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But in this material world, either in the modes of ignorance or in the modes of passion or in the …

Just like at the present moment—not present moment; always—people are engaged in the matter of economic development for sense gratification. …

Just like today one of our student, he had been to some doctor for some personal business. He had some …

Now, seven hundred years before, people were dying. Death was there. So has the advancement of material science during the …

If we materially calculate that... Practically, the major questions which are embarrassing us, janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi [Bg 13.9]...

[Humility, pridelessness, nonviolence, tolerance, simplicity, approaching a bona fide spiritual master, cleanliness, steadiness and self-control; renunciation of the objects of …

We are embarrassed with the material miseries of life. That has not been solved. The major questions have been set …

So therefore, ajñānena āvṛtaṁ jñānam. This is, this sort of advancement of knowledge in the material science, is also another …

jñānena tu tad ajñānaṁ yeṣāṁ nāśitam ātmanaḥ teṣām ādityavaj jñānaṁ prakāśayati tat param

[Bg 5.16]

[When, however, one is enlightened with the knowledge by which nescience is destroyed, then his knowledge reveals everything, as the …

Tat param. This tat param word is very significant. Tat param means "in relationship with the Supreme Lord." That is …

So jñānena tu ajñānaṁ teṣāṁ nāśitam ātmanaḥ. Any person who has advanced in the spiritual knowledge, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then his..., …

tad-buddhayas tad-ātmānas tan-niṣṭhās tat-parāyaṇāḥ gacchanty apunar-āvṛttiṁ jñāna-nirdhūta-kalmaṣāḥ

[Bg 5.17]

[When one's intelligence, mind, faith and refuge are all fixed in the Supreme, then one becomes fully cleansed of misgivings …

If actually we can advance in the spiritual knowledge of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then tad-buddhayaḥ, by that intelligence, tad-ātmānaḥ, being identified …

Punar-āvṛttiṁ jñāna-nirdhūta-kalmaṣāḥ. How that position can be attained? Now, jñāna-nirdhūta-kalmaṣāḥ. Kalmaṣāḥ means reactions of sinful activities, that is called kalmaṣāḥ. …

vidyā-vinaya-sampanne brāhmaṇe gavi hastini śuni caiva śva-pāke ca paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ

[Bg 5.18]