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Out of sheer misunderstanding, some transcendentalists think that knowledge and renunciation are necessary The cultivation of knowledge and the renunciation of fruitive activities may be necessary for understanding The results of knowledge and fruitive activities are liberation and material sense gratification, respectively One who is freed from bondage to the results of knowledge and fruitive activities can be situated in does not have to make a special effort to acquire the good qualities which result from cultivating knowledge

The processes of speculative knowledge and renunciation are not chief items for elevation in devotional Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (11.20.31), the Lord Himself says that there is no necessity of cultivating speculative knowledge

The cultivation of knowledge, renunciation or meditation may be a little helpful in the beginning, but In other words, devotional service can be discharged independently of the cultivation of knowledge and

necessary to form some association for Kṛṣṇa consciousness and live together for the cultivation of knowledge

Therefore it is our duty to believe His words, and if we are intelligent enough and educated enough,

service to Me and whose mind is fixed on Me, it is neither practical nor necessary to cultivate knowledge