When Sanatana Gosvami left his government post and came to Chaitanya Mahaprabhu for the first time, he asked the Lord, "What is education?" Although Sanatana Gosvami knew a number of languages, including Sanskrit, he still inquired about real education. "The general populace calls me highly educated," Sanatana Gosvami told the Lord, "and I am such a fool that I actually believe them."
The Lord replied, "Why should you not think you're well educated? You're a great scholar in Sanskrit and Persian."
"That may be," Sanatana Gosvami said, "but I do not know what I am." He then went on to tell the Lord: "I do not wish to suffer, but these material miseries are forced upon me. I neither know where I've come from nor where I'm going, but people are calling me educated. When they call me a great scholar, I am satisfied, but in truth I am such a great fool that I know not what I am."
The Vedic literatures teach us about the soul, supersoul, laws of action and reaction, material nature, eternal time and much more. In this section, we shall learn about these sciences and also get a glimpse of the amazing knowledge which our ancestors already possessed.
Let us explore the following topics in detail in this section:
