Category:Giving Education
Theme Analysis
The category of Giving Education focuses on the responsibility of parents, teachers, and leaders to provide knowledge that transcends temporary material needs. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that while modern institutions focus on economic development and sense gratification, real education must address the transmigration of the soul and one's eternal relationship with God. Failure to give this spiritual training is described as spoiling the life of the dependent. True education, delivered by the brāhmaṇa class, aims to stop the cycle of birth and death and establish a complete, peaceful human society.
- The Responsibility of Guardians: It is the fundamental duty of fathers, mothers, and guardians to provide spiritual education. If they fail in giving education about Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the life of the child is considered spoiled, as they remain in ignorance of their true identity.
- Real Education vs Technical Training: Modern universities offer "technical education" or śilpa-vidyā, which only teaches one how to eat, sleep, and mate. Real education should be focused on the soul, teaching the living entity how to stop material tendencies and solve the ultimate problems of life.
- The Role of the Brāhmaṇa: According to the Vedic system, the brāhmaṇa is the natural teacher because they are trained in spiritual culture. Their duty is giving education and intelligence that leads to the understanding of the Supreme Absolute Truth.
- The Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Movement: This movement is described as a scientific and non-sectarian educational institution. Its purpose is giving education about bhāgavata-dharma to solve global problems and guide humanity back home, back to Godhead.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Giving Education to Solve the Problems of Life.
Pages in category "Giving Education"
The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total.
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- A child is born ignorant. If the father, mother, guardians do not give him education, then his life is spoiled. The child has no fault. It is the fault of the guardians
- A father gives education to his son to earning livelihood, gets him married, and settles him, but he knows that "This kind of business, earning money and marrying, begetting children, I have done, but I am not satisfied"
- After the father died, the nine stepbrothers of Jada Bharata, who considered Jada Bharata dull and brainless, abandoned the father's attempt to give Jada Bharata a complete education
- Anyone can take education as a brahmana or a ksatriya, as a vaisya. There is no... Vaisya doesn't require any education. Ksatriyas require little. Brahmana require. But that is free. Just find out a brahmana guru and he will give you free education
- At present everyone goes to school, and everyone is given the same type of education, although no one knows what the result will be. The result, however, is most unsatisfactory, as we have seen in the Western countries especially
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- Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, and the sastras say, that people in this age are so fallen. It is very difficult to raise them by properly giving education. They will not take education. They will not be able
- Children, as you teach them, they learn. They are innocent. Unfortunately, we do not give them training about Krsna consciousness. We give them education for sense gratification, how you can earn money, economic development
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- Education you cannot give. Education means it is practical practice. But to show something, that you can attract even without film. The yatra-party can do it
- Even if one does not read any philosophy, he is sexually inclined. Nobody is taught it in the schools and colleges. Everyone already knows how to do it. That is the general tendency. But education should be given to stop it. That is real education
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- I am already born foolish, and my education is given to make me more foolish
- I am traveling all over the world. There is not a single institution which is meant for giving education about the transmigration of the soul, how one can get better life
- If a man is suffering from the bodily ailments, if he is given some relief in the hospital, or if the society is not educated, give him education, this is all good work undoubtedly. But the ultimate good work is not known to them
- If anyone develops God consciousness, then all the good qualities will develop automatically. And you give him all kinds of education, but if he is godless, it is all useless. - That is compared with decorating the dead body
- If education is given according to the quality and position, then there will be complete system in the whole human society
- If you do not give proper education, then next body may be lower than human being
- If you, by innocence, put your hand on the fire, so fire will not excuse you. So innocence is no excuse. You have to be learned. Therefore we are here to give proper education to the people
- In all circumstances, the duty of the father is to give cultural education to his sons, who must later decide which way to go
- In our Krsna consciousness movement we are trying to give this education, a standard education, Srimad-Bhagavatam
- It (Krsna consciousness movement) is not a sectarian religious sentimental movement. It is a movement for giving real education, knowledge, to the people all over the world without any discrimination
- It is the duty of a father to educate his son in both religion and morality. If I do not give Him this education, how will He know of it?
- 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
- It's the duty of the guardians to give education to the dependents about the spiritual knowledge
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- Nobody is taught sex life in the school and the colleges, but everyone knows it, how to do it. So pravrttir esa bhutanam nivrttis tu maha-phalam (Manu-samhita). That's the general tendency. But education should be given to stop it. That is real education
- Now, especially in our country, we say it is Hindustan, Bharatavarsa. So we are not giving the bharatiya or Hindu spiritual cultural education. So that's a great loss of the secular state
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- So if the aristocratic family, they do not give education in spiritual line, they'll become all hippies, loafer, and drinking, and wasting father's money. They should be informed
- Sudra cannot give you any education. That is not possible. Education has to be taken from brahmana. That is Vedic system. Brahmana is the teacher because they are trained up
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- The brahmanas' duty is to give education, intelligence, up to the understanding of the Supreme Absolute Truth, Brahman
- The cats and dogs, they do not give any education, neither they know what is the meaning of education
- The father should give education at home. Leaders should give education in institution. Politicians should give education in their assemblies, congress. Guru should give education how to surrender to Krsna. The father & mother should educate
- The father's, mother's duty is the same, apavarga-vartmani. Apavarga-vartmani: to give education in such a way that no more pavarga. No more parisrama, no more phena, no more bhaya, no more vyarthata, no more marana. That is called apavarga-vardhanam
- The rascals, fools, if you give them good lessons, education, they will be angry. Prakopayati na samayati. Payah panam bhujanganam. The snake, if you give him nice milk and banana, the result will be he will increase his poison
- The Supreme Lord is more anxious to give us education and enlightenment than we are to receive them. He gives us His literature, His devotees and the parampara system, but it is up to us to take advantage of these
- 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
- These are the duties of the brahmana. To give proper education, he himself should be properly educated. That is called brahminical culture. And we offer our respect to Krsna because He gives the brahminical culture. Namo brahmanya-devaya
- These gopis, they were not supposed to be educated. Village girls - who is giving them education? They are not Ph.D.'s. But still, strong desire for Krsna. And that is called yesam nirbandhini matih
- They (brahmacaris) are given education and they become fully conversant with spiritual knowledge, they don't want to marry
- They're still more misled by giving them education that "You are born in this land. You must feel for your nation, you must act for your nation," or the so-called nationality is taught. But nobody is taught actually what he is
- 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 very important movement, that we are giving them hint and education how to go back to home, back to Godhead
- This Krsna consciousness movement is giving that education. Therefore it is not a sentimental so-called religious movement, it is a scientific movement of real education, to solve the problems of life
- This Krsna consciousness movement is meant for giving education to the people of this sankhya-yoga system or bhakti-yoga system, because it is the recommended process by authorities
- Those who are being trained up as brahmana and ksatriya, they should be given book education. Otherwise practical. You see how the things are being done. Bas
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- Unfortunately - we are traveling all over the world - 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
- Unfortunately at the present moment, in no university there is any department of knowledge where this education is given where there is life after death. I am traveling all over the world. There is no such department
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- We are going to give education how to become spiritually advanced. That is our purpose
- 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 have already discussed this point, that we must know the responsibility of our next life. Just like a child is given education for the next life, to become youthful, to get into higher education, admission
- We shall put forward so many false proprietors, false friends, false enjoyers, and they will fight one another. This is the situation of the world. If education is given and people take this knowledge (Krsna - ultimate purpose), there is immediately peace
- What university education? They give some technical education, that silpa-vidya, to earn money and eat and sleep and have sex life and die. This is the education
- When He was grown-up, His real father took Him charge, Vasudeva. He belonged to the ksatriya family. All other education was given: how to fight, how to rule, everything
- Why shouldn't this spiritual education be given to the American people in an organized way? The whole world is going down and becoming Godless