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Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda, one may ask why someone like Christ or Moses is not mentioned among the

If you love somebody and he’s not there, you find everything vacant. Is that clear or not?

“Oh, that I do not know.” If you have not learned how to love God, then what is the meaning of your religion?”

They have some conception of God, but actually they do not know what God is. It is not merely fantasy or imagination.

“As the world is coming to be divided into just two classes – atheist and theist – is it not advisable

Śrīla Prabhupāda: Well, love does not mean that you come once a week to my house.

You should understand and see from the activities of Kṛṣṇa whether He is or is not Bhagavān. If you do not know how to test my statement, then you may refuse to accept it. That is your ignorance: you do not know what gold is.

If you do not know your relationship with God and others’ relationship with God, then how can you love Love is not mere fantasy or imagination. You cannot love air.

If you do not accept in the beginning that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Lord, then try to understand this gradually

So you should try to understand whether Kṛṣṇa is God or not. But He is God.

Sampradāya-vihinā ye mantrās te niṣphalā matāḥ: if you do not belong to a bona fide sampradāya, originating Mental speculation is not religion.

But that does not mean the European sun is different from the Indian sun.

That is not religion. That is superfluous. As stated in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam [1.2.8],

If you love somebody but you have not given anything to that person or taken anything from him, where

If he remains in darkness and does not learn what God is, then how will he understand Kṛṣṇa?

But if you do not even know the person, then where is the question of love?

So if you have no clear conception of God, if you do not know who God is, there is no question of accepting

Even though I am not from your country, because you have love for me, you surrender.

It is not possible.

But that is not a fact. When you enter the temple, you know definitely, “Here is Kṛṣṇa.