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Jaḍa Bharata Instructs King Rahūgaṇa
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The  veda-vāda  followers of the  Vedas  are generally inclined to  karma-kāṇḍa , the performance of sacrifice according to the Vedic injunctions. They are thereby promoted to higher planetary systems. They generally practice the Cāturmāsya system.  Akṣayyam ha vai cāturmāsya-yājīnaḥ sukṛtam bhavati:  one who performs the  cāturmāsya-yajña  becomes pious. By becoming pious, one may be promoted to the higher planetary systems ( ūrdhvam gacchanti sattva-sthāḥ ). Some of the followers of the  Vedas  are attached to  karma-kāṇḍa , the fruitive activities of the  Vedas , in order to be promoted to a higher standard of life. Others argue that this is not the purpose of the  Vedas .  Tad yathaiveha karma-jitaḥ lokaḥ kṣīyate evam evam utra puṇya-jitaḥ lokaḥ kṣīyate . In this world someone may become very highly elevated by taking birth in an aristocratic family, by being well educated, beautiful or very rich. These are the gifts for pious activities enacted in the past life. However, these will be finished when the stock of pious activity is finished. If we become attached to pious activities, we may get these various worldly facilities in the next life and may take birth in the heavenly planets. But all this will eventually be finished.  Kṣīṇe puṇye martya-lokam viśanti  (Bg. 9.21): when the stock of pious activity is finished, one again has to come to this  martya-loka . According to the Vedic injunctions, the performance of pious activity is not really the objective of the  Vedas . The objective of the  Vedas  is explained in  Bhagavad-gītā .  Vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyaḥ:  the objective of the  Vedas  is to understand Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Those who are  veda-vādīs  are not actually advanced in knowledge, and those who are followers of  jñāna-kāṇḍa  (Brahman understanding) are also not perfect. However, when one comes to the platform of  upāsanā  and accepts the worship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he becomes perfect ( ārādhanānām sarveṣām viṣṇor ārādhanam param ). In the  Vedas  the worship of different demigods and the performance of sacrifice are certainly mentioned, but such worship is inferior because the worshipers do not know that the ultimate goal is  Viṣṇu  ( na te viduḥ svārtha-gatim hi viṣṇum ). When one comes to the platform of  viṣṇor ārādhanam , or  bhakti-yoga , one has attained the perfection of life. Otherwise, as indicated in  Bhagavad-gītā , one is not a  tattva-vādī  but a  veda-vādī , a blind follower of the Vedic injunctions. A  veda-vādī  cannot be purified from material contamination unless he becomes a  tattva-vādī , that is, one who knows  tattva , the Absolute Truth.  Tattva  is also experienced in three features—