Guest (5): One other question I have. That is the question earlier... That is the question of authority. We have a spiritual master who takes it upon himself to tell us, the ignorant, what to do. What things makes the spiritual master realize that he is the one master to show the ignorant that this is the path?
Prabhupāda: What is that?
Puṣṭa-kṛṣṇa: His question is that...
Prabhupāda: God is infinite?
Puṣṭa-kṛṣṇa: What is the special quality that makes one a spiritual master to describe the infinite when God is beyond speculation?
Prabhupāda: God is beyond speculation, that's it. But the spiritual master says what God says. He does not change. That is spiritual master. Just like a child, he asks his father, "Father, what is this?" The father says, "My dear child, it is microphone." So when the child says, "It is microphone," this is correct, although he is child. So spiritual master means he says in toto what he hears from God. That's all. That is spiritual master. He does not make any speculation. That is the qualification of spiritual master. He speaks what he has heard from God. That's all.
Guest (5): But isn't that an assumption that he has heard from God, not acts from his own conditioning?
Prabhupāda: God cannot be all. God is one. God means He has no equal, He has no..., nobody above Him. That is God, asamaurdhva. Nobody is more than God; nobody is equal to God. Therefore God is one.