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There is a story about a poor widow who was desperate to educate her son so that he might be successful and bring money to the household. For this purpose she borrowed money to hire a tutor. One day that unfortunate woman listened from another room as the tutor instructed her son in geometry. "Let the ABC be a triangle," was all she heard before she angrily rushed in to rebuke the man. "I pay you ten rupees a month. For that I have been expecting you to raise my boy to higher levels of learning. But today I see that after all this time you have not been able to bring him beyond simple ABCs! He learned the alphabet long ago. So as you are only wasting his time and my money, I order you to leave my house and never return!" So angry was she that there was no possibility of explaining to her that the ABCs of geometry are indeed of a higher order of knowledge than she had yet experienced. MORAL: In an age of faithlessness brought about by religious fanaticism, many so called intellectuals react to transcendental teachings of Krsna consciousness as did the widow to the tutor's geometry class. They need only hear the words "God," "devotion" and "spiritual world" before rejecting out of hand the philosophy of Krsna consciousness as just another type of blind faith.There is a story about a poor widow who was desperate to educate her son so that he might be successful and bring money to the household. For this purpose she borrowed money to hire a tutor. One day that unfortunate woman listened from another room as the tutor instructed her son in geometry. "Let the ABC be a triangle," was all she heard before she angrily rushed in to rebuke the man. "I pay you ten rupees a month. For that I have been expecting you to raise my boy to higher levels of learning. But today I see that after all this time you have not been able to bring him beyond simple ABCs! He learned the alphabet long ago. So as you are only wasting his time and my money, I order you to leave my house and never return!" So angry was she that there was no possibility of explaining to her that the ABCs of geometry are indeed of a higher order of knowledge than she had yet experienced. MORAL: In an age of faithlessness brought about by religious fanaticism, many so called intellectuals react to transcendental teachings of Krsna consciousness as did the widow to the tutor's geometry class. They need only hear the words "God," "devotion" and "spiritual world" before rejecting out of hand the philosophy of Krsna consciousness as just another type of blind faith.
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