Prabhupāda: Absolute surrender means anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam (Brs. 1.1.11). I am surrendering to Kṛṣṇa to get this benefit—that is conditional surrender. I surrender to Kṛṣṇa without any motive—that is absolute.
- anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyaṁ
- jñāna-karmādy anāvṛtam
- ānukūlyena kṛṣṇānu-
- śīlanaṁ bhaktir uttamā
- (Brs. 1.1.11)
No motive. That is required. If I think that I shall get some benefit—that is business; that is not bhakti. That is taught by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu:
- āśliṣya vā pāda-ratāṁ pinaṣṭu māṁ
- marma-hatāṁ karoty vā adarśanān
- yathā tathā vā vidadhātu lampaṭo
- mat-prāṇa-nāthas tu sa eva nāparaḥ
- (CC Antya 20.47)
"You can treat me like anything. You can make me brokenhearted by Your absence. Still You are my Lord." That is unconditional surrender.
Acyutānanda: "When I visited the Hare Kṛṣṇa center I thought that God had no form. In such case why should we garnish the idol of Kṛṣṇa with jewelry and adore the idol?"
Prabhupāda: Hmm? What is that?
Pañcadraviḍa: Why should we adore the idol if God has no form?
Prabhupāda: Who says God has no form? God is the Supreme Father. You know your father has form. What the Supreme Father has done that He'll not have form? Your father has got form. You're born of him. Then why the Supreme Father will not have form? What fault He has done? (laughter) What is this logic? God is supposed to . . . the Supreme Father. Janmādy asya yataḥ (SB 1.1.1). That is the Vedic information. The Supreme is that which is the source of everything. So we have got varieties of forms, and why the source should be formless? Why? What is the logic? We have got so many forms—8,400,000—and Kṛṣṇa says, ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā (BG 14.4): "Of all these forms of life, I am the seed-giving father." The seed-giving father, Kṛṣṇa, has form, and His sons have got form. Why the father should be formless? What is this logic? Eh? What is this logic—can anyone say?—that because He's father, therefore He should be formless. What is this logic? The father must have form. Otherwise how many form . . . All these forms, wherefrom it is coming? Kṛṣṇa says, ahaṁ bīja pradaḥ pitā. He is the father. If the sons have form, why the father will not have form? What is this logic?
This is not logical conclusion.