At the holy place of Shri Ranga-ksetra in India, a devotee brahmin would visit the temple of Lord Vishnu daily and recite the entire Bhagavad-gita there. However, he was not able to pronounce the Sanskrit words correctly, and scholars around the temple used to make fun of him. But because just by reading Bhagavad-gita he was overflowing with great spiritual ecstasy, he was not in the least bothered by what people were saying about him.

While Lord Chaitanya was on his tour of southern India he met the brahmin and asked him, "Why are you in such ecstatic love? Which portion of the Bhagavad-gita gives you such transcendental pleasure?"

The brahmin replied, "My Lord, I am not very learned and therefore do not know the meaning of the words."

The Lord then asked him why he was crying. The brahmin replied, "Whenever I sit down with the Gita, the form of Lord Krishna as Partha-sarathi (Arjuna's chariot driver) appears in my heart. Because the Lord in this form is serving His devotee, this make me cry."

The Lord then embraced him and told him that he had become perfect in his recitation of the Gita.

From this story we can understand that the Bhagavad-gita cannot be realized by mundane, material intelligence. The knowledge of the Gita must be received through a genuine chain of spiritual teachers, coming down from God, Bhagavan, in disciplic succession. Otherwise studying the Gita is a futile exercise.