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Teachings of queen kuntī 17
The Vedic knowledge is given to everyone because Kṛṣṇa is within everyone’s heart (sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭaḥ), but one must be qualified to receive that knowledge. Kṛṣṇa helps us by giving us knowledge both from within as the Supersoul (caitya-guru) and from without
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who is abhijña, very intelligent and experienced, and that original intelligent person transmitted knowledge We understand that we get knowledge from another person with whom we are face to face. Therefore, how did he receive knowledge? That is explained in the Bhāgavatam: tene brahma hṛdā. Therefore although Brahmā was alone, he received knowledge dictated by the Supreme. The word brahma means “Vedic knowledge.” Thus the Vedic knowledge was given first to Lord Brahmā.
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Brahmā receives knowledge from Kṛṣṇa and distributes that Vedic knowledge, and therefore he is an authority There are four sampradāyas, or chains of disciplic succession, through which Vedic knowledge is distributed authoritative representative of Kṛṣṇa appearing in one of these sampradāyas, and then we can receive real knowledge
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But unfortunately people have no knowledge of what God is, whether one can go back home to Him or not Because they have no knowledge, they are simply like animals. People have imperfect knowledge or no knowledge at all.
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Pratyakṣa, the process of receiving knowledge through direct perception, has no value, because our senses We have so many senses through which we can experience knowledge – the eyes, the ears, the nose, and so on – but because these senses are imperfect, whatever knowledge we get by exercising these senses This is imperfect knowledge. If you do not know, then your knowledge is imperfect.
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“The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa,
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Kṛṣṇa is perfect, so we take knowledge from Him.
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, who are attached to the Brahman effulgence, try to understand the Absolute Truth by dint of their knowledge , but they do not know that their knowledge is imperfect and limited whereas Kṛṣṇa, the Absolute Truth We cannot approach the unlimited by our limited knowledge. That is not possible.
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Because we are all individual persons but our knowledge and opulence are limited, the impersonalists Because we are limited and God is unlimited, the Māyāvādīs, or impersonalists, with their poor fund of knowledge
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We have to follow the mahājanas, the great authorities, if we want to receive transcendental knowledge The Vedic injunction is, tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigacchet: if one wants to be in knowledge of
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Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who has descended in the form of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu to teach us real knowledge of Godhead, who had now assumed the form of Caitanya Mahāprabhu just to teach people how to develop knowledge
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Rascal scientists may say this, but they do not have sufficient knowledge.