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DISCOURSE 92
and acquire a knowledge of the tatvas with the guidance of enlightened scholars.
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If you are entangled in your endeavours relating to Artha and Kama then you cannot carry out scriptural studies. If your mind is too deeply entangled in your cravings for the benefits of samsar, you cannot carry out scriptural studies. In order to carry out a study of the scriptures, your mind must be totally free from all worries and worldly concerns. You can carry out those studies only if your life as a householder is serene and peaceful.
MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES
The second point relates to those who teach you the scriptures. You can carry out scriptural studies only if great scriptural scholars visit your towns and cities.
There is one other point which relates to your physical health. You can carry out scriptural studies only if your body is free from diseases. In a state of physical ill-health, you cannot carry out these studies; therefore, as long as you enjoy sound health, you must carry out these studies.
But the most important factor in this respect is your enthusiasm and interest. You can study the scriptures only if you have the necessary interest and enthusiasm. Your knowledge can become sublime only when you study the scriptures. If you carry out such studies you will by means of Uha and Apoha determine tatvas. The eighth quality of the intelligence is tatvabhinivesh or the resolution and assimilation of doctrines and by those contemplations, you can reach this level.
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When your knowledge of tatvas is free from all doubts, you will assimilate the sublime doctrines and there will be a determination of those doctrines in your minds. You will say, "Only this tatva is right". That way you will determine tatvas but for this you require intelligence, not ordinary intelligence but an incisive and excessive intelligence.
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