Prabhupāda: If you don't accept this principle, there is no possibility. Then you can go on thinking in your own way. There is no question of going to anyone. You make yourself perfect by thinking, as many others are doing, speculating. That is possible. But never to the perfectional . . . (indistinct)
Guest (1): Perfectly, you see . . . what is the category of different perfection?
Prabhupāda: That you have to learn. That you have to learn.
Guest (1): No, no, learn from whom?
Prabhupāda: From the higher authority.
Guest (1): So how we know?
Prabhupāda: That is another thing, who is higher authority. That you have to search out. That you have to search out.
Guest (1): We must understand what is higher person and what is lower, and whether Buddha is correct or not.
Prabhupāda: Now, higher authority . . . suppose we accept Kṛṣṇa as the higher authority. Our this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, we accept Kṛṣṇa as the higher.
Guest (1): It is accepted.
Prabhupāda: Whatever it may be, we accept Kṛṣṇa as the higher authority. Do you accept that?
Guest (1): I mean, I am shown the form. You see . . .
Prabhupāda: There is no question . . . Kṛṣṇa is accepted higher authority not only by us, by big ācāryas like Śaṅkarācārya, Rāmānujācārya, Madhvācārya, those who are guiding our Vedic life in India, Caitanya. So Kṛṣṇa is accepted the highest authority.
Kṛṣṇa in the Bhagavad-gītā says, mattaḥ parataraṁ nāsti (BG 7.7): "There is no more higher authority than Me." Then if you don't accept Kṛṣṇa as the higher authority, that is your business, but we accept Kṛṣṇa as the higher authority.
Guest (1): So something is coming in that way because Kṛṣṇa, that was what He had said in a particular time or time frame . . .
Prabhupāda: No, no, no. Authority means . . . it does not mean a time.
Guest (1): No, for that time.
Prabhupāda: No, no. First of all try, try . . . authority means . . .
Guest (1): For the time.
Prabhupāda: All the time. That is authority.