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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Sri Isopanisad Lectures</h3>
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Except devotional service, there is no possibility of understanding the Absolute Truth. Any other process means it covered. Just like the . . . you understand the sun planet from here. You are seeing the sun planet, that's a fact, but that does not mean you know what is actually the sun planet is, because you have no access to approach there. You may speculate, that's all. Speculation means the blind man seeing the elephant. Somebody thought, "Oh, it is just like a pillar." Yes. Big, big legs. Somebody understood the trunk. Somebody understood the ears, elephant. There is a story, some blind men studying the elephant. So they were giving different conclusions. Somebody: "The elephant is just like a pillar." Somebody says: "Elephant is just like big boat." Somebody is . . . somebody is . . . but actually what is elephant, if you have no eyes to see, you can go on speculating. Therefore it is here said that pūṣann apāvṛṇu: "Please uncover the covering. Then I can see You.".
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Except devotional service, there is no possibility of understanding the Absolute Truth. Any other process means it covered. Just like the . . . you understand the sun planet from here. You are seeing the sun planet, that's a fact, but that does not mean you know what is actually the sun planet is, because you have no access to approach there. You may speculate, that's all.

Speculation means the blind man seeing the elephant. Somebody thought, "Oh, it is just like a pillar." Yes. Big, big legs. Somebody understood the trunk. Somebody understood the ears, elephant. There is a story, some blind men studying the elephant. So they were giving different conclusions. Somebody: "The elephant is just like a pillar." Somebody says: "Elephant is just like big boat." Somebody is . . . somebody is . . . but actually what is elephant, if you have no eyes to see, you can go on speculating. Therefore it is here said that pūṣann apāvṛṇu: "Please uncover the covering. Then I can see You."

So that seeing power is the bhakta's, the devotee's because Kṛṣṇa certifies, bhaktyā mām abhijānāti ([[Vanisource:BG 18.55 (1972)|BG 18.55]]). Premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu vilokayanti (Bs. 5.38). Those who have developed love of Godhead by that ointment, prema, ointment . . . just like sometimes . . . in India it is very . . . they have got some . . . what is called? Surma? Ungent, surma. Yes. If you apply that surma, your sight becomes bright immediately. So if you smear your eyes with love of Godhead, then you will see God always. Santaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu vilokayanti. Yes.
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