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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 8]
knowledge is never perfect because it is produced by an imperfect mind. Such great sages also have their discipline succession, but they are not authorized because such knowledge does not come directly from the independent Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa. No one can be independent except Nārāyaṇa; therefore no one's knowledge can be perfect due to being dependent on the flickering mind. Mind is material, and thus knowledge presented by material speculators is never transcendental and can never become perfect. Mundane philosophers, being imperfect in themselves, disagree with other philosophers because a mundane philosopher is not a philosopher at all unless he presents his own theory. Intelligent persons like Mahārāja Parīkṣit do not recognize such mental speculators, however great they may be, but hear from the authorities like Śukadeva Gosvāmī, who is nondifferent from the Supreme Personality of Godhead by the  paramparā  system, as is specially stressed in the  Bhagavad-gītā .
TEXT 26
न मेऽसवः परायन्ति ब्रह्मन्त्रनशनादमी । पिबतोऽच्युतपीयूषम् तद् वाक्याश्चिविनिःसृतम् ॥२६॥
na me 'savaḥ parāyanti brahmann anaśanādamī pibato 'cyuta-pīyūṣam tad vākyābdhi-viniḥsṛtam
na—never; me—mine; asavaḥ—life; parāyanti—becomes exhausted; brahman—O learned brāhmaṇa; anaśanāt amī—because of fasting; pibataḥ—because of my drinking; acyuta—the infallible; pīyūṣam—nectar; tat—your; vākyābdhi—ocean of speech; viniḥsṛtam—flowing down from.
TRANSLATION
O learned brāhmaṇa, because of my drinking the nectar of the message of the infallible Personality of Godhead, which is flowing down from the ocean of your speeches, I do not feel any sort of exhaustion due to my fasting.”