Professor Lacombe: The notions of Brahman and ātman both in Śaṅkara and Rāmānuja. That one is not out of print. It is called in French L'Absolute selons les Vedānta.
Prabhupāda: But Śaṅkarācārya has accepted Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Sa bhagavān svayaṁ kṛṣṇaḥ devakī-putraḥ. He has written like that in his comment on Bhagavad-gītā.
Professor Lacombe: Bhagavad-gītā, yes.
Prabhupāda: Yes. So . . . and all the ācāryas, Vaiṣṇava ācāryas, they accept Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So practically, amongst the authorities, Indian ācāryas, everyone accepts Kṛṣṇa the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Rāmānujācārya has written his bhāṣya on Bhagavad-gītā.
Professor Lacombe: I read it. Yes. And Śaṅkara's also. Both.
Prabhupāda: Rāmānujācārya has not written. Śaṅkara has written. Śarīraka-bhāṣya, Vedānta-sūtra. He has written comment on Bhagavad-gītā.
Professor Lacombe: Yes, and Rāmānuja.
Prabhupāda: Rāmānujācārya also. Also Śrīdhara Svāmī. Śrīdhara Svāmī, he has written. He belongs to Viṣṇu Svāmī–sampradāya. And our Gauḍīya-Vaiṣṇava, Viśvanātha Cakravartī, he has written comments. And Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa, Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura.
Professor Lacombe: Oh, yes, there is long list of commentaries on the Gītā.
Prabhupāda: Yes. There are ten ṭīkās.
Professor Lacombe: This is published . . .?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Professor Lacombe: Where is it printed?
Bhagavān: It is printed in Japan. And we have our publishing house in New York.
Professor Lacombe: In New York. Yes. This is the second volume of the first . . . Ādi-līlā.
Prabhupāda: Yes. This is second. Ādi-līlā, yes.
Bhagavān: You are familiar with Caitanya Mahāprabhu's philosophy?
Professor Lacombe: Yes. You see, I started Sanskrit and Indian studies in 1929, when we were abroad.
Prabhupāda: You have been in India several times.
Professor Lacombe: Many times, yes.
Prabhupāda: Where did you stay generally?
Professor Lacombe: In several places, but mainly in Calcutta.