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Śrīla Prabhupāda: Once again, Vedānta means “the ultimate knowledge.” And what is that knowledge? “After many births, one who is actually in knowledge at last surrenders unto Me.” So unless one surrenders to Kṛṣṇa, there is no jñāna, no knowledge.

Therefore the Māyāvādī Vedantists are all nonsense – they have no knowledge at all. The subject matter of ultimate knowledge, Vedānta, is Kṛṣṇa, God. know who God is, who Kṛṣṇa is, and if one does not surrender to Him, then where is the question of knowledge But if a rascal claims that “I am a man of knowledge,” what can be done?

“When one understands that Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa, is everything, then that is knowledge. Before coming to this understanding, one has no knowledge. That is the ultimate knowledge. But if you do not understand Kṛṣṇa, then where is your knowledge? Half-way knowledge is not knowledge. It must be complete knowledge.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda, are you saying that the Māyāvādīs have no knowledge at all?

That complete knowledge is possible, as it is said in the Bhagavad-gītā, bahūnāṁ janmanām ante – after Those who are striving to acquire knowledge – after many, many births, when actually by the grace of God and by the grace of a devotee they come to knowledge, then such persons agree, “Oh, vāsudevaḥ sarvam

And because people are not educated, they’re accepting these rascals as Vedantists.

Veda means “knowledge,” and anta means “goal” or ”end.” So Vedānta means “the end of all knowledge, or veda.”

in this Kali-yuga people would not be able to study Vedānta-sūtra nicely on account of a lack of education

Those who approach the Māyāvādī Vedantists for knowledge are also rascals.

Yet how is it that Vedantic teachings, with their accent on jñāna [cultivation of knowledge], are being

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam as the real explanation of Vedānta-sūtra, then we will understand Vedānta, the end of knowledge