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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 11]
brahmeti paramātmeti bhagavān iti śabdyate.  Even after coming to the platform of understanding  tattva , one must worship Bhagavān,  Viṣṇu  and His expansions, or one is not yet perfect.  Bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate:  after many births, one who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto  Krṣṇa . The conclusion is that unintelligent men with a poor fund of knowledge cannot understand Bhagavān,  Brahman  or  Paramātmā , but after studying the  Vedas  and attaining the understanding of the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one is supposed to be on the platform of perfect knowledge.
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न तस्य तत्त्वग्रहणाय साक्षाद् वरीयसीरपि वाचः समासन् । स्वप्ने निरुक्त्या गृहमेधिसौख्यं न यस्य हेयानुमितं स्वयं स्यात् ॥ ३ ॥
na tasya tattva-grahaṇāya sākṣād varīyasīr api vācaḥ samāsan svapne niruktyā gṛhamedhi-saukhyaṁ na yasya heyānumitaṁ svayaṁ syāt
na —not;  tasya —of him (a student studying the  Vedas );  tattva-grahaṇāya —for accepting the real purpose of Vedic knowledge;  sākṣāt —directly;  varīyasīḥ —very exalted;  api —although;  vācaḥ —words of the  Vedas ;  samāsan —sufficiently became;  svapne —in a dream;  niruktyā —by example;  gṛha-medhi-saukhyaṁ —happiness within this material world;  na —not;  yasya —of him who;  heya-anumitaṁ —concluded to be inferior;  svayaṁ —automatically;  syāt —become.
TRANSLATION
A dream becomes automatically known to a person as false and immaterial, and similarly one eventually realizes that material happiness in this life or the next, on this planet or a higher planet, is insignificant. When one realizes this, the  Vedas , although an ex-