Knowledge and the soul

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Hare Krsna Vaisnavas,

 

Dandavats! All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

I found this quote of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur and I was

wondering about a sentence that I could not understand. If someone could be

so kind to enlighten me on this sentence from the text below:

"it can be clearly understood that knowledge and the soul is the ultimate

goal to be attained"

 

What does it mean? To be more specific, why is it: 'knowledge AND the soul'.

Is there a deeper meaning behind this?

 

Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati

The Bhagavad-Gita is not seperate from the Vaishnava philosophy and the

Srimad Bhagavatam fully reveals the true import of this doctrine which is

transmigation of the soul. On perusal of the first chapter of Bhagavad-Gita

one may think that they are advised to engage in warfare. When the second

chapter has been read it can be clearly understood that knowledge and the

soul is the ultimate goal to be attained. On studying the third chapter it

is apparent that acts of righteousness are also of high priority. If we

continue and patiently take the time to complete the Bhagavad-Gita and try

to ascertain the truth of its closing chapter we can see that the ultimate

conclusion is to relinquish all the conceptualized ideas of religion which

we possess and fully surrender directly unto the Supreme Lord.

 

 

your servant,

Vinod-bihari das