Using material knowledge to serve Srila Prabhupada

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> > > Nice analogy, if the terms are all unrelated.

> > > Ok, now back to the topic under discussion. Prove that it can be

> > > applied to show how "a sincere Vaishnava on the path of transcendental

> > > knowledge" is not mutually exclusive (as you claim) with "so-called

> > > education of the demoniac society."

> >

> > Certainly. For instance, there is no example of computer useage in

> > traditional literature. Computers are the product of "demoniac"

> > society, and the education of how to use them is "so -called

> > education". It is not directly Vaisnava literature. Yet we can see

> > that Vaisnavas are using computers, and availing themselves of that

> > education. so it follow that

> they

> > are not mutually exclusive.

>

> This is such an important point. If it our BBT devotees had not been

> willing to learn computer processing from the non-devotees, it is doubtful

> that most of us could ever have read Srila Prabhupada's books.

 

Mataji,

I agree that mundane education has value when applied in higher service.

But our argument was on something else: that Vaisnavas have nothing to do

with mundane education pursued for the sake of sense gratification. That was

the definition (courtesy Mahananda Prabhu) posted: "approaching unqualified

and sinful men for some scientific knowledge for sense gratification".

 

Didn't Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur say that the quest for higher material

education (for sense gratification) is the biggest impediment to spiritual

advancement, worse than sex desire?

 

Your servant,

Goloka Candra dasa