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If you say God is beyond your experience, that you have no experience of God. This is clear meaning. Why do you go round about

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"if you say God is beyond your experience, that you have no experience of God. This is clear meaning. Why do you go round about"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1974 Conversations and Morning Walks

Prabhupāda: You say God is beyond your experience, you say.

Mr. Chenique: Yeah, and I have that experience that God is beyond experience. Because I found out that all my experience does not mean God.

Prabhupāda: But if you say God is beyond your experience, that you have no experience of God. This is clear meaning.

Bhagavān: You must have faith to believe that God wrote the Bhagavad-gītā.

Prabhupāda: Why faith? God is God. Why faith?

Mr. Chenique: Because, you know, I have been living in . . .

Prabhupāda: No, no. You have no experience, you have said. You have no experience.

Mr. Chenique: No, I have not said. You said I did.

Prabhupāda: No, you said that God is beyond your experience. You said.

Mr. Chenique: A real svāmī listen first if he wants to profit.

Prabhupāda: First of all let us consider ourself. You said that God is beyond your experience.

Mr. Chenique: That's right. That is my experience.

Prabhupāda: That's all right. That's all right. That means I am talking with you. Therefore, you have no experience.

Mr. Chenique: Yes, I have.

Prabhupāda: You say God is beyond your experience, you say.

Mr. Chenique: Yeah, and I have that experience that God is beyond experience. Because I found out that all my experience does not mean God.

Prabhupāda: But if you say God is beyond your experience, that you have no experience of God. This is clear meaning. Why do you go round about?

Mr. Chenique: No, you don't . . . you see . . .

Prabhupāda: Then it is a bit difficult.

Mr. Chenique: I have always told that the duty of the svāmī is to listen and to understand, and you don't seem to listen and to understand. You misunderstand.

Prabhupāda: No, no, you said . . . first of all let us . . . why misunderstand? You say that you have no experience of God.

Mr. Chenique: No, I never said that.

Prabhupāda: Then tell me your experience. That I want to know.

Mr. Chenique: That every time I had an experience of God, and first I went through the bhakta, and I was a bhakta for a long, long time, then I found out that God was beyond my experience.

Prabhupāda: That means you have no experience. How can I talk with you?

Mr. Chenique: That the image of God, as do you call it Kṛṣṇa or Rāma or Nṛsiṁha or any of the avatāra . . . and you know, near our place in Poona in Amenagar, there was a svāmī who called himself an avatāra, and . . .

Prabhupāda: That anyone can say. I can say third avatāra, he can say fourth avatāra.

Page Title:If you say God is beyond your experience, that you have no experience of God. This is clear meaning. Why do you go round about
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-10-12, 10:15:03
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