This part of the blog contains concepts and fundamentals to proceed in bhakti. Academic knowledge provides information of the world, but spiritual knowledge teaches us ultimate information and highest concept called LOVE. Material knowledge is called jada-vidya, or knowledge of inert matter, while spiritual knowledge is called para-vidya, or knowledge of transcendence. Jada-vidya helps us to use the body and live in the material world, but para-vidya can help us attain liberation from the material world and can take us to the eternal blissful spiritual world. Knowledge of the spirit is considered transcendental because it can free us from our conditional material existence.

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So-called knowledge of this world is incomplete, because information in this world keeps changing continuously; what is true today will no longer remain true tomorrow. Ignorance is caused by forgetfulness of our transcendental constitutional position and relationship with Krishna. By nature we are joyful. Real knowledge is to know what matter is, what spirit is, and the controller of both. And such knowledge must transform one’s heart by invoking our divine nature, which is expressed by displaying divine qualities