Category:Educational Institutions
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda offers a profound and uncompromising critique of modern educational institutions. He points out a glaring deficiency in global academia: despite the existence of huge universities and countless departments of knowledge dedicated to technology and material science, there is not a single institution that teaches the science of the spirit soul. Because modern education completely ignores the fundamental questions of life—"Who am I?" and "What is God?"—Śrīla Prabhupāda declares these institutions to be in total darkness, led by "blind" professors who are simply misleading the youth. The predictable result of this godless education is a frustrated, confused younger generation prone to becoming hippies or even committing suicide. According to Vedic standards, an institution that only teaches technology is merely producing śūdras (laborers), not actual scholars (paṇḍitas).
To rectify this disastrous situation, Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes the urgent need for the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement to establish its own educational institutions. These schools, functioning as traditional guru-kulas, must be designed to teach the Absolute Truth and train students in the standard brahminical culture and the divisions of the varṇāśrama system. By starting this spiritual education from the age of five, children can be saved from the slaughterhouses of modern academia and properly prepared for their ultimate destination in the next life.
Furthermore, Śrīla Prabhupāda strictly delineates the boundaries of spiritual charity. He warns that while opening mundane educational institutions may be considered a pious philanthropic activity by the general public, it remains a material endeavor bound by the laws of karma. Therefore, a sannyāsī or a pure devotee should never become distracted by such mundane philanthropic work. Their sole duty is to establish institutions that propagate pure Kṛṣṇa consciousness, as this is the only education that can permanently solve the problems of human existence.
- The Blind Universities: Modern educational institutions are in total darkness because they completely ignore the science of the spirit soul and the existence of God.
- The Result of Godless Education: Because universities only teach technology (the work of śūdras), the younger generation is left frustrated, confused, and spiritually bankrupt.
- The Need for Guru-kula: The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement must establish ideal educational institutions to train children in brahminical culture and the science of the Absolute Truth.
- The Trap of Philanthropy: Opening mundane educational institutions is a karmic, material activity; sannyāsīs and devotees must focus exclusively on propagating spiritual education.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Educational Institutions - From Modern Universities to Guru-kula.
Pages in category "Educational Institutions"
The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total.
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- A regular educational institution should be there where proper training of brahmana, proper training of ksatriya, vaisya, must be given. These four divisions must remain there
- Actual knowledge means to understand what is the spirit soul, what is its nature, what is its necessity, how it is living, what is the ultimate goal. So many things are there. But unfortunately, there is no educational institution
- All the universities and educational institutions are in darkness and still they are very much proud of advancement of knowledge. This we shall challenge everywhere and come out victorious
- Although a philanthropist's opening an educational institution may be pious activity, it comes under the laws of karma, whereas constructing a temple for Visnu is devotional service
- Although there is advancement of learning, many universities and educational institutions, but nowhere this subject matter is discussed or taught, "What I am"
- At the present moment there is a movement amongst the younger section to commit suicide. Why? Why younger section are feeling such frustration and confused in spite of so much educational institution?
- At the present time there are many educational institutions for training and technology, but such knowledge has nothing to do with understanding of the Absolute Truth
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- He (the impersonalist) comes down to open hospitals and educational institutions, feed poor men and perform similar materialistic activities, which the impersonalist thinks are more precious than serving the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- Human life is so important. So many things are to be learned, neither in the school, college, educational institution, society, nothing of the sort
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- I am also hoping that you will be able to print our books in that part of the world in the local languages. I think there is a Dai Nippon branch in Jakarta. It is a great service to sell our books to educational institutions
- I say that there must be educational institution for training brahmana, ksatriya especially
- If you can develop such an institution for future children of the society, or outside the society, it will be great service for the humanity. I am sure Krishna will give you more and more intelligence in this matter, if you seriously think
- If you enter into any educational institution, if you don't surrender yourself to the rules and regulation of the institution, how you can get advantage of the knowledge imparted by the institution?
- In my country, India, I was also a student of Gandhi. In 1920 I joined the noncooperation movement and gave up my education, because Gandhi's program was to boycott the British educational institution
- In the university or any educational institution, there is no department of knowledge to find out what is that thing which is entrapped within this body. We get this information from Bhagavad-gita: dehinah asmin dehe
- In today's educational institutions, who is teaching this tapasya? Where is the school or college? The students are even smoking in front of their teacher, and it is tolerated. No offense. What can you expect from such students
- It is a great service to sell our books to educational institutions. The more you do this, the more you become recognized by Krishna
- It is necessary for the leaders of the Krsna consciousness movement to start educational institutions in different parts of the world to train children, starting at the age of five years. Thus such children will not become hippies or spoiled children
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- Just like in a educational institution there is tenth class, eighth class, fifth class, sixth class. And with the yoga, it is just like a staircase or a lift. So there are different stages of perfection
- Just like in a educational institution there's tenth class, eighth class, fifth class, sixth class. & with the yoga, it's just like a staircase or lift. So there are different stages of perfection. The highest perfection is who's always thinking of Krsna
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- The foolish conditioned soul may think that he is offering charity by opening hospitals for material benefit or by opening an educational institution for material education
- The idea is that when we open our educational institute, we will require some dedicated monks, just like Christian Fathers, who have no connection with women. In that case, we can start a theological school
- The modern educational institutions are different grades of slaughter houses. If you can open an ideal institution for the future children of our associates, it will be a great service
- The United States has vast educational institutions where everyone is allowed to receive an education, but the result is that most students become like hippies
- 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
- There are big, big institutions for technology, how a motorcar can move, how aeroplane can move. So many machinery they're manufacturing. But there is no educational institution how the mover, the spirit soul, is moving
- There are so many departments of knowledge all over the world and many huge universities, but there is, unfortunately, no university or educational institution where the science of the spirit soul is instructed. BG 1972 purports
- There are so many universities, educational institution, big, big professors, scientists, all rascals. All rascals, we declare. Let them come and argue with us. All rascals
- There are so many universities, so many educational institutions, but they cannot say exactly how many varieties of life are there. They cannot say. Their education is not perfect
- There is no educational institution all over the world to discuss this subject matter, how God is great, omnipotent, how I am servant of God. But when we forget our relationship with God, we become subjected to the threefold miseries of material existence
- There is no educational institution where real ideal Brahmanas are educated according to Srimad-Bhagavatam brahminical culture
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- We should take standard sastra and follow and establish educational institution to train them. Otherwise, simply by crying in the wilderness, what will be the result
- Why there are so many planets. Why some of them are demigods and some of them are human beings, some of them are animals. It is a great science. But there is not cultivation of this knowledge in the modern universities or educational institution