Hearing transcendental knowledge from realized authorities liberates even the ignorant from repetitive birth and death.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 13.26 — October 25, 1973, Bombay 731025BG-BOMBAY [27:41 Minutes] Bg-13.26_731025BG-BOMBAY Pradyumna: Translation: "Again there are those who, although not conversant in spiritual knowledge, begin to worship the Supreme Person upon hearing about Him from others. Because of their tendency to hear from authorities, they also transcend the path of birth and death." [Bg. 13.26] [loud sounds of firecrackers throughout]
Prabhupāda: So, again Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is stressing on the point how to avoid death. This is the whole scheme of Vedic knowledge, janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam [Bg. 13.9]. But people have no knowledge. They have become just like animal.
Animal, you take them to the slaughterhouse, they cannot do anything. They are becoming slaughtered. So people at the present moment, they are also being slaughtered by the laws of nature. But they do not know, as the animals do not know how to protect.
They do not know. The animal thinks that "What can be done? I must be slaughtered." So the present civilization also given to the laws of nature, being carried away by the waves of nature, and subjected to the repetition of birth, death, old age and disease. No scientist can stop it.
But still, they are very much proud of advancement. They do not know the real problem and how to solve it, but still, they are very much proud. Actual problem is this. So even they do not know, they can hear.
Just we are opening centers all over the world—why? Just to give them the chance to hear. To hear. If people only come to these centers, these centers of spiritual knowledge, Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, hear the Bhagavad-gītā as it is, without any so-called scholastic interpretation, all rascal, as it is, then they also can derive the benefit, so much so that they can also stop their repetition of birth, death and old age.
It is so nice thing. Anye. Anye means general public, not very important men. Anye. Anye tu evam ajānantaḥ.