Reporter (2): Somebody must have seen Kṛṣṇa . . .
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Reporter (2): . . . to actually paint Him.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Seen Kṛṣṇa. Just like Kṛṣṇa, when He was present on this earth, so many people saw Him. And since then, there are so many temples of Kṛṣṇa's Deity, Kṛṣṇa's form. The same thing as it is stated in the Vedic literature, they saw also personally, and they made statues, and they are being worshiped regularly. There are thousands of thousands of temples of Kṛṣṇa. They are worshiped.
Reporter (2): But has anybody actually seen Kṛṣṇa?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Reporter (2): Today?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Just like your grandfather has seen your father, or your father has seen your grandfather. You may not have seen, but your father can describe about your grandfather, "My father was like this, like this, like this." What is the difficulty?
Satsvarūpa: He asked if anyone now has seen Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupāda: How now one can see? He has to see through the paramparā, succession. You have not seen your great-grandfather. How do you know that you are? How do you know?
Reporter (2): That my great-grandfather . . .
Prabhupāda: Great-grandfather or his father, you have not seen. How do you believe?
Reporter (2): By your parents telling you.
Prabhupāda: Yes. So therefore you have to receive the knowledge from the authorities, paramparā.
Reporter (2): But Kṛṣṇa is . . . supposedly, Kṛṣṇa is eternal or, that is, indestructible. So surely He must be existing today.
Prabhupāda: Yes, Kṛṣṇa is existing. Just like at night the sun is existing, but you have no eyes to see him. That does not mean sun does not exist. It is your deficiency. You cannot see.
Reporter (2): So we need divine sight.
Prabhupāda: Whatever it may be, you require qualification. Similarly, Kṛṣṇa is always existing. You require the qualification. That is described in the . . . premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu vilokayanti (Bs. 5.38): "Those who are saintly person and in ecstatic love with Kṛṣṇa, they are seeing twenty-four hours Kṛṣṇa." That is not very difficult to understand. If you love somebody, you are seeing him or her always. Is it not?
Reporter (2): That's so.