not omnisciennt, not god

Jayadvaita: ...they know everything and they're perfect in everything. But sometimes, from our material viewpoint, we see some discrepancies. Just like we think that...    (More...)

Prabhupada: Because material viewpoint. The viewpoint is wrong; therefore you find discrepancies.    (More...)

Jayadvaita: So we should think that we have the defect.    (More...)

Prabhupada: Yes. Acarya is explained, bhakti-samsanat . One who's preaching the cult of devotional service, he's acarya. Then why should you find any discrepancy?    (More...)

Jayadvaita: Just, we see... For instance, sometimes the acarya may seem to forget something or not to know something, so from our point of view, if someone has forgotten, that is...    (More...)

Prabhupada: That is not the... Then you do not understand. Acarya is not God, omniscient. He is servant of God. His business is to preach bhakti cult. That is acarya.    (More...)

Jayadvaita: And that is the perfection.    (More...)

Jayadvaita: So we have a misunderstanding about what perfection is?    (More...)

Prabhupada: Yes. Perfection is here, how he is preaching bhakti cult. That's all.    (More...)

Satsvarupa: Prabhupada, in one purport in the Bhagavad-gita, you write that a disciple of a bona fide spiritual master is supposed to know everything.    (More...)

Satsvarupa: But how could he know...? What does that mean, "everything"?    (More...)

Prabhupada: "Everything" means whatever his guru knows, he should know, that much. Not like God, everything. Within his limit, that's all. If he tries to understand whatever his guru has said, that much is "everything." Otherwise, "everything" does not mean that we know everything like God, like Krsna. That is not possible. If he regularly chants and follow the regulative principles, follow the orders of guru, then he knows everything. That's all. Not very much.    (More...)