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<div class="heading">From a distant place, if you see that a railway engine is coming, you'll see the light. So a rascal will say, "A light is coming." (laughter) But one who knows, he will say a train is coming. So it is less intelligent. That's all. A rascal will say light is coming. That's all. So they are all rascals. They have no sufficient knowledge.
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Viṣṇujana: There are people not here who don't agree, who say God can be realized as a clear light or an abstract anathema.

Prabhupāda: That is for the less intelligent. Less intelligent. Just like from a distant place, if you see that a railway engine is coming, you'll see the light. So a rascal will say: "A light is coming." (laughter) But one who knows, he will say: "A train is coming." So it is less intelligent. That's all. A rascal will say light is coming. That's all. So they are all rascals. They have no sufficient knowledge. What do you think?

Viṣṇujana: Yes.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Tell them that, "You are all rascals." (laughter) "You just come and learn here from us. Then you say what is God. You have no knowledge." Just like somebody says that the sunlight, the dazzling sunlight. 

Clear sun planet is there. And because they cannot enter even in the moon planet, how they can enter in the sun planet? If they enter sun planet, they will find that there is a person whose bodily effulgence is this sunlight. Similarly, the original person, Kṛṣṇa, has got His effulgence. We get information from ''Brahma-saṁhitā, yasya prabhā prabhavato jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi'' (Bs. 5.40). Just like the sun-god is diffusing the effulgence of his bodily light in this universe, in one universe, similarly, the original person, He is diffusing that light. 

So those who are less intelligent, they simply can see that light; therefore they say light. But in the Vedic literature there is information that you have to search out the Supreme Person penetrating the light. In the ''Īśopaniṣad'' it says, "My dear Lord, please wind up this effulgent light so that I can see Your face actually." That is stated in the Vedic literature. 

So originally the Absolute Supreme Truth is a person. If you want proof from Vedas, there is proof. ''Bhagavad-gītā'' is proof. Why should we accept a third-class man who is speaking something against? Is that man greater than Kṛṣṇa? Then why shall I talk about him? He's not important even an ordinary man. We shall treat all these persons less intelligent, foolish. They have no perfect knowledge of the Absolute Truth. What do you think?

Viṣṇujana: The world needs Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Viṣṇujana: The world has never had anything like Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Prabhupāda: Yes. They do not know. Less intelligent. ''Ajānam''. This very word is used in the ''Śrīmad . . . ajānata . . . jānata'' means with knowledge. ''A-jāna'', "a" is negative. Without any knowledge. And in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' you'll see that ''bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyatev'' ([[Vanisource:BG 7.19 (1972)|BG 7.19]]). These less intelligent class of men, they are searching after the Absolute Truth. That is also creditable. They are searching. But they have not come to the right point. The right point is here, as Kṛṣṇa says, that "After many, many births of research work, when he actually becomes a wise man, he surrenders unto Me," ''vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti'' ([[Vanisource:BG 7.19 (1972)|BG 7.19]]), that "Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa, is everything." That is stated in the ''Bhagavad-gītā''. 

So ultimate knowledge means to understand the Supreme Person. What is the value if somebody has studied very elaborately the sunshine, but he has no access to enter into the sun planet or to understand the sun-god within? Is it a very enlightenment? Suppose the sunshine is all-pervading the universe. One has studied the sunshine very nicely. That man, and one has entered the sun planet and seen the sun-god, who is better? Who is better?

Viṣṇujana: That man who has the knowledge.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Who has entered the sun planet and seen the sun-god, he is better. This is common sense. So, you will have more ''kīrtana''?</p>
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