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| So this is the Vedic injunction. If you want to understand this science... It is science; it is not sentiment. Bhakti-yoga is not sentiment, it is a science. Therefore we have to take it from authorized Vedic instruction. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has advised that science means you have to take it from the Vedic knowledge. Vedic knowledge means there is no mistake, there is no cheating, there is no imperfection. Everything is perfect. So science means which is perfect knowledge. Not "perhaps," "it may be"; that is not science—theory. Theory is not science. Science, the most important items of science is observation and experiment: first of all to study the situation by observation, and then practically, when you are able to make an experiment, then it is science. Otherwise, theoretical knowledge has no meaning. | | So this is the Vedic injunction. If you want to understand this science . . . It is science; it is not sentiment. ''Bhakti-yoga ''is not sentiment, it is a science. Therefore we have to take it from authorized Vedic instruction. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has advised that science means you have to take it from the Vedic knowledge. Vedic knowledge means there is no mistake, there is no cheating, there is no imperfection. Everything is perfect. So science means which is perfect knowledge. Not "perhaps," "it may be"; that is not science—theory. Theory is not science. Science, the most important items of science is observation and experiment: first of all to study the situation by observation, and then practically, when you are able to make an experiment, then it is science. Otherwise, theoretical knowledge has no meaning. |
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| So in order to know that science, one has to approach a perfect teacher. Tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigacchet (MU 1.2.12). Here also it is said, gurau haṁsa. Haṁse gurau mayi. The mayi is also significant. That means..., paramahaṁsa guru means he's as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, because he does not deviate from the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is the symptom of guru. Guru does not deviate from the instruction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He does not manufacture something new, novel. No, the same thing. Just like Kṛṣṇa says in the Fourth Chapter, although He is the speaker, millions of years ago He instructed the science to sun-god, and again when He was instructing to Arjuna, He said that "I am instructing the same thing." Sa evāyaṁ purātanaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 4.3|BG 4.3]]). Not that on account of change of time, the instruction has been changed. No. (aside:) What is that exact verse? Sa evāyaṁ purātanaḥ? | | So in order to know that science, one has to approach a perfect teacher.'' Tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigacchet ''(MU 1.2.12). Here also it is said,'' gurau haṁsa''. ''Haṁse gurau mayi''. The ''mayi ''is also significant. That means . . . ''paramahaṁsa guru ''means he's as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, because he does not deviate from the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is the symptom of ''guru''. ''Guru ''does not deviate from the instruction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He does not manufacture something new, novel. No, the same thing. Just like Kṛṣṇa says in the Fourth Chapter, although He is the speaker, millions of years ago He instructed the science to sun god, and again when He was instructing to Arjuna, He said that "I am instructing the same thing." ''Sa evāyaṁ purātanaḥ'' ([[vanisource:BG 4.3 (1972)|BG 4.3]]). Not that on account of change of time, the instruction has been changed. No. |
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