(Click to enlarge cover of Srila Prabhupada's original Delhi Bhagavatam)
"So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is especially interested to broadcast the news that 'You are searching after God. Here is God. You do not know what is the name of God. Here is the name: Kṛṣṇa. You do not know what is the address of God.' We say, 'Here is: Vaikuṇṭha, Goloka.' We can give Kṛṣṇa's father's name. Everything we can give. Just like if you want to know somebody, you want to know his name, his address, his father's name—everything. So we can supply. Why you are searching?
Here is God. Not only I am speaking, but all the great ācāryas, they also speak. India is guided. Now we have lost our culture, but our Vedic culture is maintained and guided by big, big ācāryas like Śaṅkarācārya, Rāmānujācārya, Madhvācārya. But we have given ācārya patha. We are inventing our own ways. Now it is. We are inventing our own ways of understanding God. Yato mata tato patha. That is foolishness. No scientific knowledge can be attained by whimsical ways. No. You must accept the prescribed method. 'Two plus two equal to four' always. You cannot make it 'five' or 'three.' That is not science. Similarly, if you want to know Kṛṣṇa, then as Kṛṣṇa says you have to understand.
Therefore we are presenting Bhagavad-gītā as it is, without any interpretation. Kṛṣṇa says, 'I am the Supreme Person'; we say, 'Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Person.' Kṛṣṇa says that He's the background of this cosmic manifestation; we present, 'Yes, Kṛṣṇa is the cause of all material cosmic manifestation.' This is our program. So our only request is those who are intelligent person, let them understand this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. It is not meant for the foolish person. Because foolish person cannot understand. Bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate (BG 7.19)."
(Srila Prabhupada Lecture, Calcutta, June 29, 1973)
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