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

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"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"

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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.

701102 - Lecture - Bombay:

When one is actually paṇḍita, learned, he becomes sama-darśī. Vidyā-vinaya-sampanne: one learned brahmin, gentle brahmin, vidyā dadāti namratā. 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. So vidyā-vinaya-sampanne gavi hastini. And one side, the brāhmin with gentle behavior, learned scholarship, and the other side, an animal, say, a cow or a dog or an elephant, and another side the caṇḍāla, the lowest of the human society.

According to Vedic civilization, the dog-eaters are called caṇḍāla. Just like in Hindu society, a person is not permitted to eat cow's flesh. Even in human society, although they are eating different types of flesh, one is considered abominable than the other. The cow-eaters are taken as abominable than the goat-eaters. And the dog-eaters are accepted as abominable than the goat-eaters. So although they are eating flesh, they have got some distinction. That is material.

But according to Vaiṣṇava philosophy, because a Vaiṣṇava sees every living entity—not only human being, not only animals, birds and beasts, anyone—paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ (BG 5.18). If one is actually learned and advanced, he sees all living entities on the equal status because . . . the reason is that a learned Vaiṣṇava . . . Vaiṣṇava, brāhmin-vaiṣṇava, brāhmin-paṇḍita, these are the designations. A brāhmin cannot be illiterate or rascal. And after becoming brāhmin, one has to become Vaiṣṇava. brāhmin, generally, brahma jānātīti brāhmin: one who knows brahma, brahma-bhūtaḥ.

At the present moment we are under the bodily concept of life, every one of us. "I am Indian," "I am American," "I am brāhmin," "I am kṣatriya," "I am sannyāsī," "I am brahmacārī," "I am gṛhastha . . ." There are so many designations. So these designations are pertaining to the body and mind. But when you transcend the bodily and the mental concept of life, then you can become Vaiṣṇava.