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Unless we develop our love for Kṛṣṇa, there is no meaning of reading. And if we can develop our love for Kṛṣṇa just like this brāhmaṇa, even without reading any book, that is wanted. That is wanted.
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He(Caitanya Maharaprabhu) was traveling in South India, He saw one ''brāhmin'' reading ''Bhagavad-gītā''. And persons who knew him, that "That man was illiterate," it was not possible for him to read ''Bhagavad-gītā''. But still, he was trying to read it, and crying also.

So while others were criticizing, Caitanya Mahāprabhu came to him, "''Brāhmin'', what you are reading?" So he could understand that, "This person, He's not come here to criticize me. He's serious." So he talked seriously, "Sir, I am reading ''Bhagavad-gītā''. Unfortunately, I am illiterate." Now see. He is illiterate and he is reading ''Bhagavad-gītā''?

Caitanya Mahāprabhu inquired that, "How is that, you're reading ''Bhagavad-gītā'' and you say you are illiterate?" He said: "Yes, actually I am illiterate, but my Guru Mahārāja asked me that, 'You should read every day eighteen chapters.' So what can I do? (laughter) I have to carry out the order of my spiritual master. So I have simply taken this book. I am seeing it."

Caitanya Mahāprabhu said: "Oh, you are not seeing it simply. You are crying also." "Yes, Sir, I am crying also." "Then if you are not reading, how you are crying?" "Sir, I am not reading, but I am feeling." "What is that?" "As soon as I take this ''Bhagavad-gītā'' in my hand, immediately I feel Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna sitting on the same chariot, and Arjuna is ordering Kṛṣṇa that, 'You drive my chariot between the two soldiers,' and Kṛṣṇa is driving. So I am simply feeling how Kṛṣṇa is nice, that He can work as a servant of His devotee. When I feel like that, I cry, how Kṛṣṇa is so kind." Caitanya Mahāprabhu immediately embraced him that, "You are really studying ''Bhagavad-gītā''."

So unless we develop our love for Kṛṣṇa, there is no meaning of reading. And if we can develop our love for Kṛṣṇa just like this ''brāhmin'', even without reading any book, that is wanted. That is wanted. ''Mayy āsakta-manāḥ'' ([[Vanisource:BG 7.1 (1972)|BG 7.1]]). Therefore Kṛṣṇa also confirms, ''mayy āsakta-manāḥ'', "Simply by increasing attachment for Me." ''Mayy āsakta-manāḥ pārtha yogaṁ yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ. Mad-āśrayaḥ''. ''Mad-āśrayaḥ'' means "under the direction of Me or My representative." ''Mat''.

So one who performs this ''yoga'' system, how to increase love for Kṛṣṇa, that's all, then you understand everything. The ''Vedas'', they confirm it: ''yasmin vijñāte sarvam evaṁ vijñātaṁ bhavanti'' (''Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad'' 1.3). If you simply understand Kṛṣṇa, then everything will be understood. Because Kṛṣṇa is everything. God is everything. To understand Kṛṣṇa, simply this attachment . . . ''mayy āsakta-manāḥ. Āsakti'' means attachment.

So our this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is . . . we are teaching people, our students especially, how to increase attachment for Kṛṣṇa. Why this temple? They are feeling that, "We are sitting in Kṛṣṇa's presence. Kṛṣṇa is so nicely dressed. I am dressing." Otherwise, from atheistic point of view, you see that "Why these people are bothering like this? They have taken a brass idol and wasting time after it?" They can say like that, because they have no love for Kṛṣṇa. But one who has love for Kṛṣṇa, he sees, "Kṛṣṇa is so kind. He's accepting my dressing. I am crowning. I am garlanding." That is a feeling.

So the whole process is to increase our feeling of love for Kṛṣṇa. That is required. Not anything else. Just ''gopīs''. They are not Vedāntist. They are not scholars. They are village girls, and also low class.