He has come to teach us this vairagya-vidya

“This is the process. First of all, he is taught to be vairagya. Vairagya. So one of the verses written by Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya is:

vairagya-vidya-nija-bhakti-yogam. This bhakti-yoga is vairagya-vidya,

how to teach people to be detached from this material attraction. This is vairagya-vidya. In another place, in Srimad-Bhagavatam, it is said,

vasudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogah prayojitah janayaty asu vairagyam jnanam ca yad ahaitukam [SB 1.2.7]

In human life, two things are required: jnana and vairagya. Jnana means “I am not this body.” This is jnana. Not that so-called scientific knowledge, more attachment for this body. That is not… That is ajnana. That is not jnana. Jnana means how to achieve the status of vairagya. That is jnana. Jnana-vairagya-yuktaya. So the Brahmacari is taught vairagya-vidya. Vairagya-vidya-nija-bhakti-yoga-siksartham ekah purusah puranah [Cc. Madya 6.254] Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya says that “This Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who has taken sannyasa, very early age, only at the age of twenty-four years, a very young man. He has got His young wife at home, sixteen years old, and He has got His mother, old, seventy years old. So He has given up all responsibility, and there is no other male member in the family to look after them, the mother and the young wife. Still, He has taken sannyasa. So therefore He is the Purana-purusha, the Supreme Person, but He has come to teach us this vairagya-vidya.” Vairagya-vidya-nija-bhakti-yoga-siksartham ekah purusah puranah [Cc. Madya 6.254]. Purushah puranah, Krsna. Krsna is described: purushah puranah. Sasvatam puranah. Divyam, adi- purusham. So purushah puranah. Vairagya-vidya-nija-bhakti-yogam: “He has come to teach the bhakti-yoga which is vairagya-vidya.” Vairagya-vidya-nija-bhakti-yoga-siksartham ekah purusah puranah sri-krsna-caitanya-sarira-dhari [Cc. Madya 6.254]. “Now He has assumed the body of Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu.” Tam aham prapadye: “I offer my respectful obeisances to this person. He has come to teach us vairagya-vidya.”

So vairagya-vidya. This family attachment and just the opposite thing is vairagya-vidya, how to become detached. This is the whole process of Vedic civilization. Everyone has got this attachment to the body and expansion of the body. So vairagya-vidya means to be detached. That is called brahma-jnana. Brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kanksati [Bg. 18.54]. That is brahma-jnana. As soon as you understand, aham brahmasmi, “I am not this body, I am spirit soul,” this is called brahma-jnana. So long you do not get this knowledge, you are in ignorance. That ignorance, there are degrees. In the sattva-guna or in the modes of goodness, you can simply theoretically understand that “I am not this body.” That is sattva-guna. Brahminical qualities. Samo damas titiksa arjavam jnana. Jnanam vijnanam astikyam brahma-karma svabhava-jam. When you… brahma-janatiti brahmanah. Brahmana means who has got the knowledge of brahma. Veda-pathad bhaved vipro brahma-janatiti brahmanah janmana jayate sudrah samskarad bhaved dvijah.