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Prabhupāda:

om ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ

[Gautamīya Tantra]

[I offer my respectful obeisances unto my spiritual master, who with the torchlight of knowledge has opened my eyes, which …

[aside:] It is recording?

The meaning of this verse... It is offering obeisances to the spiritual master. The spiritual master opens the eyes of …

Our Vedic process is not research work. Just like in the mundane scholarship, one has to show his academic career …

We are conditioned. At this stage of our material existence, we are conditioned by so many laws of nature. Under …

Just like in our country there was Mahatma Gandhi. He was supposed to be a very great personality, mahātmā, but …

So in the conditioned state of our life, committing mistake is very natural. Just like we say, "To err is …

So to commit mistake; to become illusioned, number two; and number three: a cheating propensity. Everyone, conditioned soul, thinks himself …

He'll say, "Oh, you are my great friend. I am not taking a farthing profit from you." But you must …

So to commit mistake, to be illusioned, and cheating propensity, and at last, imperfectness of the senses. Our senses are …

Therefore Vedic process does not accept that one should endeavor to know the ultimate truth by exertion of our present …

As soon as you study Bhagavad-gītā by your academic knowledge, without reference to the authoritative description, then you commit mistake; …

So all Vedic literature, not only Bhagavad-gītā, all the Vedas... There are four Vedas: Sāma, Yajur, Ṛg, Atharva. Then there …

In this way there are various Vedic literatures. And if you are interested... You should be interested. These Vedic literatures …

So I shall try to speak before you this evening one of the instruction of Vedic literature spoken by Ṛṣabhadeva. …

[I offer my respectful obeisances unto my spiritual master, who with the torchlight of knowledge has opened my eyes, which …

"The personality who opens the eyes by the torch of knowledge." Tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ: "I offer my respectful obeisances unto …