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741222SB.BOM Lectures
So we belong to the Gaudiya-sampradaya. Gaudiya means, Gaudiya... Gauda-desa is called Bengal. There are panca-gauda. Punjab is also called Gauda-desa. There are five gauda and five dravida. In southern India, they are called dravida, and in the north India, they are called gauda-desa. So Gauda, Bengal is also Gauda, and the Vaisnavas belonging to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's movement, they are called Gaudiya-Vaisnava, Bengali Vaisnava. So Caitanya Mahaprabhu happened to be a Bengali, but He belonged to the Madhva-sampradaya. His guru was Isvara Puri, and his guru, Isvara Puri's guru, was Madhavendra Puri. And Madhavendra Puri belonged to Madhvacarya-sampradaya. The Gopala, the Nathadvara Gopala, that belonged to... Originally it was owned by Madhavendra Puri. Then it was delivered, the Deity was delivered, to the Visnusvami-sampradaya.
So anyway, if we require knowledge, factual knowledge, we must receive it directly from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is perfect knowledge. Therefore Devahuti is receiving knowledge. Although Kapiladeva is her son, but because He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, she is taking knowledge from Him. And if we take knowledge from Him also--everything is there in the book--then that is perfect knowledge. Therefore it is said, bhagavan uvaca. As Bhagavan is complete, purna, purnam adah purnat purnam udacyate--He is purna, sampurna, complete--so that knowledge is perfect.
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