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This pure consciousness is awakened by the proper spiritual education and practice offered scientifically

Śravaṇam, or hearing, is the first step in acquiring transcendental knowledge.

“Those miscreants who are grossly foolish, lowest among mankind, whose knowledge is stolen by illusion

The self-realized souls can impart knowledge unto you because they have seen the truth.”

Although one may be accepted as a jñānī, or one advanced in knowledge, his knowledge is considered impure

Real atonement involves coming to real knowledge, and for this there is a standard process. A human being is meant to be trained according to certain principles to revive his original knowledge One can be gradually elevated to the standard of real knowledge, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, by practicing

In the śāstra it is said that of all types of fruitive workers, he who is advanced in knowledge of the Out of many such people who are advanced in knowledge [jñānīs], one who is practically liberated by virtue of his knowledge may take to devotional service.

Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura writes in his Anuvṛtti commentary that too much endeavor to acquire knowledge simply interested in possessing more and more material things – either in the shape of scientific knowledge

Thus this method of submissively receiving transcendental confidential knowledge is not merely based

“After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the

By taking such instructions from higher authorities, one can actually become situated in perfect knowledge

In the śāstra it is said that of all types of fruitive workers, he who is advanced in knowledge Out of many such people who are advanced in knowledge [jñānīs], one who is practically liberated by virtue of his knowledge may take to devotional service.

According to Bhagavad-gītā, because they are bereft of all factual knowledge due to their atheistic way

It is the life of all transcendental knowledge.

“A person whose conclusive knowledge of the śāstras is not very strong but who has developed firm faith

existence and loses interest in the bodily conception of life, including material opulence, material knowledge

em>vyaktim yayuḥ – it is said in the śāstra; jñāninaḥ – those advanced in knowledge ; tebhyaḥ – superior to them; jñāna-vimukta – liberated by knowledge; bhakti-paramāḥ

In this regard Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura remarks that the cultivation of knowledge by philosophical

Among the karmīs are some vikarmīs, people who act without the guidance of Vedic knowledge. Those who act on the basis of Vedic knowledge perform sacrifices for the satisfaction of Lord Viṣṇu and

people who are wasting their time simply gratifying their senses, one may come to the platform of knowledge