11.\u2009\u2009HIGHLY LEARNED
\nWhen a person is highly educated and acts strictly on moral principles, he is called highly learned. A person conversant in different departments of knowledge is called educated, and because he acts on moral principles, he is called morally stout. Together, these two factors constitute learning.
\nK\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s receiving education from S\u0101nd\u012bpani Muni is described by \u015ar\u012b N\u0101rada Muni as follows: \u201cIn the beginning, Lord Brahm\u0101 and others are like clouds of evaporated water from the great ocean of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. In other words, Brahm\u0101 first received the Vedic education from K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, as the clouds receive water from the ocean. That Vedic education or instruction which was spoken by Brahm\u0101 to the world was then reposed upon the mountain of S\u0101nd\u012bpani Muni. S\u0101nd\u012bpani Muni\u2019s instructions to K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a are like a reservoir of water on the mountain, which flows as a river and goes again to mix with the source, the ocean of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a.\u201d To be more clear, the idea is that K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a actually cannot be instructed by anyone, just as the ocean does not receive water from any source but itself. It only appears that the rivers are pouring water into the ocean. So it is clear that Brahm\u0101 received his education from K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, and from Brahm\u0101, via the disciplic succession, this Vedic instruction was distributed. S\u0101nd\u012bpani Muni is likened to the river which is flowing down again to that same original ocean of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a.
\nThe Siddhas, the inhabitants of Siddhaloka, where all are born with fully developed mystic powers, and the C\u0101ra\u1e47as, the inhabitants of a similar planet, pray to K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a as follows: \u201cMy Lord Govinda, the goddess of learning is decorated with fourteen kinds of educational ornaments, her intelligence is all-pervading within the four departments of the Vedas, her attention is always on the lawbooks given by great sages like Manu, and she is appareled in six kinds of expert knowledge \u2013 namely, Vedic evidence, grammar, astrology, rhetoric, vocabulary and logic. Her constant friends are the supplements of the Vedas, the Pur\u0101\u1e47as, and she is decorated with the final conclusion of all education. And now she has acquired an opportunity to sit with You as a class friend in school, and she is now engaged in Your service.\u201d
\nK\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, does not require any education, but He gives a chance to the goddess of learning to serve Him. Being self-sufficient, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a does not require the service of any living entity, although He has many devotees. It is because K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is so kind and merciful that He gives everyone the opportunity to serve Him, as though He required the service of His devotees.
\nRegarding His moral principles, it is stated in \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam that K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is ruling over V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana as death personified to the thieves, as pleasing bliss to the pious, as the most beautiful Cupid to the young girls and as the most munificent personality to the poor men. He is as refreshing as the full moon to His friends, and to His opponents He is the annihilating fire generated from Lord \u015aiva. K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is therefore the most perfect moralist in His reciprocal dealings with different kinds of persons. When He is death personified to the thieves, it is not that He is without moral principles or that He is cruel; He is still kind, because to punish thieves with death is to exhibit the highest quality of moral principles. In Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101, also, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a says that He deals with different kinds of persons according to their dealings with Him. K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s dealings with devotees and with nondevotees, although different, are equally good. Because K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is all-good, His dealings with everyone are always good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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