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* '''Awakening Dormant Love for Kṛṣṇa:''' The purpose of all culture and education is to revive the eternal loving relationship between the ''jīva'' and Kṛṣṇa through proper spiritual training. | * '''Awakening Dormant Love for Kṛṣṇa:''' The purpose of all culture and education is to revive the eternal loving relationship between the ''jīva'' and Kṛṣṇa through proper spiritual training. | ||
* Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: [[Vanipedia:Foundation and Need of Kṛṣṇa Conscious Education|Foundation and Need of Kṛṣṇa Conscious Education.]] | |||
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Latest revision as of 20:56, 22 December 2025
Theme Analysis
Krsna Conscious Education, as taught by Śrīla Prabhupāda, is the transcendental process of training the human being to revive his original consciousness as an eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa. Unlike material education, which strengthens bodily identification and sense gratification, this education purifies the mind, awakens dormant devotion, and establishes real knowledge of the self. It is meant for all humanity and must begin early in life to shape character, responsibility, and surrender to the Supreme Lord.
- Education Beyond Material Designations: Real education does not depend on aristocratic birth, wealth, or academic achievement, but on awakening consciousness beyond the body and mind toward service to Kṛṣṇa.
- Early Training in Devotional Life: Krsna conscious education should begin from childhood, especially during the kaumāra age, to firmly establish spiritual values and lifelong devotion.
- Responsibility of Leaders and Guardians: Fathers, mothers, teachers, and governments bear a sacred duty to educate their dependents in Kṛṣṇa consciousness for liberation from material bondage.
- Awakening Dormant Love for Kṛṣṇa: The purpose of all culture and education is to revive the eternal loving relationship between the jīva and Kṛṣṇa through proper spiritual training.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Foundation and Need of Kṛṣṇa Conscious Education.
whenever Srila Prabhupada refers to education in Krsna consciousness we place the quotes here.
Pages in category "Krsna Conscious Education"
The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total.
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- A Krsna conscious education means one is trained to give up material consciousness altogether. That is perfect Krsna consciousness
- A responsible father never begets children like cats and dogs. Instead of being encouraged to adopt artificial means of birth control, people should be educated in KC because only then will they understand their responsibility to their children
- Actually, everything belongs to Krsna. Krsna says, bhoktaram yajna-tapasam sarva-loka-mahesvaram (BG 5.29). He's the proprietor. But because people are not educated in Krsna consciousness, they are thinking - I am the proprietor
- An aristocratic birth, an advanced education, beautiful bodily features, wealth and similar results of pious activities are all unnecessary for advancement in spiritual life, for one can very easily advance simply by chanting the holy name
- As education begins at the age of five years, similarly, Krsna consciousness, or bhagavata-dharma, should be taught to the children as soon as the child is five years old. That is his (Prahlada) instruction
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- Education in Krsna consciousness is always transcendental and is the best of all forms of education
- Education of Krsna consciousness should be given from the very childhood, kaumara. Kaumara means from the age of fifth year up to the tenth year. This is called kaumara age
- Even if one is highly elevated in material education and is even the disciple of Brhaspati, he still has to learn from the gopis and the other residents of Vrndavana how to love Krsna to the highest degree
- Even they (the children who will be educated in Krsna consciousness) are not literary person, they will have character and they'll become Krsna devotee. That is real education
- Every father, every state, every guardian, every guru, everyone, relative, should educate his dependent in Krsna consciousness to give them chance to be liberated from this bondage of miserable condition of material life
- Every living entity who attains the human form of life can understand the importance of his position & thus become eligible to become a devotee of Lord Krsna. We take it for granted, therefore, that all humanity should be educated in Krsna consciousness
- Everyone has dormant love for Krsna, and by culture and education that has to be awakened. That is the purpose of this Krsna consciousness movement
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- I (Prabhupada) am very glad to learn that the children at Gurukula school are making good progress in their Krishna Consciousness education, that is very good news
- I am very glad to learn that the children at Gurukula school are making good progress in their Krishna Consciousness education, that is very good news
- I am very hopeful that some of our students can take up this responsibility and render the best service to humanity by educating people in Krsna consciousness
- I am very much anxious to open schools for educating children of responsible leaders in our Krishna Consciousness way of life, especially also in India
- I am very much pleased to see the atmosphere here. Education means Krsna consciousness. That is education
- If a child is trained properly in Krishna Consciousness, he will never go away. That means he must have two things, love and education
- If leaders & rich men spend fifty percent of their accumulated wealth mercifully for the misled people & educate them in KC, the knowledge of Bhagavatam, certainly the age of Kali will be defeated in its attempt to entrap the conditioned souls
- In our Krsna consciousness movement we are trying to give this education, a standard education, Srimad-Bhagavatam
- In spite of the material assets of janmaisvarya-sruta-sri (SB 1.8.26) birth in an aristocratic family with full opulence, wealth, education and beauty - he was very much aggrieved because in spite of having so many wives, he had no son
- It is my desire that every American boy and girl receive a Krsna Conscious education, so your program in the Buffalo area schools is very encouraging to me
- It is the duty of the elderly son, those who are advanced, not to kill the insufficient son, but to give them education of Krsna consciousness
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- One should surrender fully to the Lord, forgetting one's so-called material happiness, opulence and education, which are not at all useful for pleasing the Lord. The Lord is pleased only by the process of surrender unto Him
- One's longevity, opulence, beauty, education and whatever else one may possess as a result of pious activities cannot protect one if one commits an offense at the lotus feet of a Vaisnava
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- The basic principle of one's education should be Krsna consciousness, nothing else. Then life will be pleasing and successful, both in this world and in the next
- The character of a particular person develops when he follows the regulative principles in accordance with his birth, association and education
- The duration of life, so far as the body is concerned, may be taken; however one tries to keep it intact, no one can do it. But the spiritual education we receive in Krsna consciousness cannot be taken away by the sun. It becomes a solid asset
- The first twenty-five years are for student life. From age five to age twenty-five, one should be educated very nicely in Krsna consciousness
- The process of devotional service, of Krsna consciousness, is the king of all education and the king of all confidential knowledge. BG 1972 purports
- The Vedic civilization, however, is based on spiritual education, and spiritual education is the special basis on which Bhagavad-gita was spoken to Arjuna
- The world is most sorely in need of education in Krsna Consciousness, but due to the ignorance of the age they are not interested in knowledge of the self
- Their aim (Narada and the Kumaras) is that all the conditioned souls may be educated to revive their original consciousness, or Krsna consciousness, and thus gain relief from the miserable conditions of material life
- There are different grades of education. Now, what is the summum bonum, highest, topmost education? This topmost education is Krsna consciousness, topmost education. Raja-vidya
- There are many mercantile, scientific and other associations in human society to develop a particular type of education or consciousness, but there is no association which helps one to get free from all material association
- There are two kinds of children born of good fathers: one is educated in KC so that he can be delivered from the clutches of maya in that very life, & the other is a ray of the Supreme Personality of Godhead & teaches the world the ultimate goal of life
- There is no institution, no school, no college, no university where this education is given, that "What I am? Am I this body, or I am something else? No. I am something else." So this education can be given through this Krsna consciousness movement
- They (advanced men) want to be elevated to an eternal life of knowledge and bliss. As Krsna is always compassionate to the fallen souls, His servants, the devotees of Lord Krsna, are also interested in educating the entire populace in Krsna consciousness
- This is my obligation, to give them education in Krsna consciousness. That is the best service I am giving to the humanity. Why I have come to your country? I am old man. Just to fulfill this obligation
- This is the platform of unity: Krsna consciousness. This is the right education. Everything - all questions, all problems - can be solved by understanding this raja-vidya, the king of all knowledge
- This Krsna consciousness movement is giving, educating people how to become Krsna conscious, how to know the science of Krsna. Krsna-tattva-vetta
- Those interested in spiritual life should follow Prahlada Maharaja in rejecting the education of religion, economic development and sense gratification. One should be interested in spiritual education
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- We are trying our bit, this Krsna consciousness movement, to give education about this bhagavata-dharma and we are trying to present in so many languages. So we wish that you should cooperate, try to understand this philosophy
- We do not know when we shall die. Before the next death we must complete this Krsna consciousness education
- When the mind is educated in Krsna consciousness, or higher consciousness in the mode of goodness, one is transferred either to the upper, heavenly planets or to the spiritual world, the Vaikuntha planets
- Wherever there is human being, they require this education (of Krsna consciousness). And it is the India's duty. Because India has got the opportunity to be spiritually advanced by the grace of learned, saintly persons