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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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The so-called modern scientist, they are simply correcting their mistake. Therefore they have no real knowledge. Nobody can have real knowledge, because we are imperfect. Our senses are imperfect. That is our defect in the conditioned life. We have got four defects: we commit mistake, we become illusioned, our senses are imperfect and we cheat.
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[[Vanisource:731222 - Lecture SB 01.15.44 - Los Angeles|731222 - Lecture SB 01.15.44 - Los Angeles]]:
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By material opulence, one does not become rich. He is animal. By material opulence, one may be polished animal, but he is an animal. One who is spiritually advanced, he is actually in knowledge. Because basic principle is spirit. Without spiritual knowledge, anything, any so-called knowledge, advancement of knowledge, is simply mistake, mistake. Just like if you, in calculating one mathematical sum, if you commit mistake anywhere, the whole thing is spoiled. Whole thing is spoiled. You go on, you are making progress, but real mistake was there; it will never carry. The balance, it will not come into being.

So the real mistake they are committing: ''dehātma-buddhi'', this body as self. That is the basic mistake of all education. ''Yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke'' ([[vanisource:SB 10.84.13|SB 10.84.13]]). Anyone who has accepted this body as self, ''yasya ātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke'' . . . this is a bag of three elements: ''kapha, pitta, vāyu.'' And on this basis, ''sva-dhīḥ kalatrādiṣu . . . sva-dhīḥ. Sva-dhīḥ'' means thinking, "My own men." ''Kalatrādiṣu. Kalatra'' means wife, and through wife, children, then other relationship. ''Sva-dhīḥ kalatrādiṣu bhauma ijya-dhīḥ''. And the land in which one is born, that is worshipable. Nowadays nationalism. Nationalism means the land. In so many ways the whole basic principle of education is wrong. Therefore such persons who are making so-called progress on the basic principle of mistake, so ''parābhavas tāvat'', they are simply being defeated, because the basic principle is wrong. ''Parābhavas tāvad abodha-jāto yāvan na jijñāsata ātma-tattvam. Ātma-tattvam'', spirit, spiritual knowledge, one who hasn't got, so whatever they are doing in the name of progress, they are all being defeated. That's all. It will never be successful. They will never be happy. There will be no peace and prosperity in the world, because the basic principle is wrong.

So here it is said, ''mahātmā, gata-pūrvāṁ mahātmabhiḥ''. We have to follow great personalities for advancement of knowledge. Actually we do. We accept authority, go to school, college, to learn something from the teacher, professor. But unfortunately, the teachers, professors, they are all rascals. Therefore we do not get proper education. Wrongly directed. They are changing. Changing is not knowledge. That is not knowledge. Just yesterday we were talking some theosophist: he is changing his view. Formerly it was right; now it is wrong. That is not knowledge. Knowledge means what you accept as right, it must be accepted perpetually right. That is knowledge. That is knowledge.

Just like our principle. Kṛṣṇa says that, "I am the Supreme," five thousand years ago. So Arjuna, who heard from Kṛṣṇa, he also said, ''paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma pavitraṁ paramaṁ bhavān'' ([[vanisource:BG 10.12-13 (1972)|BG 10.12]]). He accepted. I am speaking of five thousand years. Otherwise perpetually. ''Imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān aham avyayam'' ([[vanisource:BG 4.1 (1972)|BG 4.1]]). Long, long ago, before speaking to Arjuna, this ''Bhagavad-gītā'' was spoken to the sun-god, forty millions of years ago. The same principle, in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'', "I am speaking to you the same principle." Not that, "Forty millions of years have passed, so things have changed." No. Nothing has changed. The sun forty millions of years ago used to rise from the eastern side. Forty or trillions of years. Still it is rising from the east. Can you make any new thing, "Let it be . . . let the sun rise from the west?" No. That is not possible.

So knowledge means without any mistake. Anything without any mistake, that is perpetually right. And anything based on mistaken idea, that will change. You have to correct the mistake. The so-called modern scientist, they are simply correcting their mistake. Therefore they have no real knowledge. Nobody can have real knowledge, because we are imperfect. Our senses are imperfect. That is our defect in the conditioned life. We have got four defects: we commit mistake, we become illusioned, our senses are imperfect and we cheat. Because our knowledge is imperfect, still, we take the position of teacher; therefore we are cheater—not teacher, but cheater. So the teacher society nowadays is the cheater society. And this modern world is a society of the cheater and the cheated. That's all. Somebody is cheating and somebody is being cheated. This is going on.