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Knowledge through Service

souls who have implicit faith in both the Lord and the spiritual master, all the imports of Vedic knowledge enjoin, tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigacchet: one must approach a spiritual master who has full knowledge Then the knowledge of the Vedas will be revealed. When the Vedic knowledge is revealed, one need no longer remain in the darkness of material nature.

How service to the Lord and the spiritual master results in Vedic knowledge is described in the Śvetāśvatara

A person who does not have Vedic knowledge always acts in ignorance of what he has done in the past, This light is Vedic knowledge, which one can understand when one is elevated to the mode of goodness

There must be a class of intelligent men, the brāhmaṇas, who are qualified to disseminate Vedic knowledge

A human being must be educated to rise above this platform, to understand his past life and how he can