Prajāpati: . . . current, popular for the last few score of years of Western theology, called systematic theology, in which the various areas of religious or spiritual understanding were covered almost in category. They would take a certain phrase like "creation . . ."
Prabhupāda: No, no. Some kind of speculation.
Prajāpati: I am not talking about the content, which is nonsense, but the form which expounds each, like, area of thought by itself.
Prabhupāda: Jurisdiction.
Prajāpati: Yes.
Karandhara: That's known as speculation.
Prajāpati: But would it be a good proposition to present Kṛṣṇa conscious philosophy in such a systematic way?
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. You do it. Do it. That is intelligence. Here is the only systematic way to understand God. You simply try to understand the first verse of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Then everything is explained there. Now you can . . . I have explained that, what is meant by God. God means the source of everything. Where is that theologician who can deny it? The first proposition is, "God is that which is the source of everything." Now the next question will be, "What is that source, animate or inanimate?" Just like the scientists, they are claiming "matter." This should be discussed. Then you come to the conclusion, "He must be animate." Then next question is, "Wherefrom the animation came?" Then the conclusion should be that, "He is self-sufficient. There is no need of cause." Then "Why people cannot understand?" That answer is that "Even great, great personality like Brahmā, Indra, they also bewildered." In this way, everything is there in that verse, systematical. Yatra tri-sargo 'mṛṣā (SB 1.1.1).