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TEACHINGS OF QUEEN KUNTĪ
in chanting twenty-four hours a day. That is the business of Kṛṣṇa conscious devotees.
One may perform all the methods of devotional service or may accept only one. Simply hearing is enough. Parīkṣit Mahārāja did not do anything else but sit down before Śukadeva Gosvāmī and hear for the last seven days of his life. If one simply hears, without doing anything else, if one simply sits down in the temple and whenever there is talk of  Bhagavad-gītā  one goes on hearing, that will be enough. Even if you do not understand, please hear. The vibration, the  mantra , will help you. Grammatical or scholarly understanding is not very important. One may not know Sanskrit grammar, but  bhakti  is  apratihatā , unimpedable. Nothing can check the progress of  bhakti . Therefore one should simply adopt this process of hearing, as recommended by Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
After Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted the renounced order of life, he was criticized by Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, who had been a school-friend of Nīlāmbara Cakravartī, the father-in-law of Caitanya Mahāprabhu's father, Jagannātha Miśra. By this relationship, Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya was on the level of Caitanya Mahāprabhu's grandfather. Thus he said to Caitanya Mahāprabhu, "You are a boy only twenty-four years old, and now You have taken  sannyāsa .  Sannyāsa  is very difficult to keep, because for a young man the world has so many attractions. So You should hear  Vedānta-sūtra ." Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya belonged to the Māyāvāda school, and this indicates that hearing is important even among the Māyāvādīs, who stress the importance of hearing  Vedānta-sūtra . The Vaiṣṇavas, the devotees of Kṛṣṇa, also hear  Vedānta-sūtra , but not from the Māyāvādīs, who falsely interpret it and spoil the process of hearing. The Vaiṣṇavas actually hear  Vedānta-sūtra , because they do not interpret it. When Kṛṣṇa says, "I am the Supreme," the Vaiṣṇavas accept it, and that is the proper way of hearing. If one speculatively interprets the  Vedānta-sūtra  or  Bhagavad-gītā , saying, "The word  kṛṣṇa  means this, and  kurukṣetra  means that," one is simply wasting one's time. One should hear this literature as it is.
Thus although Caitanya Mahāprabhu agreed to hear  Vedānta  from Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, He simply went on hearing it for many days but did not ask any questions. Finally Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya said to Him, "My dear boy, You are hearing, but You do not ask any questions. Why is this? Is it that You can't understand? What is the reason You are silent?" Caitanya Mahāprabhu answered, "Yes, I understand. But I am silent because You are explaining the  Vedānta-sūtra  in a speculative way. Therefore I am simply listening to the verses of  Vedānta-sūtra  but not ac-