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Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers
have to put yourself in a situation—in which God will be revealed. It is not that by some method you can ask God, “Please come. I will see You.” No, God is not your order carrier.
BOB:  You must please God for Him to reveal Himself. Is that correct?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Yes.
ŚYĀMASUNDARA:  How do we know when we are pleasing God?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  When we see Him. Then you will understand. Just as, when you eat, you do not require to ask anyone whether you are feeling strength or your hunger is satisfied. If you eat, you understand that you are feeling energy. You don't need to inquire from anyone. Similarly, if you actually serve God, then you will understand, “God is dictating to me. God is there. I am seeing God.”
A DEVOTEE:  Or God's representative.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Yes.
DEVOTEE:  It comes easier.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  You have to go through God's representative.
yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādaḥ
“By the mercy of the spiritual master one is benedicted by the mercy of Kṛṣṇa.” If you please God's representative, then automatically God becomes pleased, and thus you can directly see Him.
AN INDIAN GENTLEMAN:  How to please God's representative?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  You have to carry out his orders, that's all. God's representative is the  guru . He asks you to do this, to do that—if you do that, that is pleasing.