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<div class="heading">Everything is there to understand about God. Simply you have to increase your attachment for hearing. That is, that qualification required. Not that first of all you pass M.A. examination, then you come here and you can understand. No. Simply by hearing, hearing, hearing, you will become expert.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.2.15 -- Los Angeles, August 18, 1972|Lecture on SB 1.2.15 -- Los Angeles, August 18, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
So everything has got a test. But these rascals, without testing, accepting another rascal as God. Caitanya Mahāprabhu, when He was asked that how to accept one God, He said: "Well, there is in the ''śāstra'' mention, the characteristic. According to the characteristic, if it is corroborating, then He is God." This rascal is saying, "No, there is no need of God . . . ah, book. Simply I say; you accept it." The people are accepting. How foolish rascals they are. Just see. There must be a test. We are accepting Kṛṣṇa as God not blindly, but by tasting. By tasting. His character is mentioned in the books.

Therefore, we accept God not by blind faith, but by tasting. Although we cannot test, but ''śāstra'' gives us the chance of tasting. We accept spiritual master by tasting, not by blind faith. No. According to the Vedic instruction, ''tad-vijñānārtham.''

:''tasmād guruṁ prapadyeta''
:''jijñāsuḥ śreya uttamam''
:''śābde pare ca niṣṇātaṁ . . .''
:([[Vanisource:SB 11.3.21|SB 11.3.21]])

These are the qualifications, symptoms of ''guru. Śābde pare ca niṣṇātam''. He has got full knowledge in the transcendental science. And without book, how he has got knowledge? Or without hearing from another authority?

So . . . so one must be intelligent. Then he can become free from this knot, hard knot of material life, by cutting it with the weapon, ''yad anudhyāsinā.'' And what is that? ''Chindanti ko . . . chindanti'', cuts; ''kovidāḥ'', intelligent. ''Tasya ko na kuryāt kathā-ratim'' ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.15|SB 1.2.15]]). ''Kathā-ratim.'' One should be intelligent enough to understand or to hear ''kathā'' of Kṛṣṇa. Simply you have to do this.

Just like you are all sitting here—it doesn't require that you have to pass M.A. examination, Ph.D. examination. God has given you the ear. Simply you sit down and hear from a realized person. The words are there, the message are there. Just like ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'', ''Bhagavad-gītā'', especially. Everything is there to understand about God. Simply you have to increase your attachment for hearing. That is, that qualification required. Not that first of all you pass M.A. examination, then you come here and you can understand. No. Simply by hearing, hearing, hearing, you will become expert. ''Kovida''. Simply.

That . . . this process has been approved by Caitanya Mahāprabhu. ''Sthāne sthitāḥ śruti-gatāṁ tanu-vāṅ-manobhiḥ'' ([[Vanisource:SB 10.14.3|SB 10.14.3]]). You can remain in your position, but try to hear the transcendental message from realized soul. Then gradually you will be enlightened and you will be free from this knot, this material bondage.