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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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We require jñāna. Jñāna means to understand his own self. Our . . . unless one understands that, "I am not this body," there is no jñāna, anyone, however a scholar he may be. Therefore it is called māyayāpahṛta-jñānāḥ. If we say that a so-called educated person is in ajñāna because he does not know what he is, then . . . that was admitted by Sanātana Gosvāmī. He was prime minister of Nawab Hussain Shah Khan, and he joined Caitanya Mahāprabhu's movement. So he submitted himself, surrendered himself to Caitanya Mahāprabhu, by saying that grāmya-vyavahāre loke kaha ei paṇḍita (CC Madhya 20.100). Grāmya-vyavahāre: "By this usual way, my neighborhood persons they say paṇḍita. ".
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[[Vanisource:731113 - Lecture SB 01.02.07 - Delhi|731113 - Lecture SB 01.02.07 - Delhi]]
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So anyone can take advantage. We are preaching this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement that, "You take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, your life will be perfect." And what is the perfection of life? Jñāna and vairāgya. Because everyone is working under the wrong impression that, "I am this body"; therefore he is ajñāna. He does not know that "I am not this body." As soon as he comes to the understanding that, "I am not this body; I am spirit soul," then jñāna, immediately he will inquire, "Then what is the activities of the spirit soul? So far I have worked for the interest of my this body, but I have done nothing with the interest of my spirit, as I am. I am a spirit soul." That is bhakti-yoga. The activities of the spirit soul, the activities of Brahman, is bhakti-yoga. Bhakti-yoga is not material activities. Bhakti-yoga is spiritual, pure spiritual activities.

Therefore in the Bhagavad-gītā you will find, māṁ ca 'vyabhicāreṇa bhakti-yogena yaḥ sevate ([[Vanisource:BG 14.26 (1972)|BG 14.26]]). Avyabhicāreṇa, unadulterated bhakti-yoga. Yaḥ sevate. Anyone who is engaged in unadulterated bhakti-yoga, sa guṇān samatītyaitān brahma-bhūyāya kalpate, immediately he realizes his identification as Brahman. Sa guṇān. These sattva-rajo-tamo-guṇa, I have described already, he immediately transcends. Mukti means to get out of the influence of the sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa, tamo-guṇa. That is mukti. Now, here is the assurance by the Lord Himself: "Anyone who is engaged in unadulterated, without any mixture, without any adulteration, pure bhakti, then . . ." Avyabhicāreṇa bhakti-yogena yaḥ sev . . . same thing as it is said in the Bhāgavata, bhakti-yogena, bhakti-yogaḥ prayojitaḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.7|SB 1.2.7]]). Sa guṇān samatītyaitān brahma-bhūyāya kalpate. He immediately becomes transcendental to these material modes of nature and he becomes Brahman. Brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati na . . . ([[Vanisource:BG 18.54 (1972)|BG 18.54]]). These things are there.

So we require jñāna. Jñāna means to understand his own self. Our . . . unless one understands that, "I am not this body," there is no jñāna, anyone, however a scholar he may be. Therefore it is called māyayāpahṛta-jñānāḥ. If we say that a so-called educated person is in ajñāna because he does not know what he is, then . . . that was admitted by Sanātana Gosvāmī. He was prime minister of Nawab Hussain Shah Khan, and he joined Caitanya Mahāprabhu's movement. So he submitted himself, surrendered himself to Caitanya Mahāprabhu, by saying that grāmya-vyavahāre loke kaha ei paṇḍita ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 20.100|CC Madhya 20.100]]). Grāmya-vyavahāre: "By this usual way, my neighborhood persons they say paṇḍita. "

He was actually very learned scholar in Sanskrit and Arabic and Persian language. He was minister in Nawab Hussain Shah's government. So actually people used to address him, "Paṇḍitjī." But he admits that, "These people call me paṇḍita, but I am such a paṇḍita that I do not know what I am. This is my paṇḍita." Grāmya-vyavahāre kaha paṇḍita satya kori māni, āpanāra hitāhita kichui nā jāni ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 20.100|CC Madhya 20.100]]): "I am such a rascal that I do not know what is the ultimate goal of life, and these rascals address me as paṇḍita. "

So you will find many paṇḍitas like this, many learned scholars. And ask him, "What you are?" He is silent. "Wherefrom you have come?" Silent. "Where you are going?" Silent. "What is God?" Silent. So these kind of paṇḍitas will not save you. If you actually want to save yourself from dragging down again to the lower abominable species of life, then you must take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, bhakti-yoga. Vāsudeve bhagavati. Then you will be enlightened. Vāsudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogaḥ prayojitaḥ, janayaty āśu vairāgyam ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.7|SB 1.2.7]]). Because vairāgya means detachment. Detachment. When you understand that, "I do not belong to this establishment," then naturally you will be vairāgya that, "What interest I have got?" The karmīs are very much attached. Karmīs, they are working very hard. They are thinking that, "This material advancement of life will make me happy." But that is not the fact. Therefore they are ajñānī. And the jñānīs, when they are baffled in advancing, or getting peace of mind, or peace by material activities, then they say, brahma satyaṁ jagan mithyā, "This world is false. Brahman is reality." But if he does not engage himself in Brahman activities, then he will also fall, the so-called jñānī.
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