Thursday, 23 October 2014

Śrīla Prabhupāda Says


     So the education at the present moment throughout the whole world is Sanda-Amarka education. For a devotee such kind of education has no value.

Āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunaṁ ca.


      Everyone is being educated how to live comfortably with reference to the comforts of the body. This is not education. Real education is to understand oneself, self-realization, and with that purpose one should make progress in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that beginning with śravaṇaṁ.


      As we are hearing, without śravaṇa there is no beginning of spiritual education. Satāṁ prasaṅgād mama vīrya-saṁvidaḥ. That śravaṇa, hearing also, should be accepted from devotee, from real devotee.

      Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī recommended that a brāhmaṇa... He wrote something about Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and there were so many discrepancies.

      So Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī was not at all satisfied with such writings. He chastised the brāhmaṇa that “You cannot write.” So unless one is self-realized, there is practically no use writing about Kṛṣṇa.

     This transcendental writing does not depend on material education. It depends on the spiritual realization.

     You’ll find, therefore, in the comments of Bhāgavatam by different ācāryas, even there are some discrepancies, they are accepted as asat-patha. It should remain as it is.

[Srimad-Bhagavatam Lecture: 7.5.23-24 - Vṛndāvan, March 31, 1976]

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