His Energies

The Vedic teachings-the Bhagavad-gita, Bhagavata Purana and all the different corollaries and supplementary literature-give us the knowledge not only that God is great but of how great He actually is, who is God, what are His energies, in what way are they working and what is our relationship to these different energies.

Many religionists are talking about developing a love of God, but where is the possibility of developing actual love of God unless we have some knowledge of the Lord's personality and activities?

For example, in this world when one person loves another, this love develops after an understanding of each other's character and personality. You cannot actually love someone you don't know.

Q. How then do you view the teachings of other spiritual leaders?

A. We can understand that there have been many great teachers on devotional activities in relation to the Lord, such as Lord Jesus, Son of God, and Lord Muhammad, but they taught according to a particular time and circumstance. They, of course, were perfect.

We can see this in the example of Lord Jesus, who told his disciples, "There is so much that I have yet to tell thee, but you cannot bear to hear it now."

According to that particular time and circumstance, the people to whom Lord Jesus spoke were not very accepting in spiritual knowledge.