Bhūgarbha: Professor Chenique's suggesting that in the Middle Ages there were many philosophers who also were researching the same questions of the body of God and how His body is different from ours, and they came to exactly the same conclusions as are mentioned in the Bhāgavatam. So he's suggesting that some of our devotees should read some of these books so we'll be able to in our preaching show the French people these conceptions that God has a body are not foreign conceptions, and actually even the European philosophers in the Middle Ages were saying the same things.
Prabhupāda: No, you can convince by your words. It is not necessary that you have to read so many other words. If you are yourself convinced, then you can convince others by your words. The fact. The same example, when there is fire actually you can express it by any word.
Bhūgarbha: He says that . . . he feels that it's because he has read all of these books during his youth, now he's able to appreciate Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
Prabhupāda: Hmm?
Bhūgarbha: He feels that because he read all of these other books during his youth that now he's come to the point that he can appreciate Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Anyone who is after truth, he'll appreciate truth. That's a fact. Satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi (SB 1.1.1). That is the Bhāgavata beginning. Satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi. If one is after truth, he'll appreciate truth wherever it is. Every point, from any angle of vision, those who are searching after truth, everything is explained—primarily in the Bhagavad-gītā, and elaborately in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. So about the Christian religion, what is the conception of God?
Bhūgarbha: He said: "If I speak in English then I'll say that God is the father, the son and the Holy Ghost—not one person, but three persons. But if I want to say the same thing in Sanskrit, then I'll say sac-cid-ānanda."
Prabhupāda: Three persons? God is three persons?
Bhūgarbha: Father, the son and the Holy Spirit. But he says that that means the same thing, as far as he's concerned, as sac-cid-ānanda.
Prabhupāda: So why three person? God is one. Expansion, you can say expansion. Just like brahmeti paramātmeti bhagavān iti (SB 1.2.11). The person is one. In the dictionary it is said: "God, the Supreme Being," is it not? Person is one. So person is one, now His expansion, His son, His spirit . . . what is that? Holy Spirit. That is another thing. But the person is one, the Supreme. What is the definition of God? Just see.