Even in our own Hare Krishna Movement, Srila Prabhupada was actually a very good scholar but Bhaktivedanta, Vedanta means the end of knowledge, but what is the end of knowledge? Bhakti. It was really his sacrifice and devotion, which is his greatest attribute. And Prabhupada describes it was his humility that so many of his godbrothers and so many scholars are actually much better than him at scholarship. And some of his disciples who had big big universities like Ohaio university, Harvard university in Sanskrit, they became devotees. They studied under him and they were at the same time studying very scrutinizingly all of these academic subjects in regard to the Vedas and they felt that they were more learned than Prabhupada and from academic point of view perhaps they were. And because of this, they could not be submissive before him. They were thinking that my academic understanding of Sanskrit grammar is superior to my guru. So, therefore their humble of service attitude was spoiled by this conception and ultimately out of pride, they left their Gurudev, thinking that ‘I know what you are teaching is too preliminary for one is advanced in Vedantic study to somebody like me. So, what happened to those people? Many of them just become, fell down completely into the materialistic life, most of them did. They became professors at universities, but no devotion. And others they just went on to their own, they went to some other guru and in this way because of their aparadha, Krishna is not going to be very generous in giving them His mercy to such persons.
