Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Ādi 7.107
Hear Knowledge From Authorized Sources
“The material defects of mistakes, illusions, cheating and sensory inefficiency do not exist in the words of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
What the purport teaches
- Mistakes, illusions, cheating and sensory inefficiency do not exist in the words of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- Mistakes involve accepting false knowledge, and illusion can arise from inattentive hearing. Passing defective knowledge to others is cheating.
- Our senses are imperfect and cannot provide complete knowledge. The Vedic process is to hear from an authorized person through the chain of disciplic succession.
Try this today
Read this teaching without distractions today, taking care to understand it before explaining it to someone else.
Ask yourself
Where might inattentive hearing or trust in my imperfect senses be limiting my understanding?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
The study points are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport; the practice and question are plain words for trying the verse today.