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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1971]]
[[Category:Questions On... Spirituality (General)]]
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<div class="heading">He must be Kṛṣṇa's representative, one who knows Kṛṣṇa. That's all. If he does not know Kṛṣṇa, how he can explain?
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Henri Bergson|Philosophy Discussion on Henri Bergson]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Atreya Ṛṣi: And also Śyāmasundara Prabhu was asking about predicting about spiritual life. What is the qualification of the person who can make such predictions?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He must be Kṛṣṇa's representative, one who knows Kṛṣṇa. That's all.</p>
<p>Atreya Ṛṣi: No one else.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. If he does not know Kṛṣṇa, how he can explain?</p>
<p>Devotee: That independence, if he exercises that independence from now on, forever, Kṛṣṇa knows exactly how that independence is going to be used forever?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa?</p>
<p>Devotee: Well, the living entity has independence: now he may be liberated, then he may be conditioned, then he may be liberated, then he may be conditioned.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. Kṛṣṇa has given you liberation. Now you misuse your liberation, you become entrapped.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: But it is that predictable?</p>
<p>Devotee: Is that known beforehand?</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Does Kṛṣṇa know beforehand everything, before...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. How Kṛṣṇa can know? You can change your mind. So Kṛṣṇa says "Surrender unto Me." If you don't surrender, then what Kṛṣṇa can do? That much independence is there.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: So even God cannot predict?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What is the use of prediction? Prediction is so much, that he will be kicked, kicked, kicked, and some day he will come.</p>
<p>Devotee: But the independence...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Independence is there. Independence is always there. When he is being kicked, there is also independence.</p>
<p>Devotee: Then he is so many times falling down, again and again, eventually permanently he will come back.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. There is no question of permanent. Because he has got independence, he can misuse his independence, he can fall down. That's why one man is released from the prison house, that does not mean permanently he... He can come back again.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: There's no guarantee.</p>
<p>Atreya Ṛṣi: This concept of prediction, Prabhupāda. You just said it's the duty of the material (indistinct) because he's (indistinct) material. Because he's not sure and...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (indistinct) by experience (indistinct). Just like  you can predict that four months after, there will be winter season. This prediction is like that. You have got experience that last year there was winter season, and again four months after there will be winter season. We call this prediction of experience, that's all.</p>
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