Perfect knowledge comes only from the perfect source—Krishna—enabling liberation through recognizing one's eternal dependence on God.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 7.2 — October 28, 1975, Nairobi 751028BG-NAIROBI [59:27 Minutes] BG-07.02_751028BG-NAIROBI Prabhupāda: jñānaṁ te 'haṁ sa-vijñānam idaṁ vakṣyāmy aśeṣataḥ yaj jñātvā neha bhūyo 'nyaj jñātavyam avaśiṣyate [Bg. 7.2] Jñānam, knowledge. Kṛṣṇa says to Arjuna that "I am giving you perfect knowledge." This is our process. We receive knowledge from the perfect person. There is no use getting knowledge from imperfect person.
That is useless waste of time. And who is perfect person? Who does not commit any mistake, who is never illusioned, whose senses are not imperfect and who is not a cheater. These are the qualification.
[children making noise] [aside:] The children... These are the symptoms of perfect person. First thing is he does not commit mistake. Throughout the whole world you study big, big men, they committed mistake.
Hitler committed mistake. Gandhi committed mistake. Churchill committed mistake. Because "To err is human." However big you may be, you cannot avoid mistake, because you are not liberated.
So these are the signs of becoming perfect man: that he does not commit mistake, neither he is illusioned. Illusion means to accept something as something. That is illusion. Just like we are accepting this body as myself.
If you ask me, "What you are?" "I am Indian. I am brāhmaṇa. I am this. I am that." So what are these?
These are all bodily concept of life. This is illusion. Illusion means I am not this body. You have got experience when a man dies, his relatives and children cry, "My father is gone." But actually the father...