Why should we have study of the sastras? Why should we have organized classes in which people then study this knowledge and get degrees? To get degrees, to increase our prestige, make outside people think that we are educated. But that is not the purpose. The purpose is to develop
"Humility; pridelessness; nonviolence; tolerance; simplicity; approaching a bonafide spiritual master; cleanliness; steadiness; self-control; renunciation of the objects of sense gratification; absence of false ego; the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age, and disease; detachment; freedom from entanglement with children, wife, home and the rest; even-mindedness amid pleasant
PHILOSOPHICAL DEFINITIONS LECTURE #3, 22nd Sep 2008, Bhaktivedanta Academy, Sridham Mayapur http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/content/uploads/2015/03/20080922_Philosophical_Definitions_menial_service-5_levels_of_consciousness-Dasa_Mula_BAMM-yajna_dana_tapa-5_topics_of_BG.mp3 HH BVPS Maharaja: One has to have an interest to know before one will be involved in the activity of learning and having been engaged in the activity of learning then one will naturally apply it. In this
PHILOSOPHICAL DEFINITIONS LECTURE #2, 19th Sep 2008, Bhaktivedanta Academy, Sridham Mayapur http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/content/uploads/2015/03/20080919_Philosophical_Definitions.mp3 HH BVPS Maharaja: Name, form, qualities and pastimes. The name establishes the form, creates the attraction. Then the qualities one becomes attached to because of this one will engage in pastimes. That will bring about your sambandha, prayojana
Secondary creation, that's where you are actually dealing with the material world, that's where things are actually functioning. So this is where you have to make the connection. Means, the origin is always on the other side of the Viraja river, but the connection is always on this side. Philosophy,