Prabhupāda: For perfect knowledge you have to approach the perfect. We accept Lord Kṛṣṇa as the perfect, and His bona fide representative is also perfect. How he is perfect? Kṛṣṇa may be perfect, one may admit, but how His bona fide representative is also perfect? So the answer is the bona fide representative of Kṛṣṇa, he does not say anything beyond Kṛṣṇa. That is perfect. He may be imperfect, it doesn't matter. But he is receiving knowledge from the perfect, and he's simply repeating that knowledge. That is the instruction of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Yāre dekha tāre kaha . . . kaha kṛṣṇa-kathā. Yāre dekha tāre kaha kṛṣṇa-kathā.
- āmāra ājñāya guru hañā tāra' ei deśa
- yāre dekha, tāre kaha 'kṛṣṇa'-upadeśa
- (CC Madhya 7.128)
You don't speak your upadeśa, your instruction. That is nonsense. What you are? That is the defect of the modern civilization. They simply want to instruct by his experience. But what is your experience? They're all imperfect. But they are persisting, "No, we cannot accept any knowledge without experiment." Is it not the position. Eh?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Experiments . . .
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: . . . they're after.
Prabhupāda: Now, that the scientists will say: "Why we shall accept Kṛṣṇa's version as perfect?" Do they not say like that?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes, they ask.
Prabhupāda: But they cannot give any perfect information, their theory. So our process is to take Kṛṣṇa . . . not only our, this is the paramparā system. All the ācāryas—Rāmānujācārya, Madhvācārya—they take Kṛṣṇa's version as perfect.