When Krsna says, man-mana bhava mad-bhaktah: "You just surrender unto Me; become My bhakta," how you can say, "It isn’t to Krsna."This is not nonsense?

Expressions researched:
"When Kṛṣṇa says this, man-manā bhava mad-bhaktaḥ" |"You just surrender unto Me, become My bhakta" |"how you can say" |"It is not to Kṛṣṇa" |"This is not nonsense"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1971 Conversations and Morning Walks

When Kṛṣṇa says this, man-manā bhava mad-bhaktaḥ: "You just surrender unto Me; become My bhakta," how you can say, "It is not to Kṛṣṇa." This is not nonsense? If I say, "Give me a glass of..." Hear me. If I say, "Give me a glass of water," if you say, "It is not to Swamiji," is that interpretation?.

710118 - Conversation - Allahabad

Prabhupāda: Just like Dr. Radhakrishnan. In the Ninth Chapter there is verse, man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru (BG 18.65). Radhakrishnan says, "It is not to the person Kṛṣṇa." Where he gets this nonsense idea?

Guest (1): No, that Vivekananda also has said.

Prabhupāda: They are all nonsense! Therefore I say they are all nonsense, who deviates from the original text of the Bhagavad-gītā.

Guest (2): Swāmījī, by declaring other interpretation as nonsense, you do not . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes! You cannot interpret! First of all if you cannot interpret. First of all my proposal, that you cannot interpret.

Guest (2): We'll come to that, that you are not interpreting correctly does not make me correct. I must be correct also to . . .

Prabhupāda: I am correct so long I present the correct thing, so long I am . . . if I present Kṛṣṇa as it is, then I am correct.

Guest (2): My solution, Swāmījī, most respectfully, is how do you judge that "I am correct"?

Prabhupāda: Because I am presenting what Kṛṣṇa says. First of all you answer this: What is correct, the standard of correctness? You cannot create correctness. When Kṛṣṇa says this, man-manā bhava mad-bhaktaḥ, "You just surrender unto Me, become My bhakta," how you can say: "It is not to Kṛṣṇa"? This is not nonsense? If I say, "Give me a glass of . . ." Just hear me. If I say, "Give me a glass of water," if you say, "It is not to Swāmījī," is that interpretation?

Guest (1): I do not, and again I say . . .

Prabhupāda: No, no, first of all you answer me. If I say: "Give me a glass of water," and you say: "It is not to Swāmījī."

Guest (1): (indistinct) . . . what the Christ says, Muhammad says, everyone says, that . . .

Prabhupāda: Let them surrender to Christ. But why don't you surrender to Kṛṣṇa?

Guest (1): No, that is true, but . . .

Prabhupāda: That is true, but you do not know how.

Guest (1): No, you see, our . . . even your . . . even your way of thinking and your purpose is that Lord Kṛṣṇa should be the Lord of the whole universe. So we also satisfy . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes, Lord Kṛṣṇa is Lord, universe.