Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur indicates in his Bhagavad Gita Chapter 4 text 10 that by performing jnana tapasya, one can attain realisations of the eternal nature and appearance of Divinity. One becomes purified by austerity in the form of tolerating the burning poison of wrong ideas  or thinking , wrong logic, and wrong arguments.
The Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas have some stalwart scholars amongst them Srila Rupa Goswami, Srila Jiva Goswami to begin with and of course Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur and in recent times ,Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami, Srila BR Sridhar Swami and the extremely intelligent and very practical Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami who miraculously brought Krishna consciousness all over the world inspiring and teaching some of his leading disciples…

Ramanuja acaryas says wise persons give up attachments,  effections or fears, or anger for those who speak nonsensical,  because the wise are throughly absorbed in meditations,  hearing,  chanting and singing and speaking of the glories of Krishna and His associates.

Material calculations of every kind ….

Much unthinking

Mass education in the West is facilitating lots of unoriginal and unthinking persons who follow like sheep or lemmings off a cliff and think the piece of paper they call a degree makes them smart , generally such persons or with even higher degrees or PHD’S step up as government advisors and bring with them their unoriginal and unthinking minds , if we take a look at Western societies and their governance and compliance systems and see the mess they get the world in and how in the sciences they continue to present their unthinking ideas to other unthinking persons in the name of objective sciences, although its not , then its no wonder that Richard Feynman said that you can have a pocket full of PHD’S and still be a complete idiot …
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