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grames
18 March 2010, 01:45 AM
Is it possible to sell Gyan? How many of us believe that by just reading a printed version of BG will give you real Gyan just because you have paid a price to buy such books?

OTOH, we should see the printed books in the stores as means get awareness and only if you develope sincerity and greater understanding of what is presented in the book by practice, the Gyan will develope. This is the very reason why Guru Dakshina is always offered at the end of Brahmacharya and also not always in terms of money. So, it shouldn't be seen as some material exchange for Gyan and super Knowledge. Buying a printed book is not a Guru Dakshina and it is just to make sure such awareness continue to exist in the acceptable form of the time of our living.

Gyan can never be sold even if someone wants to! :) Its just my opinion.

Krsna Das
18 March 2010, 02:04 AM
Hari Hari...

Grames....and your "opinion" is the verdict of scriptures.

Tulsi das Ji has mentioned that in kali, people will sell the vedas. Spiritually Immature persons understand it as "those who are selling BG (book) are selling vedas".

Whereas the meaning of this is those who say hari-katha, not for the propagation of Hari Bhakti, but to fulfill there personal motives, are the one's selling the vedas.

There are two kinds of Bhagwatas -

(1) Grantha-Bhagwat
(2) Bhakta -Bhagwat

Grantha Bhagwat means the religious books, all the essence of Dharma along with Param-Dharma is mentioned in the vedic texts; but the problem is that the knowledge in these texts is very safely kept in a locked box, and the key of this box resides with somebody else - the Bhakta Bhagwat.

One who reads the vedic texts, and tries to speculate the inherenet meaning os Sastras with out accepting a Guru in any four of the vedic sampradayAs, actually misunderstands the texts. Such person tries to "rob" the knowledge out of these texts, because they reject the authority of a Bhakta-BhAgwat, with whose mercy, the actual meanings of these texts appears in one's heart.

The process is to approach a Guru in any one of the four vedic disciplines and then understand the meanings of these texts.