Category:Material Education
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that material education, when disconnected from spiritual understanding, does not elevate human consciousness but instead deepens forgetfulness of the self. Although it promises progress, refinement, and advancement, such education primarily strengthens bodily identification and attachment to sense gratification. By neglecting knowledge of the soul and the Supreme Lord, material education expands the influence of māyā and diverts human intelligence from its true purpose.
- Expansion of Illusion: Advancement of material education increases entanglement in māyā by reinforcing false identification with the body and material achievements.
- Godlessness as Knowledge: When education ignores the soul and God, even learned scholars propagate ignorance under the label of progress.
- Sense Gratification as the Goal: Material education trains the conditioned soul to refine eating, sleeping, mating, and defending rather than transcend them.
- Failure to Control the Mind: Accumulation of material qualifications such as wealth, beauty, and education does not bring self-mastery or peace.
- Spiritual Knowledge as the Missing Element: Without brahma-vidyā, material learning remains incomplete and ultimately harmful to human society.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Material Education and Forgetfulness of the Self.
Pages in category "Material Education"
The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.
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- Advancement of material education means advancement of the snares of the illusory energy of Krsna. Mayara vaibhava
- After writing this and thus accepting the real purport of the Gita, how can Dr. Radhakrishnan later state that Lord Krsna's body and soul are different? Such an idea must be a result of his materialistic education
- Anyone who has come to this material world, he is illusioned. But advancement of so-called material education means the increasing of the same illusory propaganda
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- Bhaktivinoda Thakura says, jada-vidya sab, mayara vaibhava, jibake koroye gadha (Kalyana-kalpa-taru). He has said like that, that so far advancement of material education means that so-called educated man is becoming more, more, more an ass
- By material association and education, we learn simply to concentrate on flimsy things, but yoga is the process of forgetting them altogether
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- Generally, the material opulences are good parentage, education, beauty and riches, but although a devotee of the Lord may possess all four of these material opulences, he is never carried away by the pride of possessing such distinctions
- Godless kings or heads of state, when puffed up by advancement of material wealth, education and increase of population, always make a show of military strength and give trouble to the innocent
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- If by the grace of the Lord we get such opulences as material wealth, fame, power, education and beauty, it is our duty to consider that they are all gifts of the Lord and must be used for His service, not for our sense enjoyment
- If one connects himself with Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Lord takes away all his miseries, and in the beginning the Lord also superficially appears to take away all his material possessions, reputation, education and beauty
- If there is any reputation within this material world, the cause of the reputation is Krsna. If there is any strength within this material world, the cause of such strength is Krsna
- 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
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- Mahad-gunah means the material acquisition, material education, material wealth, or so many material qualification. That will not help me to control my mind
- Material assets such as education, wealth, beauty and good parentage are undoubtedly nice, but when they decorate persons of a malicious nature, then they act adversely
- Material education aims at increasing the activities of material sense gratification. Beyond material sense gratification is another negative form of knowledge called brahma-vidya, or impersonal transcendental knowledge
- Material education is infected by the three modes of nature, but spiritual education, for which there is a great need in human society, is transcendental
- Material education means attachment education. Bhaktivinoda Thakura has said, yara vidya sa maya boyba: our attachment for this material world, it is maya, illusion. Maya-sukhaya bharam udvahato vimudhan (SB 7.9.43). Material happiness is made by maya
- Material education, wealth and power will not help one to control the mind
- Materialistic education expands the influence of maya. Such an education induces the conditioned soul to be increasingly attracted to materialistic life and to stray further and further away from liberation from unwanted miseries
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- One should not be proud of his material birth, material opulence, material education and beauty and with these things try to conquer the mind of an advanced student of Krsna consciousness
- 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 who is on the path of (material) progress, trying to improve himself with respectable parentage, great opulence, high education and bodily beauty, cannot approach You with sincere feeling
- One who possesses all these material qualities (prestigious position, material wealth, beauty, education and so on) is expected to become a devotee, and when he actually does, the qualities are properly utilized
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- So-called advancement of civilization means the living entity is always compared as an ass, mudha. So instead of becoming intelligent, by material education one becomes more and more first-class ass, jada-vidya saba mayara vaibhava tomara bhajane badha
- Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura said that materialistic knowledge is another expansion of the influence of Maya. The result of material education is that the living entity forgets his own identification
- Such a person (one who does not know the actual goal of life) wants to enjoy the material world by taking birth in a highly elevated family with the benefits of education, beauty and immense wealth, which in this material world are desirable
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- Tad-vijnanam means spiritual education. For material education there is no need of guru. You keep . . . Guru, of course required, but guru means to inquire about spiritual subject matter
- 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 highest standard of education is knowledge of the science of Krsna. The standard of material education is sense gratification, but the highest standard of spiritual education is knowledge of the science of Krsna
- The standard of material education is sense gratification, but the highest standard of spiritual education is knowledge of the science of Krsna
- There are two departmental educational policy; one departmental education is spiritual education, and the other educational system is material education. One who is highly elevated in material education, cannot understand about anything spiritual
- Those who are puffed up with material education, wealth, aristocracy and fruitive activity are very proud of possessing material things, and they often deride the devotees. Even if such people offer the Lord worship, the Lord never accepts them