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<div class="heading">Anyone who understands the Absolute Truth factually as He is, not by mental speculation, but by the paramparā system... So therefore, the author of Caitanya-caritāmṛta is beginning with guru, pūrve gurv-ādi. Beginning is the guru, the spiritual master, because he is the representative of the paramparā system, disciplic succession. Therefore, whatever we do, we must first of all try to understand from guru.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.3 -- Mayapur, March 3, 1974|Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.3 -- Mayapur, March 3, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
Knowledge means ''tattva-jñāna'', to know the Absolute Truth. In the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' also . . . (aside) They are making noise. Hmm . . . Kṛṣṇa says:

:''manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu''
:''kaścid yatati siddhaye''
:''yatatām api siddhānāṁ''
:''kaścid māṁ vetti tattvataḥ''
:([[Vanisource:BG 7.3 (1972)|BG 7.3]])

Everything should be understood in truth. So our this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to understand the Absolute Truth. So in another place Kṛṣṇa says, ''janma karma me divyaṁ yo jānāti tattvataḥ'' ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9 (1972)|BG 4.9]]): anyone who understands the Absolute Truth factually as He is, not by mental speculation, but by the ''paramparā'' system . . . so therefore, the author of ''Caitanya-caritāmṛta'' is beginning with ''guru, pūrve gurv-ādi'' ([[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.3|CC Adi 7.3]]). Beginning is the ''guru'', the spiritual master, because he is the representative of the ''paramparā'' system, disciplic succession. Therefore, whatever we do, we must first of all try to understand from ''guru''.

Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī also says in his ''Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, ādau gurvāśrayam'': the beginning of spiritual life is to accept the bona fide spiritual master. ''Sad-dharma pṛcchāt'' (Brs. 1.1.74). Then inquiry from the spiritual master. The approach should be by full surrender. ''Tad viddhi praṇipātena, tattvam, etad viddhi'' ([[Vanisource:BG 4.34 (1972)|BG 4.34]]). By ''praṇipātena. Prakṛṣṭa-rūpeṇa nipātam.'' Just like we have learned how to offer obeisances to the spiritual master, to the ''gurus'', falling down flat, ''praṇipā'', no reservation, falling flat—that is called ''praṇipā''—so one has to approach the spiritual master. That is the Vedic injunction. ''Tad vijñānārtham. Tad'' means ''tattva''. In order to understand the ''tattva'', the Absolute Truth, ''vijñāna . . . vijñāna'' means practical science, not theoretical. Theoretical is ''jñāna''. When that is practically applied in life, that is called ''vijñānam''. In the ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'', therefore, the statement is there: ''jñānaṁ me paramaṁ guhyaṁ yad vijñāna-samanvitam'' (''Bhāgavata''). ''Jñāna'' and ''vijñāna''.</p>
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