Prabhupāda: Yes. One difficulty is that we go to some saintly person, we hear, and we challenge, "Whether the saintly person corroborated my idea?" If he does not, then he's not good.
Guest: (laughs) not . . .
Prabhupāda: If it is against my conviction, "Oh, he is not good."
Guest: . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: No, I am speaking not of you. I know what you are doing. But we should corroborate. But as a preacher, we should simply speak the real truth. There is no question of corresponding with your ideas and another idea. No. We . . . whatever we know, whatever we have heard from our authorities, we'll speak. That's all. It may be somebody may know better than me. That is another thing. But I have to present what I have learned from the authority. That's all. And our authority is Kṛṣṇa, mainly.
Yāre dekha tāre kaha 'kṛṣṇa'-upa . . . (CC Madhya 7.128) That is the spiritual master. Who does not add or subtract from the talks of Kṛṣṇa, he is spiritual master. One who adds and subtracts according to his whims, he is not spiritual master. He is not bona fide spiritual master. "In my opinion . . ." "I give this interpretation . . ." He is not authorized. You are lawyer; you know better than me. In your law court you cannot change the law by your opinion. That is not possible.
Guest: You cannot . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: That is another thing. But that is judged by the expert lawyer, that "Your interpretation is right." And when interpreted. Not ordinarily he interprets everything. When it is not distinct. The law point, when it is not distinct, then interpretation required. When it is distinct, is there any necessity of interpretation? It is clear. Similarly, Kṛṣṇa says: "I am God. I am the Supreme." So how you can interpret that, "No, no, not Kṛṣṇa. Something within Kṛṣṇa." Dr. Radhakrishnan says like that.
Guest: . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: Yes. That is foolishness. Kṛṣṇa says, man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad . . . (BG 18.65).
Guest: That is something within Kṛṣṇa?
Prabhupāda: That is his idea, foolish idea. Because he is nirviśeṣavādi, he cannot accept Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Person; therefore how he can avoid the version of Kṛṣṇa unless he pushes something extra out of his foolishness? And there are foolish persons, they'll say, "Oh, here is Dr. Radhakrishnan says." The intelligent person will see, "Why this foolish person introduces something else?" Here is the clear . . . Kṛṣṇa says: "Just become My devotee." And why he introduces somebody else? But less intelligent person cannot.
Guest: . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: Yes, yes. If you have got Dr. Radhakrishnan's book, I will show you.
Guest: . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: Yes. If you go to the market you can purchase one copy of Bhagavad-gītā of Gita Press . . . (indistinct) . . . Gita Press. With Rāmānuja commentary.
Guest: Rāmānuja.
Prabhupāda: Yes. That will help you.