Action in Knowledge of Kṛṣṇa
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If we leave this material body in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, we will no longer have to return to the material world. The point is to avoid this material existence altogether. It is not a question of improving our condition in the material world. In prison a man may want to improve his condition to become a first class prisoner, and the government may give him A-status, but no sane man will become satisfied by becoming an A-class prisoner. He should desire to get out of the prison altogether. In the material world some of us are A-class, B-class or C-class prisoners, but in any case we are all prisoners. Real knowledge does not consist in simply getting an MA or PhD but in understanding these basic problems of existence.
yasya sarve samārambhāḥ kāma-saṅkalpa-varjitāḥ jñānāgni-dagdha-karmāṇam tam āhuḥ paṇḍitam budhāḥ
“One is understood to be in full knowledge whose every act is devoid of desire for sense gratification. He is said by sages to be a worker whose fruitive action is burned up by the fire of perfect knowledge.” (Bg. 4.19)
The word  paṇḍitam  means learned, and  budhāḥ  means well-versed. In the Tenth Chapter we also find the word  budhāḥ  in the verse  budhā bhāvasaman-vitāḥ  (Bg. 10.8). According to  Bhagavad-gītā , one may not be a learned man just because he has received a lot of education from a university.  Bhagavad-