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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1977]]
[[Category:Questions On... God]]
[[Category:Questions On... Other Religions, Religion in General]]
[[Category:Questions On... Krsna, His Expansions, Associates, Paraphernalia]]
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="ConversationonTraintoAllahabadJanuary111977India_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="27" link="Conversation on Train to Allahabad -- January 11, 1977, India" link_text="Conversation on Train to Allahabad -- January 11, 1977, India">
<div class="heading">"This is the Bible," and "This is the Bhagavad-gītā."
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation on Train to Allahabad -- January 11, 1977, India|Conversation on Train to Allahabad -- January 11, 1977, India]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rāmeśvara: This man was saying that in the Bible there is a description of God speaking to Moses and Abraham, and He identified Himself as Jehovah, not Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is the main point, that what God said.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: What God said? He told Abraham to go to Israel and to worship only Him. He said, "There shall be no other Gods. Just Me." And then He told Moses the Ten Commandments.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So God said that... God must say. So you say God: Jehovah; and we say God: Kṛṣṇa. What is the wrong?</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: "The wrong is that Kṛṣṇa was a man who lived on earth five hundred thousand years ago and..."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So Jehovah was God.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So that means He was God, you are man, how you are hearing from Him?</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Because it's in the Bible.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: It's in the Bible. Then, that whatever is the... We can say the same way, "It is in the Bhagavad Gītā." What is the wrong there?</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: What can be said?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: "This is the Bible," and "This is the Bhagavad-gītā."</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: "But history documents that Kṛṣṇa came to earth as a man."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. So do you mean to say God cannot come as man? And Jehovah came as God?</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: "But in the Bible God revealed a certain aspect of Himself, and the personality of Kṛṣṇa seems to be very different from this."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: In which way different?</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: "Because He had all these affairs with the gopīs. He was very different."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: God will be just like...</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: "And He was a king with sixteen thousand wives. That seems to be very different from the God that is described in the Bible."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So if God... What is described in the Bible, God symptom, that he has no power to enjoy sixteen thousand wives? He's limited?</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: No. He's unlimited.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then, sixteen thousand, sixteen millions He can have. Why, if He's unlimited? What is wrong there? If He's unlimited, why sixteen thousand? If He marries sixteen million, sixteen billion, still, it is not sufficient. Otherwise there is no meaning of unlimited. Why you restrict God to sixteen or one? God is under your restriction, and He's still unlimited? That means you do not know what is God. You do not know what is God. You are mistaken.</p>
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