Bob: Let me say what else you said this morning that was interesting. I asked him about miracles, and Prabhupāda said that only a fool would believe in miracles because... Let us say you are a child and an adult lifts this table. That's a miracle. Or you're a chemist, and you combine acid and base and make smoke, an explosion or whatever. To somebody ignorant, that's a miracle. And for everything there's a process. And so when you see a miracle, it's just ignorance of the process. So that only a fool would believe in miracles, and, you correct me if I say wrong...
Prabhupāda: Yes, yes.
Bob: ...that when Jesus came, the people then were somewhat more ignorant and needed miracles as aid. Was that... I wasn't sure if that's quite what you said.
Prabhupāda: Yes, yes, yes. Miracle means ignorant.
Bob: I had asked this in relation to all the miracle men you hear about in India.
Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa is the highest miracle man.
Bob: Yes.
Prabhupāda: That is stated by Kuntī.
Bob: Without perfect knowledge, can I not teach some things? For example, I may...
Prabhupāda: You can teach up to that, which point you know.
Bob: But should not claim to teach more than I know.
Prabhupāda: Yes, that is cheating.
Yaśodānandana: In other words, you can't teach the truth...
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Yaśodānandana: ...you can't teach the truth with partial knowledge.
Prabhupāda: Yes. That is not possible by any human being. Because any human being, his senses are imperfect. So how he can teach perfect knowledge? Just like you see the sun like a disc. You have no means to approach the sun. If you say, "We can see the sun by telescope and this and that," that is also made by you. And you are imperfect, your instrument is imperfect. Because that telescope you can say that you are seeing, but that machine is made by you, and you are imperfect. How your machine can be perfect? Therefore your knowledge of the sun is imperfect. So you don't teach about sun unless you have got perfect. That is cheating.