Devotee: Our Guru Maharaj, Srila Swami Maharaj Prabhupad, used
          to say, athatho means, "now that we have come to the human form of
          life," "after coming to the human form of life."
      
          
                    Srila Guru Maharaj: But the human form of life alone is not
          sufficient. Sat-sanga, sadhu-sanga, is necessary, sad-guru
          charanasraya. Anyone who has received the grace of a sadhu can have
          that nectar, whereas, ya'o pada Bhagavata Vaisnavera sthane, even a
          brahmana may not be qualified to enter into the Bhagavatam. Sriman
          Mahaprabhu said, "Go to a Vaisnava, from him you will get the real
          stand-point of Bhagavatam and how to approach it."
        
          Devananda Pandit, a real brahmana of noted scholarship, was a
          'professor' of Bhagavatam. Many people used to come to hear from
          him. But although a scholar, his stand-point was that of the Shankara
          school. Srivasa Pandit also lived locally but he was an expert in the
          real explanations of Bhagavatam.
         Mahaprabhu suddenly one day said, "Oh, that Devananda Pandit, he
          teaches Bhagavatam to so many students, but he himself does not
          know its real purport. He is spreading poison in the name of
          Bhagavatam. I shall go and tear up his books!" Inspired one day with
          such a spirit Mahaprabhu suddenly ran towards that place, but Srivasa
          Pandit, and others perhaps, stopped Him, saying, "No, no, this won't
          look good for you."
        
          Anyhow, on another day Mahaprabhu met Devananda Pandit and told
          him, "You are teaching Srimad-Bhagavatam to the students, but do
          you know what is there in Bhagavatam? You yourself do not know
          what nectar is there."        In a very ridiculing way, Mahaprabhu told him:
          
      
             paripurna kariya ye saba jane khaya
   tabe bahirddese giya se santosa paya
                                        (Sri Chaitanya-bhagavat, Madhya 21.73)
             
      
          "When one who has eaten and has a full belly goes to the latrine,
          while passing stool he feels some relief, but you do not even get that
          sort of meagre pleasure! 
          "But in Srimad-Bhagavatam there is such high
          nectar, such high taste, but you, such a mean fellow with your mean
          mind, approach the Bhagavatam and teach it in such a filthy way.
          What do you know about Bhagavatam?"
        
          On another occasion, Srivasa Pandit came to hear Bhagavatam from
          Devananda's tol, Sanskrit school. While Devananda was pronouncing
          the slokas, Srivasa was understanding them in his own way thus
          causing many feelings to come in him: sometimes he shed tears and
          sometimes he shivered. Devananda Pandit told his students, "Oh, that
          man has come to disturb us with all these lower sentiments. Take him
          out!" So, his students took Srivasa Pandit from there and left him
          outside; but that enraged Mahaprabhu.
         Later on Mahaprabhu's intimate devotee, Vakresvara Pandit, came to
          Devananda's house. He came and had a private talk with Devananda,
          and Devananda was converted: "Yes, I did not know that such
          meanings may be found in Srimad-Bhagavatam. I was influenced by
          Sankaracharyya's teaching that brahman is all-in-all, therefore I
          considered these topics of Bhagavatam to be all saguna, all under
          Maya." So, when Mahaprabhu after five years of sannyasa came again
          to visit this area, Kuliya here in Nabadwip Dham, Devananda fell at
          His feet, crying, "I have made such great offences!"
        
          Mahaprabhu said, "Yes, but you have committed offences not so much
          against Me as against Srivasa Pandit. Go and beg forgiveness from
          him and you will be absolved from your offences."
           kuliya-gramete asi' sri-krsna-caitanya 
             hena nahi, ya 're prabhu na karila dhanya
                (Chaitanya-bhagavat, Antya 3.541)