Lord Caitanya, summarizing the purport of the Vedic knowledge, He says that vedādi sakala śāstre kṛṣṇa-mukhya sambandha. All the Vedas, all the Vedic literature, all scripture, all over the world, all over the universe—What? What is meant? What is the purpose of the scripture? The purpose is to understand Kṛṣṇa. That's all. He is summarizing the whole thing, that "All purposes of different types of scriptures, Vedas, they are meant for realizing what is Kṛṣṇa." That's all.
Tāṅra jñāne ānuṣaṅge yāya māyā-bandha. Simply by understanding Kṛṣṇa, one becomes automatically liberated from this material entanglement. A Kṛṣṇa conscious person hasn't got to make separate endeavor and attempt to become liberated. The more you understand Kṛṣṇa, the more you become liberated, ānuṣaṅge, as a by-product.
Just see how material entanglement, this body. At any moment, at any moment you can be finished. You cannot be finished, but your all activities is.
So therefore we should be very careful, because we have to pull on with this body. Because unless you are perfectly in understanding of Kṛṣṇa, there is no release from this body. It is not that, "I want to get release myself from this body, therefore I cut my throat and I get release." No. That is not possible. You have to be completely detached from this body, and that can be possible when you come . . . when you understand at least something about Kṛṣṇa.
You cannot know Kṛṣṇa completely. That is not possible. He is unlimited. But even a little knowledge of Kṛṣṇa, preliminary knowledge of Kṛṣṇa, will make you liberated from this material entanglement. Svalpam apy asya dharmasya trāyate mahato bhayāt (BG 2.40).
So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness is so valuable that even little progress will make you liberated from this material entanglement. He is citing another nice verse from Padma Purāṇa. There are eighteen Purāṇas. Out of that, this Padma Purāṇa is one of the most important Purāṇas.
- vyāmohāya carācarasya jagatas te purāṇāgamās
- tāṁ tām eva hi devatāṁ paramikāṁ jalpantu kalpāvadhi
- siddhānte punar eka eva bhagavān viṣṇuḥ samastāgama-
- vyāpāreṣu vivecana-vyatikaraṁ nīteṣu niścīyate
- (CC Madhya 20.145)
In different Purāṇas . . . these Purāṇas are made just to complete Vedic knowledge, or supplementary addition to the Vedic literature. Because Vedic literature is very difficult to understand, therefore they have been expanded by the Purāṇas for different classes of men.
So there are three divisions of the Purāṇas: sattvika purāṇa, rājasika purāṇa and tamasika purāṇa. Sattvika purāṇa is meant for the higher class of people who are in transcendental knowledge of Brahman, Paramātmā and the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Rājasika purāṇa are meant for those who are aspiring to have improvement of material condition. And tamasika purāṇa are meant for those who are in the lowest stage of . . . little, just like animal life, and to develop them the Purāṇa is helping them to come to the second and first stage.