Prabhupada, Bhagavad-gita 2.1-10, Los Angeles, November 25, 1968: […] 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 Krishna 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…
Devotee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Prabhupada: You know that? 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-gita, 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-gita. That is Bhagavad-gita. Bhagavad-gita is teaching that technology. You should try to understand this Bhagavad-gita is not technology for the external body. Bhagavad-gita is the technology of the dehi 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. As soon as the spirit soul is off, immediately it begins to decompose. There may be a nice, beautiful young girl, everyone is hankering after her, but as soon as the spirit soul is gone, nobody will like to accept it. Immediately it becomes useless. So nobody is very serious what is that thing? That is Bhagavad-gita. Yes.
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