Srila Prabhupada did not preach from the Bible.
He did not preach from the Koran.
He did not preach from the Torah.
He preached from the Bhagavad gita, Srimad Bhagavatam and Chaitanya Charitamrta and the Vaishnava acharya's writings.
I see there is a growing tendency for devotees to want to speak about God from these other scriptures.
I think it is a mistake.
Personally I appreciate the ways in which God is glorified and the path to transcendence is elucidated in these other spiritual cultures.
But we are specifically given God as Krishna and that is only available from the Vaishnava culture.
Our mission is to glorify Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead as given to us by our line of disciplic succession.
How to do that is very simple, hear and chant, but we are not so simple so everything becomes very complicated.
He did not preach from the Koran.
He did not preach from the Torah.
He preached from the Bhagavad gita, Srimad Bhagavatam and Chaitanya Charitamrta and the Vaishnava acharya's writings.
I see there is a growing tendency for devotees to want to speak about God from these other scriptures.
I think it is a mistake.
Personally I appreciate the ways in which God is glorified and the path to transcendence is elucidated in these other spiritual cultures.
But we are specifically given God as Krishna and that is only available from the Vaishnava culture.
Our mission is to glorify Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead as given to us by our line of disciplic succession.
How to do that is very simple, hear and chant, but we are not so simple so everything becomes very complicated.
Rascals will bring so many gods....
"Prabhupada: There was a suggestion when I (indistinct) international, I was going to register, they suggested, "Why don't you make God conscious? Why you make Krsna conscious?" And if I had made God conscious so many rascals will bring so many Gods. Therefore specifically only Krsna God. That's all. That is authorized. If you like, you take other's God. But this is our philosophy, mam ekam saranam vraja. Was it not wise conclusion?
...or else they do not actually know who is god:
"Prabhupada: Yes. There is collaboration. We are proposing this collaboration. All religion, they're after... Religion means to accept God. So if you accept God, we accept God. Then where is no cooperation? This is cooperation. But if you don't know what is God, we know. That is the difference. Ask this Christians, Mohammedans, and any other religious group, they have got a conception of God, ask them what is the form of God, what does He do, what is His..., so many things. They do not know. But we know.
Pusta-krsna: They simply say He is spirit.
Prabhupada: Yes. That's all, vague idea. We say, "Here is God." So if you actually believe in God, why don't you take this God and the whole, all different types of religions become one? If you accept God, then we say, "Here is God." So where is the point of difference? How do you differ? Why do you say that you are different religion, my religion? Why do you say, "My religion"? Everyone... This is the only religion: to know God and love Him. What is their objection? To accept God, Krsna? What is their object? What is their reason?"
Morning walk,Geneva, June 7, 1974
"Prabhupada: There was a suggestion when I (indistinct) international, I was going to register, they suggested, "Why don't you make God conscious? Why you make Krsna conscious?" And if I had made God conscious so many rascals will bring so many Gods. Therefore specifically only Krsna God. That's all. That is authorized. If you like, you take other's God. But this is our philosophy, mam ekam saranam vraja. Was it not wise conclusion?
...or else they do not actually know who is god:
"Prabhupada: Yes. There is collaboration. We are proposing this collaboration. All religion, they're after... Religion means to accept God. So if you accept God, we accept God. Then where is no cooperation? This is cooperation. But if you don't know what is God, we know. That is the difference. Ask this Christians, Mohammedans, and any other religious group, they have got a conception of God, ask them what is the form of God, what does He do, what is His..., so many things. They do not know. But we know.
Pusta-krsna: They simply say He is spirit.
Prabhupada: Yes. That's all, vague idea. We say, "Here is God." So if you actually believe in God, why don't you take this God and the whole, all different types of religions become one? If you accept God, then we say, "Here is God." So where is the point of difference? How do you differ? Why do you say that you are different religion, my religion? Why do you say, "My religion"? Everyone... This is the only religion: to know God and love Him. What is their objection? To accept God, Krsna? What is their object? What is their reason?"
Morning walk,Geneva, June 7, 1974
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