Now the incentive in modern society to become educated or to become engineer is money. What is the incentive in Vedic culture?

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Now the incentive in modern society to become educated or to become engineer is money. What is the incentive in Vedic culture

Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

There is no need of money. The brāhmaṇa teaches everything free of charge. There is no question of money.

Morning Walk -- October 16, 1975, Johannesburg:

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Now the incentive in modern society to become educated or to become engineer is money. What is the incentive in Vedic culture?

Prabhupāda: There is no need of money. The brāhmaṇa teaches everything free of charge. There is no question of money. Anyone can take education as a brāhmaṇa or a kṣatriya, as a vaiśya. There is no... Vaiśya doesn't require any education. Kṣatriyas require little. Brāhmaṇa require. But that is free. Just find out a brāhmaṇa guru and he will give you free education. That's all. This is society. Now, as soon as... At the present moment, as soon as one wants to be educated, he requires money. But in the Vedic society there is no question of money. Education free.