Category:Our Education (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
The category "Our Education (Disciples of SP)" highlights how Śrīla Prabhupāda's disciples receive true education through spiritual training and devotion rather than merely worldly learning. Real education is measured by the development of character, understanding of Krishna Consciousness, and ability to serve and preach, rather than formal degrees or material knowledge. This education shapes disciples to act as responsible, knowledgeable, and devoted participants in spreading Krishna Consciousness worldwide.
- Spiritual Priority over Material Learning: Education is considered successful when it cultivates the understanding of atma, Krishna, and devotional service. Worldly education is secondary to spiritual advancement.
- Gurukula Training: The Gurukula system ensures children and disciples are educated in self-control, moral character, and Krishna Consciousness from an early age, integrating practical and spiritual lessons.
- Education as Service: Devotees are encouraged to apply their worldly knowledge, talents, and education for Krishna’s service and the betterment of society.
- Inclusivity and Access: Spiritual education in Krishna Consciousness is accessible to all, regardless of prior academic background, emphasizing faith, surrender, and engagement in devotional service.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Disciples Education in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.
Pages in category "Our Education (Disciples of SP)"
The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total.
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- Because the devotees have given up everything to serve Krishna. Money, jobs, reputation, wealth, big educations, everything. Their lackings have become transcendental because, despite everything they may do, their topmost intention is to serve Krishna
- By the grace of Krsna you have got a position in the education field, doctor of chemistry. When you will present our philosophy the educated circle will have to listen
- By your education you just describe the quality, the greatness of the Lord, yad-uttamasloka-gunanuvarnanam and that is the perfection of your education
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- Easiest way to please Krsna... You don't require much money, much education, and nothing of the sort. Simply you require your heart
- Educated and understanding devotee
- Education means one becomes gentle, sober, cool-headed. Therefore, it is said, vidya-vinaya-sampanne. When one is learned, advanced in education, he must be very gentle, not haughty
- Education of Krsna consciousness should be given from the very childhood, kaumara. Kaumara means from the age of fifth year up to the tenth year. This is called kaumara age
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- I am pleased to learn however that the nice girl who was at the Vyas Puja ceremony is now coming more often. Any person who becomes interested, try to educate him or her rightly. Everything depends on preaching
- I am very glad to hear that you are settling into some steady service. Krishna is sending us so many children and they must be nicely guided and educated so that they can grow up to become first-class Vaisnavas
- I shall be very glad to accept an educated and intelligent disciple like you, but first of all we must meet and you should know whether you can accept me as your Spiritual Master, or I can accept you as my disciple
- If we become simply engaged in His preaching work, trying with whatever talent or education or experience or material advantages we have got, to spread Krishna Consciousness message all over the world. That is best friend of Krishna
- If we want perfect education then we must follow the principle of Bhagavad gita. Such education will help the whole human society. In all different fields of activity, social, political, religious, cultural, economic and so on
- If you adulterate nonsensically like a rascal, then you cannot become a spiritual master. If you simply follow what Krsna has spoken, then you become spiritual master. Very simple thing. It doesn't require education
- If you still cannot understand what is my instruction, then how can I help you? New students may say like that. You are intelligent, educated, old student. If you say...
- If you work in this way to convince the intelligent class of men, that will be very great service and also the proper use of your educational training
- In the beginning if we start a varnasrama college to teach internationally students from all over the world to learn to be educated as brahmanas, as Ksatriyas, as vaisyas, as sudras, by quality and work, that will be the basic principle of KC
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- Our gurukula means how to teach them to become self-controlled. That is first business. This literary education secondary, grammar secondary. The first necessity is how to create them santa, danta, self-controlled
- Our these students, they are being educated how to think of Krsna always, twenty-four hours, without any stop. And that is first-class yoga
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- Take the children to the temple every day and bring them up in Krishna Consciousness, and when they are old enough you may send them to our new school in Dallas. There is no question of losing father, now they shall have dozens of fathers and mothers
- Temple means spiritual educational shelter. People should come, they should learn what is spiritual life, what is God, what is my relationship with. That is temple
- The Gurukula standard should be free education, boarding, and lodging. People shall voluntarily contribute as far as possible. That should be introduced
- The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) has decided to introduce the gurukula system of education for the proper training of young boys in the traditional gurukula way laid down in the Srimad-Bhagavatam
- The mass of people should be educated. Just like we are educating, "No meat-eating." So automatically the meat-selling, slaughterhouse will be stopped
- The real business is that you produce enough food grains, as much as possible, and you eat and distribute. That's all. This is business. He does not require any so high technical education. Anyone can till the ground and grow food. Is it difficult?
- The youths who joined this movement were not very advanced as far as purity is concerned, nor were they very well educated in Vedic knowledge, but because they were not offenders, they could accept the importance of the Hare Krsna movement
- There is the spiritual spark who is the proprietor of the body. This is the beginning of spiritual education. What is, the scientists cannot imagine, or they have no idea, from there we begin our education in spiritual life, beyond their jurisdiction
- They (these European and Americans) are pure devotees. They have no other business. They have sacrificed everything. They are coming from rich family, rich nation, educated, everything. There is no scarcity in their country
- 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 very important movement - important in this sense, that we are educating people without any discrimination about Krsna, what is Krsna
- Those who are less educated, not very much expert in preaching, they must be acting as ksatriya or vaisya, or as sudra
- Throughout the whole world there is no institution to impart education in the matter of spiritual understanding. So we are going to open a big center in Mayapur where this education will be internationally imparted
- To take care of the children, to educate them, that will depend on their parents. Now our Pradyumna was complaining that in the Gurukula, his child was not educated to count one, two, three, four. So I have told him that "You educate your child"
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- We are educating our students to practice how to revive his old . . . the eternal constitutional position to serve the Lord. This is our practice
- We are not simply supplying food. Anyone who is coming, he is getting spiritual education. Not that it is a free hotel
- We are simple, because we are not very educated; but we take the words of Krsna. Krsna says that only these classes of men (do not surrender). What? Duskrtinah
- We are spending at the present moment, monthly, seventy thousand dollars. In Indian calculation, it is seven lakhs of rupees. So everything required. We have to maintain establishment, we have to feed them, we have to educate them, we have to dress them
- We are trying to educate people to understand the value of life, the value of spiritual life especially, Bhagavata
- We have got enough of a university educational program in our Krishna Consciousness movement
- We must be educated how to control the senses, how to control the senses. Therefore while eating, we are reminded that this eating is... If you do not take it as prasadam, then eating is sense enjoyment
- Without education nobody has any social position and all our students in Krishna Consciousness are expected to be preachers
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- You are an educated and understanding devotee of Lord Krishna. Now Krishna will see your sincere cooperative efforts and He will provide all necessary facilities for continued growth of our educational center
- Your education is to be found in our books, the material education is finished
- Your foremost duty is to abide by the will of your husband. Your husband is not an ordinary boy-he is educated, intelligent, sober, and a devotee of Lord Krsna. Therefore, whatever he plans, you should follow
- Your parents desire that you become educated also, although they do now know that someone who is a devotee is best educated