Acyutānanda: Theology or Theosophy?
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Acyutānanda: Theosophy?
Prabhupāda: No, theology.
Śrutakīrti: Theology. Theologian.
Prabhupāda: Theosophy and theology is practically the same.
Prajāpati: No, theosophy is nonsense Buddhist...
Prabhupāda: But according to academic order, logic is the preliminary study of philosophy. Our, our professor, Dr. Watt (?), he defined like that. In 1917...-(Aside:) Come on.-There was the governor in Bengal, Lord Ronaldsey (?), Marquis of Zetland. He was a Scottish man. And our college was Scottish Churches College-(aside:) Get the light. So... don't lean. You'll feel sleep. Just like sit my Guru Mahārāja. Show the picture. Be... Become my Guru Mahārāja. Yes. That sitting is the yogāsana. I am gone to hell. (laughter) You are young men. You learn from my Guru Mahārāja.
Pañcadraviḍa: No leaning.
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Pañcadraviḍa: No leaning.
Prabhupāda: No. You'll never see any picture, he was leaning. So that Lord Ronaldsey (?) was very good scholar. So we were... When he was invited, he was taken to all the classes. So I was, at that time, in the second year. So I took permission to sit down in the first benches. The... Our college was very big. So in each class there were 150 students. (break) Where is...
Brahmānanda: Tamāla Kṛṣṇa is taking a bath.
Prabhupāda: So they were giving role number according to admission. So I did not know that. So my role number was 105. So I thought it very incon... "I have to sit down after one hundred students?" So I took one certificate from Dr. Karttika Chandra Bose, who became, later on, my boss. Because he was our father's friend, so "Give me one certificate in this way, that I am hard of hearing. I must be given first row seat." So he gave immediately certificate. What is that?
Śrutakīrti: Some juice.
Jagajīvana: Some juice and some watermelon, Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: Oh, all right. Give it.
Acyutānanda: What does theology say?
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Acyutānanda: What does theology mean.
Prabhupāda: Just explain.
Prajāpati: This is the study of faithful men understanding themselves through the medium of the church.
Prabhupāda: Now you discuss whether this point is very nice.
Acyutānanda: So what is the authority?
Prajāpati: The authority is the Christian tradition.
Acyutānanda: The Bible.
Prabhupāda: Yes. When he says church, that means authority, Bible.
Acyutānanda: The Bible.
Prajāpati: No, part. The Bible is part.
Acyutānanda: Only part, one part.
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Acyutānanda: He says the Bible is not... The Bible is not the complete authority?
Prajāpati: No, it's the tradition of the church through the great founding fathers, the great theologians up until the present day.
Viṣṇujana: Sādhu, śāstra, guru.
Prabhupāda: No... Vāk...
Prajāpati: Yes, unfortunately no guru.
Prabhupāda: Church... Church is following Bible.
Prajāpati: Yes.
Prabhupāda: So ultimately Bible becomes authority.
Prajāpati: In certain segments of Christianity, not all.