Real learning means humbly surrendering to guru and recognizing we are eternally servants of Krishna.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting, etc.] āpanāra hitāhita kichui nā jāni! grāmya-vyavahāre paṇḍita tāi satya māni [Cc Madhya 20.100]
Prabhupāda: Anyone else? That's all. [02:06] Translation: "I do not know what is beneficial for me and what is detrimental. Nonetheless, in ordinary dealings people consider me a learned scholar, and I am also thinking of myself as such." Prabhupāda: āpanāra hitāhita kichui nā jāni! grāmya-vyavahāre paṇḍita tāi satya māni [Cc Madhya 20.100] So in India, still, a brāhmaṇa is called paṇḍita, paṇḍitjī.
Just like you know our Prime Minister was Paṇḍita Jawaharlal Nehru. He happened to be a Sārasvata brāhmaṇa. Sanātana Gosvāmī, he also a Sārasvata brāhmaṇa by caste. But he has placed himself: nīca jāti nīca-saṅgī patita adhama kuviṣaya-kūpe paḍi' goṭāinu janama [Cc Madhya 20.99] He could understand that "These people call me paṇḍita." Paṇḍita means one who knows everything.
The ultimate paṇḍita is mentioned in the Bhagavad-gītā, paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ [Bg 5.18]. Paṇḍita means he sees every living entity on the equal level. That is real paṇḍita. Paṇḍitāḥ sama... vidyā-vinaya-sampanne brāhmaṇe gavi hastini śuni caiva śva-pāke ca paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ [Bg 5.18] He's really paṇḍita.
That is spiritually. And materially paṇḍita, that is also mentioned by Cāṇakya Paṇḍita, his moral instruction. He gives description of a paṇḍita: mātṛvat para-dāreṣu para-dravyeṣu loṣṭravat ātmavat sarva-bhūteṣu yaḥ paśyati sa paṇḍitaḥ He never said that anyone who has passed his M.A. degree or Ph.D. degree, he is paṇḍita. No.
The test of paṇḍita is here, from moral instruction, that anyone who sees all other woman except his wife as mother, he is paṇḍita. Just see. This is the test. Mātṛvat para-dāreṣu, and para-dravyeṣu, other's property as garbage in the street, nobody touches.
And ātmavat sarva-bhūteṣu, and treat everyone as his own self. If anyone has learned these three things, then he is paṇḍita. And spiritually, when one sees that all living entities, may be in different types of bodies, he is spirit soul, part and parcel of God, then he is paṇḍita. brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati na kāṅkṣati samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām [Bg 18.54] So these are Vedic instructions, and Sanātana Gosvāmī, although he was a minister in Muhammadan government, Nawab Hussain Shah's, but in touch with Caitanya Mahāprabhu, he has come to his knowledge that grāmya-vyavahāre kahe paṇḍita: "Actually, I am not paṇḍita. But in village, in ordinary common sense, because I happen to be a brāhmaṇa, they call me paṇḍita.