My father has gone away"? The father is lying on the bed. Therefore you did not see who is your father. After death you are realizing that your father is gone away. (loud applause) Then where is your education? You cannot see even your father; then where is your education? This is no education. Therefore you must know, "What I am, what is my father, what is my mother." That is real education.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: The question is that does man knows right from wrong because of his karma, or . . .

Prabhupāda: No. Karma may be. Just like you are sent to school, college, to understand the right and wrong. Therefore you must be educated to know what is right and wrong, not that you do like animals, whatever you like. There is education required, and because we have no education, therefore there are so many books of knowledge, Vedic knowledge. You have to take advantage of it, and then you'll understand what is right and wrong. Otherwise not.

Indian man (1): According to the present situation here in South Africa . . .

Prabhupāda: So you can take advantage.

Indian man (1): Man has a very high intelligence . . . (indistinct) . . . but the question is, most of the African people here are not educated in spite of their education. They look upon a man of intelligence for guidance . . .

Prabhupāda: The real education . . . real education is, first of all, you must know what you are. You are this body or something else than the body? Just like when a man dies, his son or relative laments, "Oh, my father has gone away." Now, father is lying there on the bed. Why do you say: "My father has gone away"? The father is lying on the bed. Therefore you did not see who is your father. After death you are realizing that your father is gone away. (loud applause) Then where is your education? You cannot see even your father; then where is your education? This is no education. Therefore you must know, "What I am, what is my father, what is my mother." That is real education.

Indian man (1): You see, the question regarding the . . .

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Just one question per person . . . (indistinct) . . . anyone else who as a question can come forward.

Indian man (2): Since the Bhagavad-gītā is the confidential message of from Lord Kṛṣṇa to Arjuna, can Swāmījī please explain how is it that Sañjaya is narrating to Dhṛtarāṣṭra, and how it came to pass that Vyāsadeva wrote the Bhagavad-gītā?

Prabhupāda: It is just like television nowadays. You can see things happening thousands of miles away in television, and you can explain to your friends. This is like that. It is a question of seeing power. So now we have got the instrument, television machine. It is not difficult to understand. In the football ground the matches is going on, and it is being relayed in your room. It is like that.

Indian man (3): Swāmījī, of all holy scriptures we have two books available to follow, and one is the Rāmāyaṇa and one is the Śrī Bhagavad-gītā. Can you give us or tell us who . . . (indistinct) . . .? 'Cause some people offer the reason that according to the Rāmāyaṇa we follow Rāma and Sītā as God. Can you just inform us the real or tell us who is our, the most of our . . . (indistinct) . . .?

Prabhupāda: So, we are . . . our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is to educate people on the principles of the teachings of Bhagavad-gītā. So if you understand Bhagavad-gītā thoroughly, then you will understand Lord Rāma also and other incarnations, because Kṛṣṇa is present with all the incarnations.

Page Title:Real education is, first of all, you must know what you are. You are this body or something else than the body
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-09-25, 08:07:13
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1