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Finished means as soon as this body is finished, all my opulence, beauty, education, strength---everything Just like a dog cannot get university education. That is not possible. He must get a human body. This is the king of education. Pratyakṣā... Su-sukhaṁ. This is the fact, that people must have sane brain to understand, to take this king of education. This is the right education, and this is the platform of unity.
Śrī Īśopaniṣad, Mantra 9
Worse still are those engaged in the so-called culture of knowledge." So there are two kinds of education: material education and spiritual education, brahma-vidyā and jaḍa-vidyā That is not knowledge. Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has sung very nicely: jaḍa-vidyā saba māyāra vaibhava. That is real knowledge. That is real knowledge. We shall desire only to serve Kṛṣṇa. So education..., education required, but if education is wrongly diverted, it is very, very dangerous
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.9
And śruta means knowledge-gathering. Just like you gather knowledge from book. senses direct, knowledge, working senses. They have full knowledge. Education means for them, those who are intelligent, for them. Education is not for masses. Now it is called mass education. So mass education means it will produce undesirable elements.
Morning Walk
What is this education? Now people have become, by education, advanced... Prabhupāda: That is faith---means on knowledge. So faith with knowledge is very good. But beginning must be faith---with knowledge or without knowledge. If you don't go to school, there is no question of education. Where is the question of education?
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.113
This is knowledge. Veda means knowledge, the source of knowledge. That is called Veda. To study thoroughly does not require much education; simply you believe Him. Then what about their education?" Yes, their education, certainly, but māyayāpahṛta-jñānā. The result of education, knowledge, that is taken away by māyā.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.16
In this material world, even those who are apparently advanced in education have the propensity to consider This is the process of education. If one does not ask, "Who am I? What is the goal of my life?" Vidvān means one who possesses knowledge. So even though one possesses all material knowledge, if his knowledge is used for the wrong end, if it They are unable to take to spiritual knowledge.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.40
That is not perfect knowledge. It is not man-made knowledge. They are not educated themselves, but their education is by hearing from the authority. This is real education. Therefore Vedas' another name is śruti. This is the technology, beginning of transcendental knowledge, or spiritual knowledge.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.8
Knowledge, there are different types of knowledge. Real knowledge is Vedic knowledge, Vedānta knowledge = to know oneself, "What I am, what is God, Bhagavān The university education is blind, andha. What university education? This is the education. This education is described here that duṣpārasya, andhasya duṣpārasya.
Bhagavad-gītā 7.2
But at the present moment, people are advanced in so-called education. So at the present moment the education system is so bad that it is practically animal education. Animal education means when at the present moment the education system is so bad that it is practically animal education. is animal education.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.22
That is advancement of education. They are analyzing, one after another. But he is receiving knowledge from the perfect, and he's simply repeating that knowledge. Or Vedic knowledge. Now, to be ascertained, education, that why it is called Kṛṣṇa is the origin, that is research work. That is education. That is wanted. Am I right? Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Bhagavad-gītā 4.24–34
So the education was free. To every student, education was free. And village to village, education was... villages—there was some small school, and all the village boys, they were coming and they are taking education So education was very much widespread, because education was free in this way. It is the life and soul of all education.
Bhagavad-gītā 13.22
Unfortunately, there is no education, there is no knowledge about this throughout the whole world. Unfortunately there is no discussion, there is no education, there is no institute for this important This knowledge is not coming. There is no system of education. What is the purpose of Vedic knowledge? The purpose of Vedic knowledge = to understand Kṛṣṇa. So therefore it is essence of Vedic knowledge. This essence of Vedic knowledge is there.