Prabhupāda: No, believe in God, that is everyone doing. So what is their special credit? Why do they touch Bhagavad-gītā and say: "My imagination of God is different"? How cheating it is. If your imagination of God is different, why do you touch Bhagavad-gītā and declare yourself that "I am a student of Bhagavad-gītā. My life is also for Gītā"?
Dr. Patel: Even when Tilak . . . tilak says he follows Bhagavad-gītā always.
Prabhupāda: Everyone says that. But nobody says . . .
Dr. Patel: But he follows a part of it, not the whole thing.
Prabhupāda: Nobody says that, "Here is God: Kṛṣṇa." That is their fault.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: (aside:) You can bring the car down at ten o'clock.
Prabhupāda: Nobody says: "Here is God." That is, perhaps . . . we Vaiṣṇavas say, I am preaching. Perhaps I am first preacher to the world, that "Here is God."
Dr. Patel: Some of these great Vaiṣṇava ācāryas were doing interpretation of Bhagavad-gītā . . .
Prabhupāda: Then who is ācārya except the Vaiṣṇava ācārya? (laughter) All loafer class. All loafer class. They're not ācāryas. Except these Vaiṣṇava ācāryas, who is ācārya? They're not ācāryas. Ācāryaṁ māṁ vijānīyān (SB 11.17.27).
Dr. Patel: But I read your Bhagavad-gītā, and after that, I read Rāmānuja's. They more or less the same . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: Same thing. There is no difference between the ācāryas. Then how he becomes ācārya if there is difference of opinion? They cannot be ācārya.