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<h3>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures</h3>
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You may be very big speaker, nice speaker, but that is not the process - simply by speaking very nicely you can understand the Absolute Truth. Neither you can understand the Absolute Truth because you have got a very nice brain, a great scientist.
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[[Vanisource:710212 - Lecture CC Madhya 06.149-50 - Gorakhpur|710212 - Lecture CC Madhya 06.149-50 - Gorakhpur]]:
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''Dehi'' means possessor of this body, the owner of this body. So owner of this body is different from this body. But in case of Kṛṣṇa or ''viṣṇu-tattva'', there is no such difference. The self and the body, no difference. That is confirmed in the ''Kūrma Purāṇa''.

Unfortunately the Māyāvādīs, they, either due to their poor fund of knowledge of the ''śāstras'' or by their whims, they say that "Kṛṣṇa or Viṣṇu, when comes, or the Absolute Truth when He descends, He assumes, He accepts, a material body." That is not a fact. Kṛṣṇa says, ''sambhavāmy ātma-māyayā'' ([[Vanisource:BG 4.6 (1972)|BG 4.6]]). It is not that Kṛṣṇa accepts a material body. No. Kṛṣṇa has no such distinction, material . . . (indistinct) . . . Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, ''avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam'' ([[Vanisource:BG 9.11 (1972)|BG 9.11]]): "Because I present Myself, descend Myself as a human being, the ''mūḍhas'', or the rascals, they think of Me or deride at Me."

The Māyāvādīs, they will never worship the transcendental form of the Lord. They'll not worship. They will worship the imperson. And Kṛṣṇa has said, ''kleśo adhikataras teṣām avyaktāsakta-cetasām'' ([[Vanisource:BG 12.5 (1972)|BG 12.5]]). Of course, impersonal, personal is the same Absolute Truth. But if you try to reach the Absolute Truth through His impersonal attachment, then it will be more troublesome.

The ''jñānīs'', those who want to understand the Absolute Truth by their material, imperfect knowledge, how . . . ''ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ'' ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.136|CC Madhya 17.136]]). Our manipulation of the senses is not possible to understand what is Kṛṣṇa.

The Vedic ''mantra'' also it is said, ''nayam ātmā pravacanena labhyaḥ'' (''Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 3.2.3''): "You cannot realize the ''ātmā'', you cannot be self-realized, simply by talking. You may be very big speaker, nice speaker, but that is not the process—simply by speaking very nicely you can understand the Absolute Truth." ''Nayam ātmā pravacanena labhya na medhayā'': "Neither you can understand the Absolute Truth because you have got a very nice brain, a great scientist." Then Sir Isaac Newton would have discovered what is God, or Professor Einstein or Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, they could have understand. No, they cannot. Because they have very nice, finer tissues of the brain, it does not mean.

It is a different process. It is a . . . to understand God, or Kṛṣṇa, it is not material process. Therefore Kṛṣṇa said, ''bhaktyā mām abhijānāti yāvān yaś cāsmi tattvataḥ'' ([[Vanisource:BG 18.55 (1972)|BG 18.55]]): only through devotional service He can be known. ''Nāhaṁ prakāśaḥ sarvasya yogamāyā-samāvṛtaḥ'' ([[Vanisource:BG 7.25 (1972)|BG 7.25]]). Kṛṣṇa is covered by the curtain drawn by ''yogamāyā''. Therefore Kṛṣṇa cannot be understood by everyone, neither His teaching, ''Bhagavad-gītā'', can be understood without becoming a devotee of Kṛṣṇa. This is not possible.

Therefore Kṛṣṇa says to Arjuna that ''bhakto 'si priyo 'si me'' ([[Vanisource:BG 4.3 (1972)|BG 4.3]]): "Because you are My very dear friend, therefore I shall speak to you." ''Rahasyaṁ hy etad uttamam'': "Without you, nobody can understand." Kṛṣṇa (Arjuna) was a military man. He was not a ''brāhmin'', neither a Vedāntist. You cannot expect a military man, a ''kṣatriya'', to be highly learned in Vedic scriptures. That is not possible.

They hear from the ''brāhmins''. The ''brāhmins'', they are expected to be highly learned scholars in ''Vedas'', because that is their department. ''Jñānaṁ vijñānam āstikyaṁ brahma-karma svabhāva-jam'' ([[Vanisource:BG 18.42 (1972)|BG 18.42]]). ''Brahma jānātīti brāhmaṇaḥ''. ''Brāhmaṇa'' . . . therefore we call ''brāhmaṇa'', "''paṇḍita''," "''paṇḍitajī''." ''Paṇḍitajī'' has never seen the pages of ''Vedas'', but still, he is going on under the name of ''paṇḍitajī''.

So that kind of ''paṇḍitajī'' not wanted. Actually a ''brāhmaṇa'' means he is truthful. And one of the greatest commentator of ''Bhagavad-gītā'', Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa, he says truthful means one should be truthful even to his enemies. Sometimes we have to hide something from the enemies. That is diplomacy. But Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa says: "A ''brāhmaṇa'' should be so truthful that he will disclose everything to his enemy also." ''Satyam''. ''Titikṣa ārjavam śuci śama dama''—these are the qualification. ''Jñānaṁ vijñānam āstikyaṁ brahma-karma svabhāva-jam'' ([[Vanisource:BG 18.42 (1972)|BG 18.42]]).