One has to go back to home, back to Godhead. That is the perfection of life. This human life should be utilized for going back to home, back to... But they have no idea. They do not know what is God, where is back to home, back to Godhead -- nothing, no education, although the knowledge is there in the Bhagavad-gita and other sastras. Everything is there, but we have become so fools that we take Bhagavad-gita and comment in a different way so that people may not understand. He does not understand himself, and how he'll explain? Naham prakasah sarvasya yoga-maya-samavrtah [Bg. 7.25]. Because without becoming a devotee, nobody can understand Bhagavad-gita. That's a fact. So they, one may be very good scholar, ABCD, but the ABCD knowledge is not sufficient to understand. Bhakto 'si priyo 'si me rahasyam hy etad uttamam [Bg. 4.3]. Simply by erudite scholarship you cannot understand. Then Krsna would have selected somebody else who is scholarly advanced. But He was selecting Arjuna, although he was a soldier. He was not a Vedantist, he was not a brahmana, but he was ordinary soldier. Maybe royal family. Grhastha. But He selected him. Why? Bhakto 'si: because he was devotee. Therefore Bhagavad-gita is to be understood by devotee from the very beginning.
By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
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