Action in Knowledge of Krsna 107

vasamsi jirnani yatha vihaya
navani grhnati naro parani

tatha Ssarirani vihaya jirnany
anyani samyati navani dehi

“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 pandita. Canakya
Pandit gives the standard for education or the
qualification for a pandita 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
pandita, and this should be the standard of life. It is
therefore to be understood that one is to be con-
sidered 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 pandita from Bhagavad-gita. Similarly, the
word budhah 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-gita:

aham sarvasya prabhavo
mattah sarvam pravartate
