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is the nature of that Supreme Being? Is He a dead stone or a living entity? That is also explained.  Janmādy asya yato 'nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ svarāṭ  [ Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  1.1.1]: the Supreme Being is fully cognizant of everything, directly and indirectly. Unless He is fully cognizant of everything, He cannot be God. Then the question that you raised comes, Who taught God? And that is also answered.  Svarāṭ : He is fully independent. He does not need to take lessons from anyone. That is God. If one needs to take lessons from others, he is not God. Kṛṣṇa spoke the  Bhagavad-gītā , and He did not have to learn it from anyone. I had to learn it from my spiritual master, but Kṛṣṇa did not have to learn it from anyone. One who does not need to take lessons from others is God.
Mr. O'Grady:  Where does human love come in?
Śrīla Prabhupāda:  Everything is coming from God. Being part and parcel of God, we manifest partial love because the original love is there in Him. Nothing can exist if it is not in God; therefore love is there in God.
Mr. O'Grady:  And manifestations of love are manifestations of God?
Śrīla Prabhupāda:  Unless the loving propensity is there in God, how can we manifest it? A son born of a particular father has the symptoms of the father. Because the loving propensity is in God, we have that same propensity.
Mr. O'Grady:  Maybe love is generated in you by the need.
Śrīla Prabhupāda:  No, there is no question of “maybe.” We are defining God in absolute terms.  Janmādy asya yataḥ : God is He from whom everything has emanated. The fighting propensity is also there in God, but His fighting and His loving are absolute. In the material world we experience that fighting is just the opposite of loving, but in God the fighting propensity and the loving propensity are one and the same. That is the meaning of “absolute.” We learn from the Vedic scriptures that when the so-called enemies of God are killed by God, they attain liberation.
Mr. O'Grady:  Is it possible to arrive at this understanding of God alone?
Śrīla Prabhupāda:  No. Therefore we have cited this verse:  tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigacchet . The word  abhigacchet  means “must.” It is not possible alone. In Sanskrit grammar this is called the  vidhilin  form of a verb, and this form is used when there is no choice. The word  abhigacchet  means that one must approach a  guru . That is the Vedic version. Therefore in the  Bhagavad-gītā  you will find that Arjuna was talking to Kṛṣṇa, but when he saw that things were not being resolved, he surrendered himself to Kṛṣṇa and accepted Him as his guru.