Category:Real Education
Theme Analysis
This category emphasizes Śrīla Prabhupāda’s vision of real education, which goes beyond technical skills and academic learning. True education cultivates self-realization, spiritual intelligence, and Kṛṣṇa consciousness. It enables individuals to understand the soul, control the mind and senses, and navigate life with awareness of eternal values, distinguishing it from ordinary education focused solely on material gain or sensory knowledge.
- Self-Realization and Spiritual Intelligence: Real education guides one to understand the soul, its distinction from the material body, and the ultimate goal of returning to Godhead.
- Purpose Beyond Material Knowledge: Ordinary learning may teach technical skills or worldly knowledge, but true education addresses the purpose of life, the nature of happiness, and the cessation of material miseries.
- Practical Spiritual Life: Real education includes developing character, self-control, and Kṛṣṇa consciousness, ensuring knowledge is applied in a way that benefits oneself and society.
- Guidance from Authorities and Scriptures: Education is best received under the direction of a competent guru and through scriptural study, enabling understanding beyond mere sensory information.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Understanding True Education in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.
Pages in category "Real Education"
The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total.
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- A dog cannot be educated to understand God but a man can be. So if this human life is misused in the matter of animal propensities then it is a great loss. His propensities for understanding God should be aroused that is real education
- Above the senses is the mind, and above the mind is the intelligence, and above the intelligence is the soul. Thus the aim of real education should be self-realization, realization of the spiritual values of the soul
- Actually we want happiness, blissful life. That is not possible in the material world. That is in the spiritual world. That is the aim. So every human being should be given chance. That is real education. That is called samskara
- After giving up this body, no more acceptance of this material body. That is real education. And Bhagavata says, pita na sa syaj janani na sa syat, gurur na sa syat, na mocayed yah samupeta-mrtyum
- As a Christian you understand God is great, "Two plus two," but how He is great, that you have to learn in the Vedas. That is real education. Because you do not know how He is great, therefore you do so many sinful activities
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- Electrician comes - suppose the power has failed, and he manipulates and brings the power - that is technical education. But real education is different. That is to understand the atma-tattvam
- 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 would be very happy to see you living in the temple, following all of our principles of pure life and becoming an expert scholar in Vedic knowledge, through studying my books diligently. This is real education
- If our education is meant for simply eating, sleeping, mating and defending, then what is the difference? That is not education. Real education is to understand what you are. That is real education. Atma-jnana
- If the educational system simply teaches these processes, it does not deserve the name of education. Real education enables us to understand what we are
- In the Vedanta-sutra it is inquired, athato brahma jijnasa. What is Brahman? This human life is meant for understanding Brahman. Aham brahmasmi. This is real education
- 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
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- Only the devotees of the Lord, headed by such great personalities as Prahlada Maharaja and Narada Muni, are interested in the real education of spiritual life
- Our aim should be to go there (spiritual world), and every human being should be given the chance. That is real education. That is called samskara, the process of purification
- Our real business, real education, is to understand, "What I am? I am not this body." But that education is lacking. So our main business is to understand that - I am not this body, and the bodily pains and pleasure, they are due to the change of season
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- Real education is brahma-jijnasa, athato brahma jijnasa. That is real education. What I am, that is brahma-jijnasa. Aham brahmasmi. When he comes to the conclusion that he is not this body, he is spirit soul, that is real education
- Real education is brahma-vidya. Athato brahma jijnasa - this is education. So that is now given up throughout the whole world. Nobody is interested in Brahman; they are simply interested in sense gratification
- Real education is different: that one must know his own position and act accordingly. That you can get from Vedic knowledge
- Real education is how to solve the problems of life - birth, death, old age - and how to go back to home, back to . . . that is education. This is not education. This is simply waste of time
- Real education is that which makes people Krsna conscious so that they will properly utilize the resources of the earth and stop creating disturbances. It is not possible to solve problems by passing resolutions in the United Nations
- Real education is to understand oneself, self-realization, and with that purpose one should make progress in Krsna consciousness, that beginning with sravanam
- Real education is, first of all, you must know what you are. You are this body or something else than the body
- Real education means that he is self-controlled - controlling the mind, controlling the senses, truthful. He will speak truth in any circumstances. Even to his enemy he will speak the truth
- Real education means to understand God. Vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah (BG 15.15). If one does not understand what is God, his education is useless; it has no meaning. What is that education
- Real education this: just like you are doing, all rising early in the morning, mangala-aratrika, kirtana, and then . . . these regulative principles, this is real education. It does not require any academic education. It is simply practice
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- The aim of real education should be self-realization, realization of the spiritual values of the soul. Any education which does not lead to such realization must be considered avidya, or nescience
- The body has changed. The circumstance has changed. This is the real education, that we are changing body, & according to our bodily situation we are acting differently. That they do not understand. There is no school, college or education about the soul
- The real education is life. The gurukula means it is a way of life training. It is said that brahmacari gurukule vasan danta. This is the way of life: how to learn controlling the senses
- The real education to stop this disturbance is to make people Krsna conscious, God conscious. Then all problems will be solved. Otherwise, by passing resolution in the United Nation it is not possible
- The soul is suffering, and it is to our benefit to rescue him from these material clutches. This is real education. To receive this education, one has to approach a proper guru
- They are not educated themselves, but their education is by hearing from the authority. Iti susruma. This is real education. Therefore Vedas' another name is sruti. Sruti means the knowledge which you receive by hearing
- This is my mission, to educate people to understand himself. They are under this misconception that, "Every one of us, we are this body." That is misconception. You must know who is within the body. That is real education
- This is real education, that "You are thinking on terms of the body; therefore it is not very important subject matter." Real subject matter - what will happen to the soul - that is real, important
- This is real education. Vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah (BG 15.15). That is the Vedic civilization - to understand Krsna
- 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
- Those who are sinful, rascals, lowest of the mankind. Such people do not recognize God. Mudhas. "No, they are so educated." No, that education means false education. Real education is taken away by maya
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- We are going to learn technology. That is our misfortune. Technology is silpa-karma. Just like an artistic man - that is not real education. Real education is how to solve the problem of life, janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi-duhkha-dosanudarsanam
- We have to prepare where we want to go. That is real education. Either by the yogic principle or by cultivation of knowledge or by this devotional service, the whole idea is how to transfer oneself to the better condition of life
- We want to see all living entities as parts and parcels of Krishna without giving any consideration to outer skin, and that is real education
- When Sanatana Gosvami left his government post and came to Caitanya Mahaprabhu for the first time, he asked the Lord, "What is education?" Although Sanatana Gosvami knew a number of languages, including Sanskrit, he still inquired about real education
- Why we are meeting so many problems? This is due to this body. This is due to this body. Therefore the real culture is, real education is, how to stop this repetition of body