Whom Shall We Believe - Prabhupada 0809

661216 - Lecture BG 09.26-27 - New York

So one of the member of the Ārya-samājis, he . . . they do not favor the temple worship. So he asked me, "Swāmījī, do you think God eats?" I said: "Yes." "Then how do you think?" "Because God says, 'I eat.' " Here is, Kṛṣṇa says, aśnāmi. "So God says: 'I eat.' Who are you that He does not eat?" I replied him like that. "Who are you? You say that God does not eat, but here God says, 'I eat.' So whom shall I believe—a loafer like you, or Kṛṣṇa? (laughter) I am a third person, and you are also a third person, and Kṛṣṇa is recognized the Supreme Personality of God. Whom shall I believe? I am . . . I accept that I am the fool number one, but whom shall I accept, you or Kṛṣṇa? You said that . . . what you are? What is your position? You are an ordinary man. So you say that God does not eat, but God says, 'I eat.' Why shall I not believe?"