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So we want to introduce this system of education for the boys who are at the kaumara age. That is recommended by Prahlada Maharaja, kaumara acaret prajno dharman bhagavatan iha [SB 7.6.1]. So this is the practical application in life of the education mentioned in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. I am also practically finding that if any of our students artificially try to become scholars by associating with unwanted persons they become victimized, for a little learning is dangerous, especially for the Westerners. I am practically seeing that as soon as they begin to learn a little sanskrit immediately they feel that they have become more than their guru and then the policy is kill guru and be killed himself. (More...)

Prabhupada: Yes, upasana... It is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, amanitvam adambhitvam ahimsa ksantir arjavam acaryopasanam [Bg 13.8]. Vinigrahah, indriya-vinigrahah. [aside:] Find out this, Thirteenth Chapter. These are the process. First of all amanitvam. You have to surrender yourself, that "I am insignificant." But in beginning you are puffed up: "I am so academic. Now I have got Ph.D." Rascals. First, beginning, is amanitvam. And as soon as we become puffed-up, a little knowledge-a little knowledge is dangerous-then finished. So they are doing like that. A little knowledge, I think, "I have become more than my Guru Maharaja." Finished. That is the defect. Find out. Read the... (More...)