If we want to be in knowledge of everything, then the Vedic instruction is that tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigaccet (MU 1.2.12): one has to approach guru. So guru means authority. So there are, originally . . . original guru is Kṛṣṇa, as Kṛṣṇa is teaching to Arjuna. Similarly, He also taught Brahmā. Tene brahma hṛdā ādi-kavaye. That is the statement in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Janmādy asya yataḥ anvayād itarataś ca artheṣu abhijñaḥ svarāṭ (SB 1.1.1). That should be the subject matter of research work.
Where is the original source of creation? Janmādy asya yataḥ—from where janma, sthiti and pralaya is taking place. That we have got experience. Janma, we have taken our birth at a certain date. This body is born. The sthiti . . . we stay. This body will run on for some years, ten years, twenty years, fifty years, according to the body. Then it will be finished. So wherefrom this body came and where, after finishing, where it goes?
There are so many scientific laws, conservation of energy. So who is that conservation or the source of energy? That is stated in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam: janmādy asya yataḥ (SB 1.1.1). There is source. It is not blind. Just like these rascals think it has come out of nothing. How something can come out of nothing? There is no proof, but they claim like that.
Therefore they are blind. No. Bhāgavatam says, janmādy asya yataḥ anvayād itarataś cārtheṣu abhijñaḥ (SB 1.1.1): the original source from whom everything has come and in whom everything is existing and within whom everything will enter. Yato vā imāni bhūtāni jāyante (Taittirīya Upaniṣad 3.1). These are the Vedic instructions.
So what is the nature of that thing wherefrom things are coming, emanating, things are existing, and again, after being finished, it is entering? Prakṛtiṁ yānti māmikām (BG 9.7). In the Bhagavad-gītā Kṛṣṇa says: "The prakṛti enters into Me." So they do not know. So what is that source? Therefore Bhāgavatam says that that supreme source is janmādy asya yataḥ anvayād itarataś cārtheṣu abhijñaḥ. Abhijña means completely conscious. Jña. Jña means knowledge. So abhijña. Abhi means specifically jña. Not like our's knowledge. We do not know. We have no sufficient knowledge wherefrom I have come, where I shall go after death. That we do not know. Therefore we are not abhijña. But the supreme source is abhijña. He's not a stone, void. No. How He can be?
Such a nice creation. Everyone can appreciate this created cosmic manifestation, how it is nicely working. The sun is rising exactly in time, without any division, even one ten-thousandth part of a second. The moon is rising, the seasons are changing. In the season, the fruits and flowers coming. So in this way the whole cosmic manifestation is going on very orderly, systematically. Everyone can understand that. So unless there is some abhijña, very clever brain who knows everything, how it is created? But they say that it has come out of nothing. What is this nonsense?
Can such thing come out of nothing? Is that very good reasoning? No. Bhāgavatam says no. It is coming from the person who is abhijña, very experienced. And that abhijñaḥ, tene . . . janmādy asya yataḥ anvayād itarataś cārtheṣu abhijñaḥ tene (SB 1.1.1). Tene means He broadcasted knowledge. To whom? Ādi-kavaye. Ādi-kavaye, the original creature.
The Brahmā is the original creature. Therefore he has got contact with the original source. He has got his original source how he receives knowledge. Because we have got understanding that we get knowledge from another person when we are face to face. But Brahmā was alone. How he got the knowledge?
That is explained in the Bhāgavatam: tene brahma hṛdā. Hṛdā means through the heart. Because the Supreme Person, Paramātmā, is also within the heart. So although Brahmā was alone, he was getting the knowledge, dictation, from the Supreme. Tene brahma. Brahma means knowledge. Brahma means Veda. The Vedic knowledge was given to him first. Tene brahma hṛdā.
The Vedic knowledge is given to everyone, because Kṛṣṇa is in everyone's heart. Sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭaḥ (BG 15.15). He's sitting in everyone's heart. But one must be qualified to receive the knowledge. Kṛṣṇa is helping us from within. He is giving us knowledge from within. Without also. So without, He's spiritual master. And within He's Supersoul, caitya-guru. In this way, we are getting knowledge.
So Brahmā is getting knowledge from Kṛṣṇa, and Brahmā is distributing Vedic knowledge. Therefore he's authority. We, we belong to the Brahma-sampradāya, our this Caitanya Mahāprabhu's sampradāya. There are four sampradāyas: one from Brahmā; one from Śrī, Lakṣmī; one from Śambhu, Lord Śiva; and one from Kumāra. Kumāraḥ kapilo manuḥ. So there are four Vaiṣṇava sampradāyas. So we have to approach the authoritative representative of Brahmā, Kṛṣṇa. Then we can get the real knowledge.