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The real problem of life is to understand the self. But there is no educational system throughout the whole world what is the self, what is his need, how it is constituted, how it is working

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Everyone is becoming engineering, technologist or medical man or so many. But the real problem of life is to understand the self. But there is no educational system throughout the whole world what is the self, what is his need, how it is constituted, how it is working, so many things.

Those who are trying to understand what he is, what is his relation with God and how he should live, they are called brāhmaṇas. And those who are living like cats and dogs, simply eating, sleeping, mating and dying, so they are dying like cats and dogs.

So death is inevitable. That is also advised by Prahlāda Mahārāja in his instruction to his class fellows, kaumāra ācaret prājño dharmān bhāgavatān iha (SB 7.6.1).

"My dear friends, from this beginning of life—we are now five years old—from this life we should try to understand bhāgavata-dharma." Bhāgavata-dharma means to understand our relationship with the Supreme Lord. That is called bhāgavata-dharma. Mānuṣam adhruvam. Tad apy adhruvam. Although the life is temporary, but it is very suitable for self-realization. So therefore one should begin this process from childhood.

Just like modern education system, if children are given some playthings, engineering . . . I've seen in your country especially; he's given railway line and so many things. He can understand how railway system is working, or engineering, so that from the very beginning of his life he's getting idea and he may catch up some line of activities. Similarly, this Kṛṣṇa conscious education also should be given from the very beginning of life.

That is the mistake of the modern civilization. Everyone is becoming engineering, technologist or medical man or so many. But the real problem of life is to understand the self. But there is no educational system throughout the whole world what is the self, what is his need, how it is constituted, how it is working, so many things. In Boston, there was a Massachusetts Technological . . . you know that?

Devotee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Prabhupāda: Yes. So I explained there that, "Here is a nice technological institute, but where is your this technological department, to understand?" So the students very much appreciated it.

Factually, this is the defect. We know—this will be the beginning of Bhagavad-gītā—that there is something which minus, this body is useless. But nobody is trying to understand what is that something. There is no technological institute to understand what is that something. Is it not defective? And still, they are very much proud of advancement of education.

The real thing is missing. You have got all departments for comforts of this body, for maintaining this body, but the thing which minus this body, the body is useless, what about that thing? That is Bhagavad-gītā. That is Bhagavad-gītā. Bhagavad-gītā is teaching that technology.

You should try to understand this. Bhagavad-gītā is not technology for the external body. Bhagavad-gītā is the technology of the dehī, which is within the body, which is moving the body, which is keeping the body fit. This body is fit, very nice, very beautiful, very attractive. How long? So long the spirit soul is there.

Page Title:The real problem of life is to understand the self. But there is no educational system throughout the whole world what is the self, what is his need, how it is constituted, how it is working
Compiler:SharmisthaK
Created:2022-09-23, 03:52:01
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1