Why Study the  Vedantra Sutra?
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for nobody can be equal in intelligence to God. Another Name of God is therefore  Asmaurdha . Nobody is equal to or greater than Him. Everybody has his equal or superior in intelligence, and nobody can claim that he has neither. This fact is corroborated in the  Sruti Mantras , where it is said that before the Creation of the material Universe, there was the Lord, Who is the Master of everyone. The Lord instructed Brahma in the Vedic knowledge. That Personality of Godhead has to be obeyed in all respects. Anybody who wants to become free of the material entanglement must, therefore, surrender unto Him. This is confirmed in the  Bhagavad Gita  also.
Unless one surrenders unto the Lotus Feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead it is sure and certain that one must be bewildered, even if he happens to be a great mind. When the great minds surrender unto the Lotus Feet of Vasudeva and know fully that Lord Vasudeva is the Cause of all causes, as is confirmed in the  Bhagavad Gita , then only can such great minds become  Mahatmas  or the truly broad-minded. But such a broad-minded  Mahatma  is rarely seen. Only the  Mahatmas , however, can understand the Supreme Lord, Who is the Absolute Personality of Godhead, the Primeval Cause of all creations. He is  Parama , or Ultimate Truth, because all other truths are relatively dependent on Him. And because He is the Source of everyone's knowledge He is omniscient, and for Him there is no illusion as there is for the relative knower.
Some scholars of the Mayavadi school argue that  Srimad Bhagwatam  was not compiled by Sri Vyasadeva, and some of them suggest that this book is a creation in the modern age of somebody by the name of Bopedeva. Srila Sridhar Swami, in order to refute this meaningless argument, says that there is reference to the  Bhagwatam  in many other of the oldest  Puranas . The first  Sloka , or verse, of the  Srimad Bhagwatam  is begun with the  Gayatri Mantra , and there is reference to this as the  Matsya Puranam  (the oldest  Puranam ). In that  Puranam  it is said, with reference to the context of  Gayatri Mantra  in the  Bhagwatam , that there are many narrations of spiritual instructions, beginning with the  Gayatri Mantra , and also the history of Vitrasura is in  Gayatri Mantra . Anyone who makes a gift of this great work on the full moon day, attains to the highest perfection of life by going back to Godhead. Similarly, there is a reference to this  Bhagwatam  in other  Puranas  where it is said that the work consists of twelve cantos and 18,000  Slokas . In the  Padma Puranam  also there is reference to the  Bhagwatam , during the conversation of Goutam and Maharaj Amburish. The king was advised therein to read regularly  Srimad Bhagwatam  if he at all desired liberation from the material bondage. Under