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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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If you want to learn about God, then you must approach a person who is conversant in the science of God. That thing first required. Then tad viddhi praṇipātena (BG 4.34). Praṇipāt means you must find out a person where you can, I mean to say, surrender. You should not go to a person who is less intelligent than you. That is useless. That is useless, because you cannot learn from him anything. You should go to a person who is at least more intelligent than you. Better to pick up a very intelligent person who can answer all the questions.
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[[Vanisource:690328 - Lecture SB 01.02.06 - Hawaii|690328 - Lecture SB 01.02.06 - Hawaii]]
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If you have got any question you can put; I shall try to answer. Have you got any question? No. Now try to understand: if you have got any doubts, you can question. Yes. Because this is a discussion. We are trying to understand God, so you must understand it nicely. Question is one of the items for understanding.

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:tad viddhi praṇipātena
:paripraśnena sevayā 
:([[Vanisource:BG 4.34 (1972)|BG 4.34]])
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In the Bhagavad-gītā, it is stated that to understand the transcendental science, the science of God, these things are required. What is that? You must find out a person who can answer. You cannot ask the question of God to a storekeeper. No. One who is conversant in the science. Anything.

Suppose if you want to learn engineering, you have to go to some engineer; or if you want to learn medical science, then you have to admit yourself to a medical college. Similarly, if you want to learn about God, then you must approach a person who is conversant in the science of God. That thing first required. Then tad viddhi praṇipātena ([[Vanisource:BG 4.34 (1972)|BG 4.34]]). Praṇipāt means you must find out a person where you can, I mean to say, surrender. You should not go to a person who is less intelligent than you. That is useless. That is useless, because you cannot learn from him anything. You should go to a person who is at least more intelligent than you. Better to pick up a very intelligent person who can answer all the questions. You see?

So tad viddhi praṇipātena: first of all find out a man, surrender there, and then put your questions, sincere questions, "What is this?" So far my disciples are concerned, they are my disciples for the last two, three years, still, daily I require questions, letters, at least one dozen from different branches. They are very, very intelligent questions. So question will be there.

If you try to understand something seriously, there must be questions. Just like a child who wants to understand something from the parents, always enquiring, "Father, what is this?" "Daddy, what it is?" "Mummy, what it is?" That is the intelligence. That is intelligence. You see? A child who always questions the parent, that means that he is going to be very intelligent in future.
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