Authentic spiritual knowledge flows only through the disciplic succession, never through the adulteration of unauthorized interpretation.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Lecture — December 8, 1972, Ahmedabad 721208LE-AHMEDABAD [48:47 Minutes] Lecture_721208LE-AHMEDABAD Prabhupāda: ...yesterday the definition of Bhagavān, ṣaḍ-aiśvarya-pūrṇa-bhagavān [Cc Madhya 25.33]: all riches, all strength, all reputation, all beauty, all knowledge and all renunciation. Complete. Because I have got mill... [break] Whether one has got...
Nobody's greater than God; nobody's equal to God. That is God. If you find somebody equal to you, then you are not God. You may be demigod, but the God means supreme. Īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ [Bs. 5.1].
That Supreme God is Kṛṣṇa. Parama, supreme. Nobody is equal to Kṛṣṇa, nobody's greater than Kṛṣṇa. Therefore Kṛṣṇa is God. There are so many Gods nowadays.
The... Actually, the Māyāvādī philosopher, they say everyone is Nārāyaṇa. But what is the proof? We find out from the śāstras that Nārāyaṇa has got four hands.
So where is your four hands? You are claiming to become Nārāyaṇa, so where are your four hands? Just manifest your four hands at least so that we can understand you are Nārāyaṇa. [chuckles] No.
Without four hands. And Nārāyaṇa is Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa. He's the husband of Lakṣmī, the goddess of fortune. So where is your goddess of fortune?
You are begging from door to door. Where is your goddess of fortune, you have become Nārāyaṇa? So this kind of God and Nārāyaṇa is going on, bluffing. But we are not bluffed in that way. We follow the śāstric injunction what is Nārāyaṇa.