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jñānaṁ niḥśreyasārthāya puruṣasyātma-darśanam yad āhur varṇaye tat te hṛdaya-granthi-bhedanam

[SB 3.26.2]

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"Knowledge is the ultimate perfection of self-realization. I shall explain that knowledge unto you by which the knots of attachment …

Prabhupāda:

jñānaṁ niḥśreyasārthāya puruṣasyātma-darśanam yad āhur varṇaye tat te hṛdaya-granthi-bhedanam

[SB 3.26.2]

What is jñāna, knowledge? We have got... Jñāna means consciousness, or living symptoms. That is jñāna. Cetana. Cetana, ce..., nityo …

Just like within the earth you have seen, you go to the beach, you'll find within the sand there are …

So this human life is after many, many evolutionary process. We have forgotten that. So this life is meant for …

So this is not knowledge. Knowledge is different thing. Knowledge means jñānaṁ niḥśreyasārthāya puruṣasya ātma-darśanam. That is knowledge. Atma-darśanam, self-realization. …

Nitāi: Bhāgavata dāsa.

Prabhupāda: Bhāgavata dāsa. So they might be very advanced in scientific knowledge, but the ultimate aim is how to eat. …

So they are taking the advancement of knowledge in this way. But the Vedic scripture says that jñānaṁ niḥśreyasārthāya: to …

mām upetya kaunteya duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ saṁsiddhiṁ paramam gataḥ

[Bg. 8.15]

This is highest perfection, Kṛṣṇa says. All śāstra, it says like that, and the whole Vedic literature is meant for …

So we have to take knowledge from Vedic, Vedic scripture. Then the description of the spiritual world is there. What …

So in the spiritual world, the houses are made of touchstone, cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu, cintāmaṇi, the touchstone. Sanskrit name is cintāmaṇi. Cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu …

Lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr..., and surabhīr abhipālayantam [Bs. 5.29]. There Kṛṣṇa is very fond of cows. There is Kṛṣṇa's another name is …