Prabhupāda: But he... Just like... It is not the question of discover, but because you are existing, you must have come from a father. That is science. It is not the question of finding out a father. Without father, there is no existence of you. It is not the question of finding out a father. Father must be there. This is science. Without father, is there any existence of any man or any animal? What your science says? Is it possible that anyone is existing without a father? What do you think?
Guest (4): I was just wondering, um, do you believe in...
Prabhupāda: Who is there independently existing without having a father? What is that science?
Guest (2): It's not necessarily in the science itself...
Prabhupāda: No, no, this is a sign, that if there is a man, he must have a father. This is science. So what is your opinion about this science?
Guest (1): I see it as a straight, deductive logic. If there is a...
Prabhupāda: ...son, there must be father. That is science.
Guest (1): Don't you think this kind of reasoning is a deductive logic rather than inductive?
Prabhupāda: No, what is the reasoning yours, that you deny father?
Guest (3): The father must have a father too, mustn't he?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Similarly, there must be supreme father.
Guest (3): Well, who is the supreme father's father?
Prabhupāda: Yes, that is enquiry, that you have got your father, your father has got father, he has got his father, he has got... Who is the supreme father? He is God.
Guest (1): Who is God's father?
Prabhupāda: Nobody is His father. That is God. God is everyone's father, but He is without father. That is God. So long one has got father, he is not God. When you come to the point that here is the person who has no father—He is independent—that is God. The definition of God is given in the Vedic literature.
- īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ
- sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ
- anādir ādir govindaḥ
- sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam
- (Bs. 5.1)
Anādi means He has no beginning. But He is the beginning of everything. This is simple definition of God. Anādi... Anādi means He has no beginning. But He is the beginning of everything. Anādir ādir govindaḥ sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam (Bs. 5.1), the cause of all causes.
Guest (1): It becomes a belief rather than a logic now, then, for when we think about the God. You were saying everybody has father, so why God, in exception, He hasn't got a father?
Prabhupāda: Therefore He is God, that He can exist without father. But you cannot exist without father. That is the difference between you and God.