decoration of a dead body

So if you want to become philosopher, then philosophically you try to understand what is brahma-tattva, what is paramatma-tattva, what is bhagavan-tattva. Etaj jnanam, this is jnana, not these degrees, M.A., Ph.D. These are all decoration of the dead body. If you do not understand what is the value of life, you do not understand what is tattva, what is Brahman, what is Paramatma, what is God; if you do not become cleansed, if you do not become a devotee, as they are stated; if you have no acarya, you have no guru, then you are in darkness, Krsna concludes here. Etaj jnanam, "All these items described, this is jnanam." Iti proktam. It is accepted, proktam. Ajnanam yad ato 'nyatha: "And just any other thing except these..., besides these things, they are ajnanam."    (More...)