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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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So it is very clearly stated: tamasas tu rajas tasmāt sattvaṁ yad brahma-darśanam (SB 1.2.24). One must come to the platform of sattva-guṇa. Therefore we have got so many restrictions, just to keep him fit in the sattva-guṇa: no meat-eating, no illicit sex, no intoxication, no gambling. If one indulges in these affairs, he cannot come to the platform of sattva-guṇa, neither the things will be revealed to him. He'll remain in the darkness. Simply by academic scholarship it is impossible to understand what is Vedas, what is Bhāgavata, what is Bhagavad-gītā.
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[[Vanisource:721104 - Lecture SB 01.02.24 - Vrndavana|721104 - Lecture SB 01.02.24 - Vrndavana]]
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So the First and Second cantos are the two lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. One should begin worshiping Bhāgavatam, or the sound representation of Kṛṣṇa, by worshiping the First Canto and Second cantos. We are reading the First Canto. We are just worshiping one lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. Then the other. Then the thighs. Gradually, you have to rise to the face. The Tenth Canto is the face of Kṛṣṇa. Don't jump over immediately. Read it. But try to understand from the very beginning.

So our aim of life should be to come to the platform of sattva-guṇa, goodness. Otherwise it is not possible. A . . . a person like Max Mueller, in the depth of rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa, what he can write about Vedas, and what he can understand, Bhāgavata? This is all nonsense. They are going to the translation of Max Mueller. What he'll understand Bhāgavata and Vedas? He's in the rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa.

Therefore it is forbidden that, without becoming a brāhmin, nobody should read the Vedic literature. It is forbidden. That I have already said several times. Without being a graduate, nobody should enter law college. Similarly, Vedas, they are meant for brāhmins, not for the śūdras, not for the kṣatriya. Kṣatriya also, they . . . they are, but under the instruction of the brāhmin.

So this is perfect civilization. One must know his own business. Everyone should not attempt to understand Vedic literature, remaining himself in the rajo and tamo-guṇa. Kāma-lobhādayaś ca ye. There are many so-called sannyāsīs who went to your country. He was in fully in rajo and tamo-guṇa. He wanted to preach Vedānta. Therefore it was failure. Nobody can do so.

So it is very clearly stated: tamasas tu rajas tasmāt sattvaṁ yad brahma-darśanam ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.24|SB 1.2.24]]). One must come to the platform of sattva-guṇa. Therefore we have got so many restrictions, just to keep him fit in the sattva-guṇa: no meat-eating, no illicit sex, no intoxication, no gambling. If one indulges in these affairs, he cannot come to the platform of sattva-guṇa, neither the things will be revealed to him. He'll remain in the darkness. Simply by academic scholarship it is impossible to understand what is Vedas, what is Bhāgavata, what is Bhagavad-gītā.
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