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Prabhupāda:

kevala jñāna 'mukti' dite nāre bhakti vine kṛṣṇonmukhe sei mukti haya jñāna vinā

[Cc. Madhya 22.21]

[Speculative knowledge alone, without devotional service, is not able to give liberation. On the other hand, even without knowledge one …

Mukti, liberation... The impersonalists think that simply by cultivating knowledge that "I am not matter; I am spirit," or "I …

The impersonalists think that "I am one with the Supreme. Now, due to my ignorance, I have forgotten that I …

So this is the theory of the impersonalist. But they... They cannot give any answer that "Why you have become …

So there is no answer for this question from the impersonalists' school. But real fact is that the Supreme never …

So Lord Caitanya says that "Simply by thinking that 'I am not this matter; I am spirit soul, ahaṁ brahmāsmi, …

Therefore they are entangled. That is the real fact. And as such, we find from the Bhagavad-gītā, the Lord asked …

[Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not …

So therefore, unless there is surrender of the individual soul to the Supreme, there is no question of liberation. There …

That is the attitude, everywhere we can see actually. Everyone is: "Oh, what is God? What is God?" especially in …

Now He gives again evidence from scriptures. Every step, whatever He says, He gives some evidence from authoritative scripture. Mostly …

Bhāgavata is the natural commentary on the Vedānta-sūtra. Therefore one who has sufficient knowledge in Bhāgavata, he has automatically sufficient …

So Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, although the Vaiṣṇavas, they have got their commentaries on Vedānta-sūtra, but this Caitanya Mahāprabhu's sampradāya, they did not …

Because their spiritual master has had already made a commentary on the Vedānta-sūtra, "Oh, that is sufficient. Why should we …

Now, so far in confirmation of this statement that knowledge, cultivation of knowledge, is not sufficient to give one liberation—one …

teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ bhajatāṁ prīti-pūrvakam dadāmi buddhi-yogaṁ taṁ yena mām upayānti te

[Bg. 10.10]