honey bottle

"In other words, such a faithful devotee of the Lord attains perfection, and this is confirmed by the following Vedic assertion: tam eva viditvati mrtyum eti nanyaḥ pantha vidyate 'yanaya [Svetasvatara Upanisad 3.8]. One can attain the perfect stage of liberation from birth and death simply by knowing the Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. There is no alternative, because anyone who does not understand Lord Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead is surely in the mode of ignorance. Consequently, he will not attain salvation simply, so to speak, by licking the outer surface of the bottle of honey, or by interpreting the Bhagavad-gita according to mundane scholarship. Such empiric philosophers may assume very important roles in the material world, but they are not necessarily eligible for liberation. Such puffed-up mundane scholars have to wait for the causeless mercy of the devotee of the Lord. One should therefore cultivate Krsna consciousness with faith and knowledge, and in this way attain perfection."    (More...)

We have several times discussed this point that the so-called scholars, politicians and philosophers, they read Bhagavad-gita and comment in a different way. This is their foolishness. They cannot understand Bhagavad-gita. It is not possible. My Guru Maharaja used to say, "It is just like licking the bottle of honey." Now you want honey. I give you one bottle, but you do not know how to taste it. You began to lick up the bottle. So what you will taste? If you think, "Here is the bottle of honey. Let me lick," you will not get any taste. It must be opened. But the opening key is with the devotee. You do not know how to open it. Therefore it is said, satam prasahgan mama virya-samvido bhavanti hrt-karna-rasayanaḥ [SB 3.25.35]. The devotees know how to open it, the bottle. And then they can taste. Therefore, sabhajayante yatra paurusani.    (More...)

So those who have got..., developed love of Godhead, they can hear. As it is said in the Bhagavad-gita, Krsna says that "I am speaking to you the old message, Bhagavad-gita, which I spoke to sun-god some millions of years ago." So "Why You are speaking to me? I am not a Vedantist. I am not a sannyasi. I am not any advance in spiritual understanding." People may say. But Krsna says, "Yes. You are My bhakta." Bhakto 'si. Therefore to understand Bhagavad-gita means one has to become first of all a bhakta. The so-called nondevotee, atheist class, scholar and politician, they cannot understand. It is not possible. They cannot enter into it. The same thing, licking up the honey bottle, that's all. What you will taste? It is not possible. Therefore Krsna says,    (More...)

The same example can be... You can go to a person who knows how to open the bottle of honey. Then you can taste. Otherwise, if you simply lick up the book, Bhagavad-gita, becoming a very big scholar, you will never taste it. You will never taste it. You can satisfy yourself, "Now I am licking up daily Bhagavad-gita, thrice," but what you will understand unless you are a devotee? You will not understand. The bottle is packed up.    (More...)