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The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is primarily an educational institution dedicated to giving human society perfect, authoritative knowledge. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that mundane scientists, religionists, and conditioned souls cannot give real knowledge because they are subject to illusion, possess imperfect senses, and are prone to making mistakes. True knowledge, or veda, descends directly from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, and is distributed without alteration by bona fide spiritual masters and pure devotees. The highest welfare activity, known as para-upakāra, is not merely feeding the temporary material body, but giving the transcendental knowledge of the Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam to cure the root cause of suffering: ignorance. By receiving this perfect knowledge, the conditioned soul is freed from the cycle of birth and death and quickly reinstated in its eternal constitutional position. | |||
* '''The Imperfection of Mundane Knowledge''' Conditioned souls cannot give perfect knowledge because they are burdened by the four defects: imperfect senses, the tendency to be illusioned, the propensity to commit mistakes, and the cheating propensity. Mundane scientists rely on speculation and theories, which cannot provide the ultimate truth. | |||
* '''The Source of Perfect Knowledge''' True knowledge is not acquired through ascending research but is received deductively from the Supreme Lord. Kṛṣṇa gave this Vedic knowledge first to Lord Brahmā, and it is preserved perfectly in scriptures like the Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. | |||
* '''The Duty of the Spiritual Master and Sādhus''' A bona fide guru or sādhu is one who has fully assimilated the Vedic essence and dedicates his life to giving this light to others. Despite facing numerous dangers and inconveniences, pure devotees perfectly represent the Lord by distributing His knowledge without alteration. | |||
* '''The Ultimate Welfare Activity (Para-upakāra)''' Material suffering is a direct result of ignorance. Superficial solutions, like punishing a thief without reforming him, do not solve the root problem. The highest welfare activity is to give human society the real knowledge of its spiritual identity, thus permanently curing the disease of material existence. | |||
* Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: [[Vanipedia:Curing Material Ignorance by Giving the Real Knowledge of Kṛṣṇa|Curing Material Ignorance by Giving the Real Knowledge of Kṛṣṇa.]] | |||
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Theme Analysis
The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is primarily an educational institution dedicated to giving human society perfect, authoritative knowledge. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that mundane scientists, religionists, and conditioned souls cannot give real knowledge because they are subject to illusion, possess imperfect senses, and are prone to making mistakes. True knowledge, or veda, descends directly from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, and is distributed without alteration by bona fide spiritual masters and pure devotees. The highest welfare activity, known as para-upakāra, is not merely feeding the temporary material body, but giving the transcendental knowledge of the Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam to cure the root cause of suffering: ignorance. By receiving this perfect knowledge, the conditioned soul is freed from the cycle of birth and death and quickly reinstated in its eternal constitutional position.
- The Imperfection of Mundane Knowledge Conditioned souls cannot give perfect knowledge because they are burdened by the four defects: imperfect senses, the tendency to be illusioned, the propensity to commit mistakes, and the cheating propensity. Mundane scientists rely on speculation and theories, which cannot provide the ultimate truth.
- The Source of Perfect Knowledge True knowledge is not acquired through ascending research but is received deductively from the Supreme Lord. Kṛṣṇa gave this Vedic knowledge first to Lord Brahmā, and it is preserved perfectly in scriptures like the Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
- The Duty of the Spiritual Master and Sādhus A bona fide guru or sādhu is one who has fully assimilated the Vedic essence and dedicates his life to giving this light to others. Despite facing numerous dangers and inconveniences, pure devotees perfectly represent the Lord by distributing His knowledge without alteration.
- The Ultimate Welfare Activity (Para-upakāra) Material suffering is a direct result of ignorance. Superficial solutions, like punishing a thief without reforming him, do not solve the root problem. The highest welfare activity is to give human society the real knowledge of its spiritual identity, thus permanently curing the disease of material existence.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Curing Material Ignorance by Giving the Real Knowledge of Kṛṣṇa.
Pages in category "Giving Knowledge"
The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.
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- An exalted personality like Jada Bharata is as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead because he fully represents the Lord by giving knowledge to others
- Any religion which gives you knowledge of God and you understand what is relation with God, that is perfect religion. We have no quarrel
- At the present age, mostly the scientists, they cannot give us perfect knowledge, because there are so many "if's." They say, "It may be," "Perhaps," like that. But this is not perfect knowledge
- Author has given you some knowledge, so he has got some particular aim and objective. So why should you change that? You have no right to change that
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- Because women are supposed to be less intelligent, they should be given knowledge, and they should also follow this knowledge
- Bhagavata means in relationship with Bhagavan, Krsna. So these boys are engaged in reading Bhagavatam, in reading Bhagavad-gita and other literatures which gives them knowledge about the Supreme Personality of Godhead. And bhagavata means the devotee
- Brahma was the first created being. Who spoke to him? Since no one was there, who was the spiritual master to give knowledge
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- Government has got many departments - the criminal department and the educational department. Educational department is giving knowledge to the citizens, and the criminal department is punishing, chastising the citizen
- Guru means the teacher. So if the teacher does not give you real knowledge, then he is not teacher, he is cheater
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- I am so much encouraged by your determined efforts. Please increase (task of giving real knowledge, Krishna consciousness) more and more, and Krishna will help you
- I do not know a subject matter very clearly; still, I say something as authority. That is cheating. We should not cheat. If we want to give knowledge to the people, we must give perfect knowledge
- India's business is para-upakara. India's business is not exploitation. That is Indian. And para-upakara means not that daridra-narayana bhojana, no. Para-upakara means to give him knowledge, for want of which he is suffering
- Is it not a service to the humanity to give real knowledge? But the service to the body is not neglected. Just like we are giving this knowledge to the world, it does not mean that we are starving, or anyone who comes to us, he will starve
- It is necessary to select a person to whom we can surrender ourselves. Of course no one likes to surrender to anyone. We are puffed up with whatever knowledge we have, and our attitude is, - Oh, who can give me knowledge
- It is the guru's business to give light by knowledge. The guru has completely assimilated the Vedic essence of life
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- That (ignorance) we have to cure. That is the special advantage of human life. The dogs, the cats, they cannot be cured. They cannot be given the knowledge
- That is our basic principle of knowledge, that every one of us is defective, so you cannot give us complete knowledge; it is not possible. We must receive knowledge from the perfect without defects
- The human society requires this knowledge and we are trying to give this knowledge alone with our humble attempt, and these foreigners are helping with their pranair arthair dhiya vaca, by their life, by their money, by their intelligence, by their words
- The Vedic knowledge is given to everyone because Krsna is within everyone's heart (sarvasya caham hrdi sannivistah (BG 15.15)), but one must be qualified to receive that knowledge
- The Vedic literature gives the knowledge that can lead one to understand the Absolute Truth - Brahman, Paramatma or Bhagavan. Guru-kula, or the reformatory educational institution, should be used only to understand Vedic knowledge
- The whole world is suffering for want of knowledge. Therefore Krsna consciousness movement is giving actual knowledge of the living entity, vimarsanam. Vimarsana means that think over the matter, that "Why I am doing this?" This is called brahma-jijnasa
- The word brahma means "Vedic knowledge." Thus the Vedic knowledge was given first to Lord Brahma
- There are two things: sat and asat. Sat means what is eternal, perpetual - no beginning, no end. Sanatana. And asat means just the opposite: "which is temporary." So sastra means it must give you knowledge of the eternal world. That is sastra
- There is difference between false knowledge and authoritative knowledge. So far we are concerned at the present moment, whatever knowledge we are giving or accepting, they are more or less false knowledge. Not authoritative
- They are transmigrating from one life to another. There are 8,400,000 species of life. In this way, actually their existence is being spoiled. Therefore Krsna consciousness movement is to give them right knowledge, so that they may become happy
- They think that moon is the nearest planet, but we do not think like that. But still they are unable to give sufficient knowledge about the moon
- Thief comes out of the jail, and exactly after four days he's again put into the jail. This action and reaction - one has committed theft, and the reaction is he is put into the jail - this is not beneficial. Real is that thief must be given knowledge
- This knowledge by which we can gain release from suffering is possible in the human form of life, not in the animal form. To give us knowledge, to give us proper direction, there are scriptures written in various languages in all parts of the world
- This Krsna consciousness movement is directly giving people understanding of Krsna. We are giving knowledge of Krsna based on these authorized scriptures: Bhagavad-gita and the Vedas
- This Krsna consciousness movement is for giving perfect knowledge to the human society: what he is, what is God, what is this material world, why you have come here, why you have to undergo so much tribulations, miserable condition of life, why I die
- To learn how to control senses, that is brahmacari. Where is that civilization? So establish. Give them food. Give them shelter. Give them knowledge. Don't be entangled in vagina civilization. It is most abominable civilization, condemned civilization
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- We are not that simply we are giving knowledge, but we are giving, we are inviting everyone, "Come, live with us peacefully, take Krsna prasadam and be Krsna conscious." This is our movement
- We are so foolish that we do not take advantage of them (devotees of God and Bhagavad-gita). We do not take advantage of His devotee, who hankers to give this knowledge, sacrificing everything
- We have got so many literatures full of treasure house of knowledge. We have to distribute that. Not bluffing, showing magic or this or that, miracles. No. We are not this. It is a institution for giving knowledge to the human society
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- Your Lordship gives knowledge that is eternal, and the intelligent person receiving such knowledge is quickly situated in his original constitutional position
- Your senses are imperfect, you are cheating, you are illusioned and you commit mistake. How you can give perfect knowledge? Therefore we don't accept any knowledge from an imperfect personality