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Imported quote 18023 Therefore two sampradayas, the Mayavadi sampradaya and the Vaisnava sampradaya, both of them have explained the Brahma-sūtra. Otherwise, they are not authority. Without understanding Brahma-sūtra, nobody can understand what is Brahman. Therefore here it is said that Vidura understood the anviksikyam, transcendental knowledge, from Maitreya. Who is Maitreya? Dvaipayana-sakha. He's the friend. That means he has association with Vyasadeva. Just like friend and friend, the one friend knows the other friend, what is his position, what is his knowledge. So Maitreya was friend of Vyasadeva. That means he knows what Vyasadeva knows. So we have to approach such spiritual master or instructor who is in disciplic succession of Vyasadeva. Vyasadeva. Everyone claims that "We are also following Vyasadeva." But not superficially. Actually following Vyasadeva. Just like Vyasadeva accepted Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When Arjuna said, param brahma param dhama pavitram paramam bhavan [Bg 10.12], he accepted Krsna as the Para-brahman, the Supreme Person. So one may say that "Arjuna was friend of Krsna; he might have accepted like that." No. He gave evidence that "Vyasadeva also accepts You. Vyasadeva also accepts You, 'You are the Para-brahman.' " Vyasadeva begins the comments on Vedanta-sūtra: om namo bhagavate vasudevaya. He begins, janmady asya yataḥ, param satyam dhimahi.
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