How they will understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead by mental speculation? They will conclude naturally, "Imperson." That's all. It is not possible for them. Only the devotees, they can understand what is the actual identification of the Absolute Truth. Yasyehitaṁ na viduḥ spṛṣṭa-māyāḥ sattva-pradhānā api kiṁ tato 'nye. What others can do it?
So, yasya ca līlā durvibhavya ity aham iti vādyam. Na spṛṣṭaṁ rajas-tamaṁ ye iti tam abhyehi pretam ceṣṭitaṁ vā na viduḥ. Although they are freed from the contamination of the lower-grade qualities, still they could not understand, although there is possibility. There is possibility. Sattva-guṇa-pradhānāḥ. The brāhmiṇs . . . it is for the brāhmiṇs. By quality, they can understand to some extent. Brahma jānāti iti brāhmaṇaḥ. He has to become a Vaiṣṇava. Simply brahminical qualification will not help him. That is the greatest qualification within this material world. But still, he has to surpass that . . .
Just like postgraduate. The brāhmiṇs may be graduate. Others, they are not graduate. They are, say, ISA matriculate, like that. But even the brāhmiṇa has to become . . . that is also stated. Ṣaṭ-karma-nipuṇo vipraḥ, nipuṇa, mantra-tantra-viśāradaḥ. A brāhmiṇa, his qualification is that he knows what is his business.
And that business is ṣaṭ-karma. Ṣaṭ-karma means a brāhmaṇa has to become very learned. Paṭhana. He must be a serious student of Vedic religion. That is first qualification. Veda-pāṭhād bhaved vipraḥ. And unless he has studied all these Vedic literatures, and he remains a fool, that is . . . immediately he is disqualified.
So paṭhana-pāṭhana. Not that he would simply take advantage of the knowledge without distributing it. Therefore a brāhmiṇ's business is to distribute the knowledge. Just like yesterday we saw. There is a small school. That's a very nasty condition. But this is the business of the brāhmiṇs. In the village a brāhmiṇ would sit down, and the village boys and girls would come there to learn from him, and they will bring some presentation. That will be his livelihood. A brāhmiṇ hasn't got to go anywhere to seek his livelihood. So therefore paṭhana-pāṭhana, he should be himself very learned scholar, and he should try to make others also like him.
Paṭhana-pāṭhana yajana-yājana. He should also worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and he should try to induce others to come to that position. Paṭhana-pāṭhana yajana-yājana dāna-pratigraha. The brāhmiṇ is offered donation. That is the system. But he not should keep it for his personal . . . as soon as he gets donation, he spends for some service of the Lord. Even a brāhmaṇa gets one lakh of rupees, next morning he is still a beggar, because he does not keep anything for tomorrow. Everything depending on Kṛṣṇa, and he spends money like that.
Paṭhana-pāṭhana yajana-yājana dāna-pratigraha. The brāhmana is, I mean to say, allowed. A brāhmaṇa is allowed to take charity from others—a sannyāsī and a brāhmiṇ. No other is allowed. Nowadays it has come, daridra-nārāyaṇa. Daridra. "The poor man become Nārāyaṇa, therefore he should be served." This nonsensical theory has come out by some nonsense. But actually a qualified brāhmiṇ should be given charity.
A sannyāsī, Vaiṣṇava, should be given charity. That is sāttvika charity. And rājasika charity means to open hospital, schools. These are rājasika charity. And tāmasika charity means without any discrimination; a Bowery man given one rupee and immediately purchase a bottle of wine. So this is tāmasika charity. By tāmasika charity, one is degraded.