Why Krishna Conscious Education is greater than Material Education?
Krishna Consciousness Is All-auspicious! This is one of the Six Characteristics of Pure Devotional service that can be READ HERE!
What is called auspiciousness?
Srila Rupa Gosvami has given a definition of auspiciousness.
(NINE STAGES OF BHAKTI YOGA (ADVANCEMENT IN DEVOTION) EXPLAINED! READ HERE!)
He says that actual auspiciousness means the welfare activities for ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD.
(Bad and sinful qualities are inauspicious. So, we need a powerful auspicious cleaner that can drive out the bad qualities, ie, inauspiciousness to reform others that purity the souls.)
At the present moment groups of people are engaged in welfare activities in terms of society, community or nation.
There is even an attempt in the form of the United Nations for world-help activity. But due to the shortcomings of limited national activities, such a general mass welfare program for the whole world is not practically possible.
Padma Purana States:
(SYMPTOMS OF PURE AND SURRENDERED DEVOTEES! READ HERE!)
“A person who is engaged in devotional service in full Krsna consciousness is to be understood to be doing the best service to the whole world and to be pleasing everyone in the world. In addition to human society, he is pleasing even the trees and animals, because they also become attracted by such a movement.”
A practical example of this was shown by Lord Caitanya when He was traveling through the forests of Jharikhanda in central India for spreading His Sankirtana movement.
The tigers, the elephants, the deer and all the other wild animals joined Him and were participating, in their own ways, by dancing and chanting Hare Krsna.
Furthermore, a person engaged in Krsna consciousness, acting in devotional service, can develop all the good qualities that are generally found in the demigods.
(64 TRANSCENDENTAL QUALITIES OF LORD KRISHNA EXPLAINED! READ HERE!)
It is said by Sukadeva Gosvami in Srimad-Bhagavatam (5-18-12):
“My dear King, persons who have unflinching faith in Krsna and are without any duplicity can develop all the good qualities of the demigods. On account of a devotee’s high grade of Krsna consciousness, even the demigods like to live with him, and therefore it can be understood that the qualities of the demigods have developed within his body.”
On the other hand, a person who is not in Krsna consciousness has no good qualities. He may be highly educated from the academic point of view, but in the actual field of his activities he can be seen to be better than the animals.
Eventhough a person is highly educated academically, if he cannot go beyond the sphere of mental activities, then he is sure to perform only material activities and thus remain impure.
There are so many persons in the modern world who have been highly educated in the materialistic universities, but it is seen that they cannot take up the movement of Krsna consciousness and develop the high qualities of the demigods.
(QUALITIES OF A PURE DEVOTEE OF KRISHNA! READ HERE!)
WHY MATERIAL EDUCATION IS NOT SUPERIOR?
Yes, Krishna Conscious Education is greater than Material Education. Let us read further:
For example, a Krsna conscious boy, even if he is not very well educated by the university standard, can immediately give up all illicit sex life, gambling, meat-eating and intoxication.
Whereas those who are not in Krsna consciousness, although very highly educated, are often drunkards, meat-eaters, sexmongers and gamblers.
These are practical proofs of how a Krsna conscious person becomes highly developed in good qualities, whereas a person who is not in Krsna consciousness cannot do so.
We experience that even a young boy in Krsna consciousness is unattached to cinemas, nightclubs, naked dance shows, restaurants, liquor shops, etc. He becomes completely freed. He saves his valuable time from being extravagantly spent in the way of smoking, drinking, attending the theater and dancing.
One who is not in Krsna consciousness usually cannot sit silently even for half an hour. The yoga system teaches that if you become silent you will realize that you are God. This system may be all right for materialistic persons, but how long will they be able to keep themselves silent? Artificially, they may sit down for so-called meditation, but immediately after their yogic performance they will engage themselves again in such activities as illicit sex life, gambling, meat-eating and many other nonsensical things.
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But a Krsna conscious person gradually elevates himself without endeavoring for this so-called silent meditation.
Simply because he is engaged in Krsna consciousness, he automatically gives up all this nonsense and develops a high character.
One develops the highest character by becoming a pure devotee of Krsna.
The conclusion is that no one can truly have any good qualities if he is lacking Krsna consciousness.
This is the reason to consider that Krishna Consciousness Is All-auspicious and hence Krishna Conscious Education is greater than Material Education?.
OTHER FIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF PURE DEVOTIONAL SERVICE ARE:
How Devotional Service or Bhakti relieves from karma & material distress? READ HERE!
Why the Only way to get Real Happiness is Krishna Consciousness? READ HERE!
Why Pure Devotional Service is Rare to achieve? READ HERE!
MUKTI or MOKSHA or DEVOTIONAL SERVICE – WHAT IS THE TARGET OF DEVOTEES? READ HERE!
Why Krishna is attracted by Pure Devotional service only? READ HERE!