Prabhupāda: So far I am concerned, although people say I am Sanskrit scholar, but we are not educated as Sanskrit scholar. Whatever Sanskrit we have learned from this book only. A Sanskrit scholar is different, he learns grammar 14 years.
Guest: A waste of time, a waste of life.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Then other side, he takes a whole time, you see?
Guest: (indistinct) greatest Romanian poet and he studies Sanskrit and (indistinct) he's worshiped like Shakespeare in Romania. And (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: In Germany there are many Sanskrit scholars.
Guest: Max Muller for example.
Prabhupāda: Max Muller was not very big scholar, but at the present moment there are many actually scholars.
Guest: And Lesnee(?), Professor Lesnee(?) was another scholar in Bengali and Sanskrit.
Prabhupāda: But that does not mean he knows the Vedic literatures.
Guest: No, but they were...
Prabhupāda: Nāyam ātmā pravacanena labhyo (Sanskrit)... This is another verse (?).
Guest: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Simply because you have good brain substance, you'll be a devotee?
Guest: No, no. Bhāvanaḥ(?).
Prabhupāda: Bhāvanaḥ(?) means it is, it is by the mercy of Kṛṣṇa. If one is sincerely surrendered soul unto Kṛṣṇa, then He gives the intelligence how to become Kṛṣṇa conscious. It is not a mechanical way.