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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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If you get the chance of getting such mahātmā, then try to give him service. Become his servant. Then your path of liberation will be open. And tamo-dvāraṁ yoṣitāṁ saṅgi-saṅgam: those who are after sense gratification, if you associate with them, then you are going to the darkness.
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One who has understood Kṛṣṇa—"Vāsudeva is everything"—he is ''mahātmā''. ''Sa mahātmā''. So that is recommended. ''Mahat-sevāṁ dvāram āhur vimukteḥ'' ([[vanisource:SB 5.5.2|SB 5.5.2]]). If you get the chance of getting such ''mahātmā'', then try to give him service. Become his servant. Then your path of liberation will be open. And ''tamo-dvāraṁ yoṣitāṁ saṅgi-saṅgam'': those who are after sense gratification, if you associate with them, then you are going to the darkness. Two ways are open: ''āhur vimukteḥ and dvāram'', ''tamo-dvāram''. Now make your choice, "In which way we shall go: in this way or that way?" 

Everything is given, information, in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' and all other śāstras. ''Bhagavad-gītā'' is the gist of all ''Vedas'' and ''Upaniṣads'', ''Vedānta''. ''Vedānta-kṛd vedānta-vit''. Kṛṣṇa is ''vedānta-vit'' and ''vedānta-kṛt''. Kṛṣṇa, in His incarnation as Vyāsadeva, He has compiled the ''Vedānta-sūtra''. He has recommended also in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'', ''brahma-sūtra-padaiś caiva hetumadbhir viniścitaiḥ'' ([[vanisource:BG 13.5 (1972)|BG 13.5]]). ''Brahma-sūtra-padaiḥ'', everything is established very reasonably. So Kṛṣṇa is speaking ''Vedānta-sūtra''. ''Veda'' means knowledge; anta means the end of knowledge. The end of knowledge is to understand Kṛṣṇa. ''Bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān'' ([[vanisource:BG 7.19 (1972)|BG 7.19]]). Man of knowledge is ''jñānavān''. So ordinary ''jñānavān'', little knowledge, they cannot understand. ''Yatatām api siddhānām'' ([[vanisource:BG 7.3 (1972)|BG 7.3]]). But a person cultivating knowledge for many lives, he can understand, ''vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti sa mahātmā sudurlabhaḥ'' ([[vanisource:BG 7.19 (1972)|BG 7.19]]). So Vāsudeva personally explaining Himself, "I am like this; I am like that." Why should we not understand? What is the objection? ''Boliye''.
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