भारत  के प्राचीन राज्य हैं।
Rāja-vidyā:  The King of Knowledge
Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Real knowledge is understanding “what I am.” Unless we come to the point of understanding what we are, we cannot attain real knowledge. When Sanātana Gosvāmī left his government post and came to Caitanya Mahāprabhu for the first time, he asked the Lord, “What is education?” Although Sanātana Gosvāmī knew a number of languages, including Sanskrit, he still inquired about real education. “The general populace calls me highly educated,” Sanātana Gosvāmī 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,” Sanātana Gosvāmī 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.” Sanātana Gosvāmī was actually speaking for all of us, for this is our present situation. We may be proud of our academic education, but if asked what we are, we are not able to say. Everyone is under the conception that this body is the self, but we learn from Vedic sources that this is not so. Only after realizing that we are not these bodies can we enter into real knowledge and understand what we actually are. This then, is the beginning of knowledge.
Rāja-vidyā  may be further defined as not only knowing what one is, but acting accordingly. If we