God Isn't Known By Experimenting - Prabhupada 0300

700515 - Lecture ISO 10 - Los Angeles

So this is material policy, to try to understand things by his own experience. Pratyakṣa, direct—experimental knowledge. The Vedic understanding is different. It is śruti. Śruti means to hear from authoritative source. That is real knowledge. Just like I have given many times this example that if you want to know your father by experimental knowledge, is it possible? Not possible. Then how to know my father? By hearing from the authority, mother. That's all. Simple thing.

Similarly, things which are beyond our experimental knowledge you should not try to understand by your imperfect senses. That is not possible. If you cannot know your material father by experimental knowledge, how you can know the supreme father by experimental knowledge? The original father . . . the father of the father, father, father, you go on searching father, and the original father is Kṛṣṇa.