Nārada Muni says if these symptoms are found elsewhere . . . yad anyatrāpi dṛśyeta. Suppose a śūdra, or a vaiśya, but he has got the qualification, symptoms, of a brāhmin, so he should be accepted as brāhmin, not as śūdra, as vaiśya. Similarly, a person born in brāhmin family, if he has got the symptoms of a śūdra, he should be accepted as śūdra. This is the injunction in the śāstras. And Śrīdhara Svāmī, he says that simply taking birth in some particular family, brāhmin family or kṣatriya family, one does not become so. It is the qualification. That is required.
So Bhagavad-gītā also . . . it is Vedic literature, spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself. Veda apauruṣeya. Veda means the knowledge given by God, Kṛṣṇa. First the knowledge was given to Brahmā. Tene brahma hṛdā ādi-kavaye (SB 1.1.1). Brahmā received the knowledge from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vedic knowledge. Therefore it is called apauruṣeya. It is not writ . . . Veda does not mean it is written by some ordinary man, as we write some books. No. It is not like that. Apauruṣeya. Coming directly.
So similarly, the Bhagavad-gītā is also coming directly from Kṛṣṇa. Therefore it is Vedas. Vedānta-vid Vedānta-kṛd ca aham. Kṛṣṇa says, in the Fifteenth Chapter, that:
- sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi-sanniviṣṭo
- mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanaṁ ca
- vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyo
- Vedānta-kṛd Vedānta-vid eva cāham
- (BG 15.15)
He is actually the Vedānta, compiler of Vedānta, Vedānta-sūtra, the most important philosophical thesis—not thesis, but actually. So Kṛṣṇa knows what is Vedānta. And what He says, that is Vedānta. Veda, Veda means knowledge. Anta, anta means the last word. So what is the last word of Vedānta? Last word is to know the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Vedaiś ca sarvaiḥ. Not only Vedānta-sūtra, but also all the Vedas. Sāma, Yajur, Atharva, Ṛk, the ultimate objective is Kṛṣṇa, to know Kṛṣṇa. Vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyaḥ (BG 15.15), Kṛṣṇa says.
So Bhagavad-gītā is also Vedānta because the Supreme Person, who spoke Vedānta, as . . . as Vyāsadeva, incarnation of Nārāyaṇa. So Nārāyaṇa and Kṛṣṇa, the same, identical. So therefore incarnation of Nārāyaṇa, Vyāsadeva, wrote Vedānta-sūtra. Therefore Kṛṣṇa knows what is Vedānta. And if we accept Kṛṣṇa as He's saying, that . . . then we become actually vedāntī. Not artificially.