Kathamrita Volume II - Swami Vivekananda

understand?”The Doctor remains silent.Mere learning and the DoctorSri Ramakrishna — Do you want to know thetruth? Mere learning and scholarship benefitone not at all. Pundits know so much and hear alot of things – the Vedas, the Puranas and theTantras. But of what avail is mere learning?Discrimination and non-attachment arenecessary. One must listen to him alone whohas attained discrimination and nonattachment.Of what use are the words of thosewho have made the world their main goal inlife?“What happens when you read the Gita? If yourepeat the word Gita ten times, it becomestagi [20] . Only he who has renounced hisattachment to ‘lust and greed’ and who candirect a hundred percent of his love to God canunderstand the essence of the Gita. One doesn’thave to read the whole of the Gita. Just say,‘Tagi, tagi,’ and it is done.”Dr. Sarkar — Tagi needs the extra letter ‘y’ tobecome tyagi [the correct Sanskrit word for arenouncer].Mani — Goswami Navadvip said to Thakurthat one can do without adding the letter ‘y’.