Hare Krsna to all

Pranams

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Below are a few paragraphs of yet another brilliant lecture by Srila

Prabhupada on the differences of education between the Asuras and the

Devatas.

1.The demons want to make machines solve all their problems,

while the Devatas understand that Lord Vishnu, or Krsna, wants us to

live off the land–“Sarva Kama dugha mahi”  .

2.He says the Indians are coming to America to learn machine and the

Americans and European devotees are going to India to learn how to

become Brahmanas.

3.He also mentions that people living in the cities are in darkness and  that

they do not want to produce their own food.

4.Lastly, Prabhupada mentions that any common sense man can read

and understand the Bhagavad Gita. In other words, no need for an

intermediary (so called “living guru”) to interpret it for you  !

Hare Krsna

Damaghosa das

750803SB.DET                    Lectures                   Prabhupada: Celibacy, yes. Life of celibacy, controlling the sex desire.  This is tapasya. Tapasa brahmacaryena samena damena va. These things are  education. And what is this nonsense education how to become a big mechanics  of motorcar parts? This is not education. This is sudra, sudra education. It  is not education. It is called silpa. Silpa-vidya, brahma-vidya. Vidya  means brahma-vidya. Therefore, in the Vedic society, education was meant for  the brahmanas. Education was not meant for the sudras. Education was meant  for the brahmanas, and partially of the ksatriyas, neither of the vaisyas nor  of the sudras. What education? Vaisyas livelihood is, or his occupational  duty is, how to produce food, how to give protection to the cows, and if  there is excess stock, how to trade with it. So anyone can learn by  seeing only. It doesn’t require any high education. If the father is  tilling the field, the son can learn it by seeing it. If the father…  Just like in Vrndavana, we… Krsna… Krsna was going to tend the cows  and calves of Nanda Maharaja. There was no education. It can be  learned simply by seeing others doing that. So at the present moment  education means many Indians are coming to America to learn how to  polish motorcar parts or how to create technology. So this is not  education. This is not ed… But the Europeans and Americans,  they are going to

India for learning brahma-vidya. That is education. The Europeans and Americans, when they go to Vrndavana and Mayapur, they do  not go there to see how we have manufacturd cycle and machine for sewing.  They have seen enough of this. We may be very proud in India: “Now we  are manufacturing cycle and sewing machine or some motor parts,  advanced.” This is not advanced. Education means how to make one brahmana,  how to teach him how he become sense controlled, sama, dama, mind  control, how to become truthful, how to become clean, how to become simple,  how to become full of knowledge, how to apply knowledge in practical  life, how to know God. This is education. This is  education.

 So the present situation of the human civilization is very,  very dark, tamasa. They want to live in the city without working  for producing their food. And there are butchers, they kill  innocent animals. And in the city they eat the meat, and to digest they  drink and work like hogs and dogs whole day and night. This is  civilization. This is not civilization. This is darkness, darkness of  life. So we are in the darkness of life at the present moment because it  is Kali-yuga, and…

Krsna is personal Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself. He came to  show His mercy, and therefore He left Bhagavad-gita to be read by common…  Any common man can understand. But the rascals are so rigid that they will  misinterpret. Krsna left it for reading it by everyone. Any common man can  understand.    So the time is very, very, bad, and even there  is attempt to deliver them, they are so rigid and so stubborn, dog obstinacy,  they want to remain in the doggish condition of life. It is very,  very difficult. But Caitanya Mahaprabhu is so kind……