Dr. Patel: . . . vacanaṁ tava.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Na ca tasmān manuṣyeṣu kaścin me priya-kṛttamaḥ (BG 18.69). (Hindi) If we want to be recognized by Kṛṣṇa, this is the simple process: go and flatter persons, "Please hear some words from Bhāgavata," that's all. And actually we are doing that. We are not learned, very scholarly.
Dr. Patel: Sir, I read your commentary on Bhagavad-gītā and Rāmānujācārya's. They are absolutely parallel.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Dr. Patel: I think you have taken out of it . . . (laughter)
Prabhupāda: How can I . . .
Dr. Patel: I am just joking.
Prabhupāda: No, no. Our process is to take from the ācāryas. We are not manufacturing. We are not so fools and rascals that we have to manufacture. We have to take the remnants of foodstuff given by the ācārya and explain in the modern way so that people may . . . that is our business.
Dr. Patel: Completely parallel.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Why should I . . . if it is parallel, then it is my success.
Brahmānanda: Yes. It's very complimentary.
Dr. Patel: His Sanskrit is very wonderful. Ācārya . . .
Prabhupāda: If it is parallel, that is my success. And if it is not parallel, then it is useless. But they want to give something of his own foolish ideas. That has become nowadays, scholars. If you give some foolish idea—"Oh, he is a great philosopher." That's it. And our process is, evaṁ paramparā-prāptam imam rājarṣayo (BG 4.2). We have to receive from the a . . . ācāryopāsanam. That is the way. And this Subodhinī-ṭīkā, Vallabhācārya, as soon as he says, "I have done something better than Śrīdhara Svāmī," immediately Caitanya Mahāprabhu rejected him: "Oh, you have done better than Śrīdhara Svāmī?"
Dr. Patel: Śrīdhara Svāmī has made it more or less . . .
Prabhupāda: Whatever it may be, you cannot reject. You cannot say that "I have done better than Śrīdhara Svāmī." If you simply following the footprints of Śrīdhara Svāmī, that is vaiśakti, not that "I have done better than him."
Dr. Patel: All Vaiṣṇava ācāryas are more or less parallel.
Prabhupāda: Yes.