Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. And mother is the only evidence. That's all. Similarly, acintyaḥ khalu ye bhava na tāṁs tarkeṇa yojayet (CC Adi 17.308). Śāstra says that, "What is beyond your experience, you don't argue on that point." You go to the authority and take it. Why you . . . should you argue? It is beyond your experience. Therefore you must find out who can give you the experience. Tad vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum eva abhigacchet (MU 1.2.12). But don't stop there that, "It is beyond my experience; therefore I should not have experience." This is foolishness. If it is beyond your experience, then go to a person who has got experience and take from him. Suppose if I am in this park, I do not know which way to go; it is beyond my experience. Then I ask one gentleman, "Where shall I go?" He'll say: "Please go this way." This is the way. Why should you stop and think others also, that God is beyond his experience also? Why? It may be beyond your experience, but unless you go to a person who has got actually experience, how can you get the experience? (pause)
Bhagavān: He seemed frustrated that he says he's tried, but he hasn't found. He was in India for twenty-five years.
Prabhupāda: Well, the thing is that this, actually, to understand Kṛṣṇa is not easy job. Kṛṣṇa says, manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye (BG 7.3): "Out of millions." But Caitanya Mahāprabhu's mercy, we are trying to understand little, little. Otherwise, it is very difficult to understand it. And if there is any understanding of God, that is in this Vaiṣṇava-sampradāya, especially in this Gauḍīya-Vaiṣṇava-sampradāya. Others, they do not know. They cannot know. Kṛṣṇa will never reveal to them. Sevonmukhe hi jihvādau svayam eva sphuraty adaḥ (Brs. 1.2.234). If you engage your tongue in His service, then God reveals to you. You cannot understand God.
Paramahaṁsa: Śrīla Prabhupāda, how can one remain humble?
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Paramahaṁsa: How can one remain humble in executing his devotional service?
Prabhupāda: Yes. If he thinks himself that, "I am non-entity, helpless," then he can remain. If he thinks, "I can do something. I have got so much intelligence," then he cannot become humble. Just like . . . (aside) Don't come very near. Just like child is humble always, because he knows that "I am completely helpless. Unless mother helps me, I am complete . . ." Therefore, whenever he's in need of something, he cries, "Mother, help me." This is helplessness. Helplessness. Always. Kārpaṇye. This is one of the item of surrender. Unless you think yourself helpless, you cannot surrender. Surrender is complete when you think yourself that you are helpless. "I am helpless, but because I am surrendered to Kṛṣṇa, He'll save me." This faith also must be there that, "Although I am helpless . . . not although I am factually helpless, but because I am surrendered to Kṛṣṇa, I have no danger. He'll help me, protect me."
Paramahaṁsa: People often argue that they don't understand how they can have faith if they don't understand God.