Perfect knowledge comes only from Bhagavan through His authorized representative, the guru.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.1 — December 13, 1974, Bombay 741213SB-BOMBAY [36:55 Minutes] SB-03.26.01_741213SB-BOMBAY Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] śrī-bhagavān uvāca atha te sampravakṣyāmi tattvānāṁ lakṣaṇaṁ pṛthak yad viditvā vimucyeta puruṣaḥ prākṛtair guṇaiḥ [SB 3.26.1] [break] [01:09] "The Personality of Godhead, Kapila, continued: My dear mother, now I shall describe unto you the different categories of the Absolute Truth, knowing which any person can be released from the influence of the modes of material nature." Prabhupāda: atha te sampravakṣyāmi tattvānāṁ lakṣaṇaṁ pṛthak yad viditvā vimucyeta puruṣaḥ prākṛtair guṇaiḥ [SB 3.26.1] This is the disease.
This is called material disease. One is infected by the prākṛta-guṇa. The prākṛta-guṇa... Guṇa means quality, mode.
So prākṛta means this material prakṛti, and spiritual means aprākṛta. There are different stages of knowledge: pratyakṣa, parokṣa, aparokṣa, adhokṣaja, aprākṛta. One has to go step by step. General knowledge means pratyakṣa, whatever we perceive by the senses.
That is called pratyakṣa. And the knowledge which you receive from authorities, that is parokṣa. Then aparokṣa, realization. Then adhokṣaja.
Adhokṣaja means knowledge which beyond your perception. But there is source of knowledge, adhokṣaja. Therefore God's another name is Adhokṣaja. Adhaḥ.
Adhaḥ means subduing, bring under subjugation. Adhah-kṛta, akṣaja. Akṣaja means the knowledge directly perceived by the senses. Akṣa means eyes, and akṣa means atukya[?].
So any knowledge within the alphabets, A-B-C-D, that is called akṣaja. And the knowledge which is beyond that, that is called adhokṣaja. And beyond the adhokṣaja knowledge there is aprākṛta, aprākṛta knowledge. So the prākṛta-guṇa... So long we are in this material world, infected by the material qualities, sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa, tamo-guṇa, that is prākṛta life, not aprākṛta.