So Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the right explanation of the philosophy. What is the original source of everything, that is the beginning: janmādy asya yata. Therefore it is called bhāṣyāyaṁ brahma-sūtrāṇām. Bhāṣya ayam. Ayam grantha, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, is the right commentary on the Vedānta-sūtra. So how this Vedānta-sūtra commentary was originally written by the author himself is explained in the Fifth Chapter of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, First Canto. You try to understand it.
So the cause was that after compiling all these Vedic literature up to the end, Vedānta-sūtra, Vyāsadeva was not satisfied. Vyāsadeva was still morose. So Nārada Muni—he is spiritual master—he could understand that Vyāsadeva is seeking something that, "Why I am morose? I have tried to give knowledge to the people as far as possible, as far I have known from reliable sources. So why I am not satisfied?"
At that time Nārada came to him, and Vyāsadeva received him, as it is the duty of the disciple to give good reception to the spiritual master. And when he was seated nicely, it is said:
- atha taṁ sukham āsīna
- upāsīnaṁ bṛhac-chravāḥ
- devarṣiḥ prāha viprarṣiṁ
- vīṇā-pāṇiḥ smayann iva
- (SB 1.5.1)
So Devarṣi, when he was comfortably seated, with his hand . . . in his hand that vīṇā, vīṇā-pāṇiḥ. Vīṇā-pāṇiḥ is called Sarasvatī. Vīṇā means that stringed instrument which is carried by Nārada and also Sarasvatī, the goddess of learning. Sarasvatī . . .
Students, they worship Sarasvatī for getting learning, material knowledge. And we Vaiṣṇavas, we also . . . he is also Sarasvatī. Nārada is also Sarasvatī. My spiritual master was known as Sarasvatī, Siddhānta Sarasvatī. Sarasvatī is the knowledge.
So there are two kinds of knowledge: avidyā and vidyā. Real vidyā means brahma-vidyā. This brahma-jijñāsā, athāto brahma . . . that is vidyā. That is real knowledge. And avidyā, karma-saṁjña. Another vidyā is how to learn technology, avidyā. Avidyā. That is avidyā. Avidyā-karma-saṁjñānyā tṛtīyā śaktir iṣyate (CC Madhya 6.154). So now, at the present moment, the education is being given to the people how to work hard, karma-saṁjña. That is not now; that is the system everywhere, because everyone wants to enjoy senses as far as possible, so he has to work very hard.
But in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam you will find the instruction is, by Ṛṣabhadeva, that this life is not meant for that simply hard labor for sense gratification. If you work hard, you try to work hard for attaining Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Then your life will be successful.
You have to work hard. If you want to enjoy senses, they are not very easily available. It is said that udyogināṁ praharṣaṁ praheti lakṣyam. Unless you become industrious, laborious, you cannot enjoy even this material world.