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<h3>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures</h3>
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Every one of you must know that spiritually you are damn rascal, nothing! Spiritually, all these persons who are very proud of their learning, they're all damn rascals. Asat. Simply rascals. Simply rascal. So you must know that, "I am simply rascal" if you want to make progress in spiritual life. And what do you know about spiritual life? You do not know anything.
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[[Vanisource:670209 - Lecture CC Adi 07.77-81 - San Francisco|670209 - Lecture CC Adi 07.77-81 - San Francisco]]
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That Sanātana Gosvāmī, he was great scholar in Sanskrit. He was great scholar in Parsi and Urdu. He was minister, very learned man, and very man of position. But when he approached Caitanya Mahāprabhu, he said that, "Ordinary people, they say that I am very learned man. And I am such a fool that I also accept their version, I think that I am learned man." "What is the objection? You are already learned. You are very good scholar."

"Yes. Now I understand that I am fool, because I do not know what I am. I may be materially advanced in learning, but if somebody asks me, 'Can you say what you are, wherefrom you have come, where you are going after death, why you are suffering all these material miseries? Can you have any remedy?' oh, there is no answer. So what sort of learned man I am? I cannot answer all these things. Therefore I have come to You."

Similarly, Arjuna, when he was arguing with Kṛṣṇa, "Oh, if I kill my grandfather, then such-and-such thing will occur me. Oh, if I kill my brothers, the my brothers' wives, they will be widow and they'll be corrupted, and there will be unwanted children." So many things. He was arguing rightly. That was not . . . that is from materialistic point of view. From materialistic point of view, you may be very great learned man.

But every one of you must know that spiritually you are damn rascal, nothing! Spiritually, all these persons who are very proud of their learning, they're all damn rascals. Asat. Simply rascals. Simply rascal. So you must know that, "I am simply rascal" if you want to make progress in spiritual life. And what do you know about spiritual life? You do not know anything.

So that is the representation of Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He says that, "My Guru Mahārāja found Me . . ." It is better if you remain a fool always before your spiritual master. Then you'll make advance. And if you think yourself, even for a moment that, "I know something more than my spiritual master," you are fallen. This is called vyavasāyātmikā buddhir ekeha kuru nandana ([[Vanisource:BG 2.41 (1972)|BG 2.41]]). That one vow that, "I have to follow the order of my spiritual . . ." that will make you advanced.
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