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Whatever I know I have explained in my books. Beyond that I have no knowledge

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"whatever I know I have explained in my books. Beyond that, I have got no knowledge"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

Whatever I know I have explained in my books. Beyond that I have no knowledge. So what can I do? I say that whatever I have got experience, I am explaining in my books. I have explained. So it is not possible for me to answer every individual person. It is not possible.


Room Conversation -- June 26, 1975, Los Angeles:

Revatīnandana: I have read your books, and I have heard you lecture. And so many things they are asking, I am . . . have no capacity to answer them. But you must have the capacity because you know Kṛṣṇa. Therefore they want to ask you personally.

Devotee (1): So that is the . . .

Prabhupāda: So far I am not so able to answer. I admit my fault.

Devotee (1): Oh, so then that is . . .

Prabhupāda: I cannot answer.

Devotee (1): I understand. Okay? But they are saying, the general conception of you is that because you know Kṛṣṇa . . .

Prabhupāda: You can . . . you . . .

Devotee (1): (interrupting) Excuse me. Because you know Kṛṣṇa, therefore you know everything about the material world and can answer all questions.

Prabhupāda: So whatever I know I have explained in my books. Beyond that, I have got no knowledge.

Devotee (2): If that is the case, Śrīla Prabhupāda, that does not diminish our respect for you in the least, because we have always held . . .

Prabhupāda: So what can I do? I say that whatever I have got experience, I am explaining in my books. I have explained. It is not possible for me to answer every individual person. It is not possible.

Devotee (2): We respect that. We understand. It is just that because they are saying these things . . .

Prabhupāda: I have got my advanced students. They can answer. If they are unable to answer, if you do not find answer from my books, then it is hopeless.

Devotee (1): Ah! But your advanced students are saying if they give an answer that, because they have been appointed by you, therefore their answer is perfectly correct, because . . . absolutely correct on all things in the relative world, because they have been appointed by you, and because you know . . .

Prabhupāda: You may . . . that's all right. If you don't believe them . . . (indistinct) . . . business.

Page Title:Whatever I know I have explained in my books. Beyond that I have no knowledge
Compiler:Matea
Created:25 of Nov, 2010
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