452 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 8

knowledge is never perfect because it is produced by an imperfect mind.
Such great sages also have their disciplic succession, but they are not
authorized because such knowledge does not come directly from the
independent Supreme Personality of Godhead, Narayana. No one can be
independent except Narayana; 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 transcen-
dental and can never become perfect. Mundane philosophers, being im-
perfect 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 Maharaja Pariksit do not recognize such mental
speculators, however great they may be, but hear from the authorities like
Sukadeva Gosvami, who is nondifferent from the Supreme Personality of
Godhead by the parampara system, as is specially stressed in the Bhagavad-

gita.
TEXT 26

aq asaa: qdata RATATAT |
framseqattgy aq aebafah ary Ral

na me ’savah parayanti
brahmann anasanaddami
pibato ’cyuta-piyiisam
tad vak yabdhi-vinihsrtam

na—never; me—mine; asavah—life; pardyanti—becomes exhausted;
brahman—O learned brahmana; anasanadt ami—because of fasting;
ptbatah—because of my drinking; acyuta—the infallible; piyisam—nectar;
tat—your; vak yabdhi—ocean of speech; vinihsrtam—flowing down from.

TRANSLATION

O learned brahmana, 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.”
