God has a name to be chanted; surrender to guru and shastra reveals what reason alone cannot know.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — June 11, 1974, Paris 740611MW-PARIS [51:07 Minutes] Walk_740611MW-PARIS Prabhupāda: Hmm?
Prabhupāda: No, no, it is not puffed-up. It is simply foolishness, that "Because I do not know, therefore all others..." Ātmavat manyate. Everyone thinks of others in his own standard. But that argument is not valid.
Bhagavān: Is that the same psychology, that they..., they only know of material body, so that when they think of God, they think that God has material body also.
Prabhupāda: That is still lower-grade man. But so far experience that "I have not... God is beyond my experience." Another point that in the Bible, Christ, Lord Christ, says that "My Lord, Thy be hallowed..." What is that?
Devotees: "Hallowed be Thy name." Prabhupāda: So God has name. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: "Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name." Prabhupāda: Eh? So he admits God has His name. But it may be that he did not disclose or did not like to say, but there is already name.
So it is up to the followers to know what is that name. Yogeśvara: The Guru Maharaj-ji followers say that God's name cannot be pronounced.
Prabhupāda: Eh? Yogeśvara: They say that God's name cannot be...