Action in Knowledge of Kṛṣṇa
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vāsāmsi jīrṇāni yathā vihāya navāni gṛhṇāti naro parāṇi tathā śarīrāṇi vihāya jīrṇāny anyāni saṁyāti navāni dehī
“As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, similarly, the soul accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.” (Bg. 2.22)
Whenever we see any living entity we should think, “Here is a spirit soul.” Anyone who can understand such a spiritual vision of life is  paṇḍita . Cāṇakya Paṇḍit gives the standard for education or the qualification for a  paṇḍita  in this way: “The learned man sees all women, with the exception of his wife, as his mother; he sees all material possessions as garbage in the street, and he looks on the sufferings of others as he would look on them in himself.” Lord Buddha taught that we should not even hurt animals by word or deed. This is the qualification for a  paṇḍita , and this should be the standard of life. It is therefore to be understood that one is to be considered educated in accordance with his vision of life and his activity in accordance with that vision, not by his academic degrees. This is the understanding of the word  paṇḍita  from  Bhagavad-gītā . Similarly, the word  budhāḥ  specifically refers to one who is well-versed in the study of scripture. The results of such realization and scriptural learning are thus described in  Bhagavad-gītā :
ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate