Bhugarbha, August 5, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm): He says Christianity says the same thing. Not the Christianity of today, but original Christianity said the same thing.
Prabhupada: Anandamayo ’bhyasat. This is the Vedanta. We are, as spirit soul, being part and parcel of the Supreme, ananda is our goal, ananda, blissfulness. But that blissfulness, you cannot get simply by understanding sat-cit. You must come to the platform of ananda. That is Krishna.
So because these so-called jnanis, they do not get ananda, they do not have the entrance into the ananda platform, they come to this material ananda, this material pleasure. Therefore they take to this hospitality or opening a school or philanthropic work, another type of this material pleasure. Therefore Sankaracarya recommended:
bhaja govindam bhaja govindam bhaja govindam mudha-mate prapte sannihite kale na hi na hi raksati dukrn karane
Your simply this grammatical jugglery of words will not help you. Bhaja govindam. Therefore we, govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami. We, our principle is to worship Govinda the adi-purusa, tam aham bhajami. So without coming to that stage, perfection is not complete.
Partial, the sac-cid-ananda, the brahma-anubhuti is partial, sat. “I am not matter. I am not destructible. I am eternal.” This is sat. And cit, knowledge, full knowledge about spiritual… But ananda you have to come to the third stage, brahmeti paramatmeti bhagavan iti.
vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvam yaj jnanam advayam brahmeti paramatmeti bhagavan iti sabdyate [Bhag. 1.2.11]
So we have to come to the stage of understanding Bhagavan, otherwise knowledge is imperfect. Jnana-karmady-anavrtam [Madhya 19.167]. Bhakti is defined by Rupa Gosvami, jnana- karmady-anavrta, above jnana stage. Jnana, karma, karma stage, jnana stage, above them. Untouched by jnana.
Karma is material and jnana is marginal between material and spiritual. So you have to go above that, karma jnana, then it is bhakti stage.
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