God's laws are universal and equally binding; true liberation comes through complete surrender to Krishna consciousness without compromise.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation — June 29, 1972, San Diego 720629R1-SAN DIEGO [23:20 Minutes] Conv_720629R1-SAN DIEGO Prabhupāda: You cannot say that "I have got a different faith. I do not care for the laws of God." It it is a law... Just like, for example, here in the state, if you kill somebody, then you have to pay for it with your life. So if that is the law in your state, why a similar law in broader sense is not there in the courts of God, law..., law of God?
You can avoid the arrest by the police and punishment by the state law by tricks, but you cannot avoid by tricks the law of God. That is not possible. If you violate the law of God, then you will be punished. If you violate the law..., just like if you touch fire your hand will be burned, so this law you cannot violate. Either you are Christian or Hindu or Muslim, if you touch fire, the law of God is that it will burn.
So it will not care for you whether you are Hindu, Muslim, Christian. So law of God is applicable to everyone. Either you are Hindu or Muslim or Christian or you have got this faith or that faith, that is not... So we have got such a God whose laws are equally respectable. Ātreya Ṛṣi: Universal. Prabhupāda: Universal.
We present such God. Ātreya Ṛṣi: Moreover, we present a God that is lovable. Prabhupāda: Lovable, yes. Practical. Anyone who comes in touch with Him, he becomes a lover of, immediately. Now how you can say that He is not God?
You have to prove that He is not God. That you cannot. [pause] Ātreya Ṛṣi: How many qualifications does a spiritual master has in terms of being a spiritual master? Prabhupāda: One qualification: he is a devotee of God. That's all. Ātreya Ṛṣi: Also is he designated? Prabhupāda: Huh? Ātreya Ṛṣi: Does he have to be designated by the former spiritual master?
He has to be devotee... Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Ātreya Ṛṣi: ...surrendered and designated. That is..., identifies disciplic succession: both surrender and designation. Prabhupāda: And by the result. Ātreya Ṛṣi: And the result of activity. [pause] Prabhupāda: So far designation is concerned, the spiritual master authorizes every one of his disciple.
But it is up to the disciple to carry out the order, able to carry out or not. It is not that spiritual master is partial, he designates one and rejects other. He may do that. If the other is not qualified, he can do that.