A genuine guru is sought not for material benefit, but by those sincerely inquiring into their spiritual identity and Brahman.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.100-108 — November 9, 1975, Bombay 751109CC-BOMBAY [37:56 Minutes] CcMadhya-20.100-108_751109CC-BOMBAY Prabhupāda: [aside:] [Hindi] Give him seat. So read. You have no other book? So, last Sunday we were discussing about Sanātana Gosvāmī's meeting with Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Sanātana Gosvāmī was the finance minister of Nawab Hussain Shah, the then Pathan government of Bengal. So he resigned his office. The Nawab was reluctant to give him release. He was arrested, but somehow or other he released himself by bribing the superintendent of jail, and he met Caitanya Mahāprabhu at Benares, or Vārāṇasī.
And for two months He gave him instruction how to spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness. So approaching the guru, Sanātana Gosvāmī, his submission was that "People in general, they talk of me as very learned scholar." He was very good scholar in Sanskrit, in Arabic and Persian language, because he was minister, very responsible post. So... And he was born in brāhmaṇa family, Sārasvata brāhmaṇa family.
So naturally he was supposed to be very learned scholar, paṇḍita, brāhmaṇa-paṇḍita. Still we address a brāhmaṇa as paṇḍitjī. Never we address a brāhmaṇa as mūrkhajī. So that is the etiquette.
Brāhmaṇa means he must be very learned scholar and a very advanced devotee. Brāhmaṇa-paṇḍita, brāhmaṇa Vaiṣṇava. These are the qualification of brāhmaṇa. So naturally he was addressed as paṇḍitjī, but he denied to accept that he is actually paṇḍita.
So he submitted that, grāmya-vyavahāre kahaye paṇḍita satya kari māni āpanāra hitāhita kichui nā jāni [Cc. Madhya 20.100] That "People, they address me as paṇḍita, but I am such a paṇḍita that I do not know what I am." This is the position of everyone. Everyone is very much proud of his learning, scientific knowledge and so on, so on. But if you ask him, "What you are?" "I am Indian," "I am brāhmaṇa," "I am kṣatriya," "I am American." This is the answer you'll get.
But that is, I am not. I am not this body. This is the beginning of paṇḍita. This is the beginning.