Mantra Nine
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above the senses there is the mind, and above the mind there is the intelligence, and above intelligence there is the soul. Therefore, the aim of education should be self realization, realization of the spiritual values of the soul. Any education which does not lead to such a realization of life must be considered  avidyā , or nescience. And to culture such nescience means going down to the darkest region of ignorance.
Such mistaken educators are known in the Vedic language by four names:
1.  veda-vāda-rata , 
 2.  māyayā apahṛta-jñāna , 
 3.  āsuraṁ bhāvam , 
 4.  narādhama .
The  veda-vāda-rata  people pose themselves as very learned in the Vedic literature, but unfortunately they are completely diverted from the purpose of the  Vedas . In the  Bhagavad-gītā  it is said that the purpose of the  Vedas  is to know the Personality of Godhead, but these  veda-vāda-rata  men are not at all interested in the Personality of Godhead. On the contrary, they are fascinated by such results as the attainment of heaven.
As is said in  Mantra  One of  Śrī Īśopaniṣad , we should know that the Personality of Godhead is the Proprietor of everything, and we must be satisfied with our alloted portion of the necessities of life. The purpose of the whole Vedic literature is to awaken this God consciousness in the forgetful living being, and the same principle is presented in various ways in the world's various Scriptures for the understanding of foolish mankind. Thus the ultimate purpose is to bring one back to Godhead.
But the  veda-vāda-rata  people, instead of realizing the purport of the  Vedas , take it for granted that side issues such as the attainment of heavenly pleasure for sense gratification—the lust for which is the very cause of their material bondage in the first place—is the ultimate end of the  Vedas . Such people misguide others by misinterpreting the Vedic literature, and sometimes they condemn the  Purāṇas , which are authentic