I was in Bhubaneswara, 1998, and attended class given by my Oriya speaking Godbrother. He spoke in Ooriya. I caught most of the Gita verses, though. He stopped class, pointed me out, and said, just see! Even he does not understand our language, Prabhu is so enthusiastic for class, he has come to join us.
Even the speaker speaks some off ish thing, that you can discriminate and all, excercises the intellectual capacity to discern. Discernment and choices made based on the knowledge given from Gita is Absolute, and brings us closer to our Self.
The Self is not merely an intellectual capacity nor a series of logical informations. These things are but the computor we inhabit, a sorting and classifying and analyzing within material time and space. Still, better to occupy our puny brains with Krsna knowledge, so that sooner or later we can break past that stifling brain matter and enter into our identities in reality.
Thinking is linear, or sequential, whereas eternal time is all here and now. The self is full with all required things; so if we achieve that spiritual body, all intellectual feats are as nothing, we are much beyond it, then.
Chanting surpasses mere thinking. Remembrance with heart is not thinking, it is eternal lila, it springs from the inner well, almost touches the Self!
Replies
On a vast and broad spectrum, we have congealed shrunken states of ego being, up to unlimited Pure Ego. We always go in one direction or another, but can see clearly our actual position for right choices, by hearing from purely spiritual authorized sources of knowledge.
Very kool video, PDd!