Thank You for Educating Us in God Consciousness

When I hear people make mistakes while speaking about God, I try not to be puffed up.  Just because we have received the best God conscious education from Srila Prabhupada, does not mean we should look down on others.  Students at Harvard University or Oxford University may be better educated, but they spoil their treasure if they look down upon common people.  Similarly, we do not want to be a snob in God consciousness, but appreciate what Srila Prabhupada has taught us. 

I feel humbled sometimes when I see someone else’s faith in God.  I also meet people who have more love for God than I do, even though they may  not have received such a thorough education.  I will never stop being grateful to Prabhupada, however, for giving me this education.  In that sense, I am proud. 

In the modern age, people are proud of their college degrees, but this is also an age of increase in atheistic propaganda.  Therefore, unless we get a good education in God consciousness, we are liable to be misdirected by education.  Godless education is worse than being illiterate.  It is like a poisonous snake with a jewel on its head.

Swamiji blasted the ignorance of puffed up people.  He said, “You do not know anything.  The whole world does not know anything.  No one knows God.  You think that the self is the body.  You think that this life is for amassing money for sense gratification.  This is all ignorance, all illusion.”  Prabhupada said that love with the family and the noble attempts to help people by altruism are both illusion; they will all be destroyed.