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If you want to understand God, then try to understand from God Himself. He knows. Just like if you speculate of a big man, a neighbor, a friend, that "What is his wealth? Oh, he appears to be very rich man and very strong man, very influential man." And these are the opulences: very beautiful, very wise. So you can calculate. But if you make friendship with that gentleman and if he speaks about himself, then you can understand what he is. Then how you can understand God, Krsna, by speculation? This is foolishness. Therefore, sastra advises you that jnane prayasam udapasya [SB 10.14.3]: "If you think that you are very learned scholar, you are very advanced in knowledge and you can manufacture what is God, give up this foolishness first of all. Don't make this foolishness." Jnane prayasam. Oh, what is your knowledge? Limited. Kūpa-manḍūka, the frog in the well. How you can imagine? Simply by imagination? Is imagination God? Can you create? (More...)

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