Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: One of the Ten Commandments, Śrīla Prabhupāda, is that one should not take the name of God in vain. And they argue that when we chant the holy name, they say: "You are chanting, chanting, chanting all the time, but this is taking the name in vain."
Prabhupāda: Why vain? Don't you find difference between you and me? Why it is vain? Don't you find what is the difference between you and me? So I . . . "Do you think that I am a foolish man, that I am chanting, 'Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa' without any profit? So you can think, because you are a rascal, but I know my business."
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Jaya.
Prabhupāda: You should reply like that.
Bhagavān: Last night, when you gave him the example that the father is beyond the experience of the child . . .
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Bhagavān: . . . at that point, he stopped arguing.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. And mother is the only evidence. That's all. Similarly, acintyaḥ khalu ye bhava na tāṁs tarkeṇa yojayet (CC Adi 17.308). Śāstra says that, "What is beyond your experience, you don't argue on that point." You go to the authority and take it. Why you . . . should you argue? It is beyond your experience. Therefore you must find out who can give you the experience. Tad vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum eva abhigacchet (MU 1.2.12). But don't stop there that, "It is beyond my experience; therefore I should not have experience." This is foolishness. If it is beyond your experience, then go to a person who has got experience and take from him. Suppose if I am in this park, I do not know which way to go; it is beyond my experience. Then I ask one gentleman, "Where shall I go?" He'll say: "Please go this way." This is the way. Why should you stop and think others also, that God is beyond his experience also? Why? It may be beyond your experience, but unless you go to a person who has got actually experience, how can you get the experience? (pause)
Bhagavān: He seemed frustrated that he says he's tried, but he hasn't found. He was in India for twenty-five years.
Prabhupāda: Well, the thing is that this, actually, to understand Kṛṣṇa is not easy job. Kṛṣṇa says, manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye (BG 7.3): "Out of millions." But Caitanya Mahāprabhu's mercy, we are trying to understand little, little. Otherwise, it is very difficult to understand it. And if there is any understanding of God, that is in this Vaiṣṇava-sampradāya, especially in this Gauḍīya-Vaiṣṇava-sampradāya. Others, they do not know. They cannot know. Kṛṣṇa will never reveal to them. Sevonmukhe hi jihvādau svayam eva sphuraty adaḥ (Brs. 1.2.234). If you engage your tongue in His service, then God reveals to you. You cannot understand God.