Krishna consciousness is an exact science accessible only through complete surrender to a bona fide spiritual master.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.20 — July 24, 1974, New York 740724SB-NEW YORK [30:43 Minutes] SB-01.02.20_740724SB-NEW YORK Nitāi: [leads chanting of verse] [devotees repeat] evaṁ prasanna-manaso bhagavad-bhakti-yogataḥ bhagavat-tattva-vijñānaṁ mukta-saṅgasya jāyate [SB 1.2.20] [break] "Thus established in the mode of goodness, the man rejuvenated by loving service to the Lord gains liberation from material association, mukti, and comes to know scientifically of the Personality of Godhead." Prabhupāda: evaṁ prasanna-manaso bhagavad-bhakti-yogataḥ bhagavat-tattva-vijñānaṁ mukta-saṅgasya jāyate [SB 1.2.20] Bhagavat-tattva-vijñānaṁ. It is not sentiment; it is vijñāna. Vijñāna means science. To become a devotee does not mean a sentimentalist.
Sentimentalist has no value. One who had… There is sentiment. That is emotional sentiment in the… Just like this child is dancing. It is not sentiment—he has no sentiment—but he is dancing from the spiritual awakening.
This dancing is not dog’s dancing. This is… One who is feeling love of Godhead, he is dancing. The more one feels love of Godhead, he can dance, he can chant, he can cry. There are so many..., eight kinds of aṣṭa-sāttvika-vikāra [Cc. Antya 14.99]: transformation of the body, tears in the eyes. So bhagavat-tattva-vijñānaṁ. jñānaṁ parama-guhyaṁ me yad vijñāna-samanvitam [SB 2.9.31] Kṛṣṇa said to Brahmā, jñānaṁ me parama-guhyaṁ. To know about Kṛṣṇa, it is very, very confidential. It is not ordinary thing. Vijñāna.
Therefore many scientists, they are also joining our movement. Many Doctor of Philosophy, Chemistry, they are understanding this is a science, and the more you make propaganda, I mean, the higher circle of the society, the learned scholars, professors, scientists, philosophers, they will join. And for them we have got so many books. We have proposal to publish eighty books.
Out of them, we have published about fourteen books. So it is a science. Otherwise, why Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam has devoted eighteen thousand verses for understanding? Hmm? In the beginning of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is said, dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavo 'tra [SB 1.1.2], that cheating, sentimentalism, the so-called religious system, is projjhita, is kicked out.
There is no such place here in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Projjhita. Just like you brush something with broomstick or something and throw away the dust, similarly, the dusty things, so-called sentimental religionism, is not here in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. It is a science.
Parama-guhyaṁ: very confidential. To understand Kṛṣṇa is not ordinary thing. Kṛṣṇa says, manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye yatatām api siddhānāṁ kaścin vetti māṁ tattvataḥ [Bg. 7.3] So this truth is understandable through the…, through Kṛṣṇa or through Kṛṣṇa’s representative. In Bhagavad-gītā Kṛṣṇa says, mayy āsakta-manāḥ pārtha yogaṁ yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ [Bg. 7.1] Mad-āśrayaḥ.