Material Education Increases Godlessness - Prabhupada 0189

700513 - Lecture ISO 09 - Los Angeles

In your country, your rich country, you got nice educational system, so many universities, but what class of men you are producing? The students are coming to become hippies. Why?

So leaders should think over it, that "What we are producing, in spite of so many educational institution?" That is hinted here, that because you are worshiping avidyā . . . that is not knowledge. Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has sung very nicely: jaḍa-vidyā saba māyāra vaibhava. Jaḍa-vidyā means this material education. He says they are expansion of this māyā. Jaḍa vidyā sa māyāra vaibhava, tomāra bhajane bādhā. The more we shall advance in this material education, the more we will be hampered to understand what is God. And at last, we shall declare, ""God is dead. I am God. You are God,"" this, all this nonsense.