Introduction B)
led by Sankaracarya. And there is another class of transcenden-
talist, called Vaisnavas, like Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya, Visnu-
svami. Both the Sankara-sampradaya and the Vaisnava-sampra-
daya have accepted Krsna as the Supreme Personality of God-
head. Sankaracarya is supposed to be an impersonalist who
preached impersonalism, impersonal Brahman, but it is a fact
that he is a covered personalist. In his commentary on the
Bhagavad-gitd he wrote: ‘Narayana, the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, is beyond this cosmic manifestation.” And then again
he confirms, ‘““That Supreme Personality of Godhead, Narayana,
is Krsna. He has come as the Son of Devaki and Vasudeva.” He
has particularly mentioned the names of His father and mother.
So Krsna is accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead by
all transcendentalists. There is no doubt about it. Our source of
knowledge in Krsna Consciousness is directly from Krsna,
Bhagavad-gita. We have published Bhagavad Gita As It Is, be-
cause we accept Krsna as He is speaking without any inter-
pretation. That is Vedic knowledge. Since the Vedic knowledge is
pure, we accept it. Whatever Krsna says, we accept. This is Krsna
Consciousness. That saves much time. If you accept the right
authority or the source of knowledge, then you save much
time. For example, there are two systems of knowledge in the
material world, inductive and deductive. From deductive, you
accept that man is mortal. Your father says man is mortal, your
sister says man is mortal, everyone says man is mortal—but you
do not experiment. You accépt it as fact that man is mortal. If
you want to research to find out whether man is mortal, you
have to study each and every man, and you may come to think
that there may be some man who is not dying, but you have
not seen him yet. So in this way your researching will never be
finished. This process is called in Sanskrit, droha, the ascending
process. If you want to attain knowledge by any personal en-
deavor, by exercising your imperfect senses, you will never come
to the right conclusions. That is not possible.

There is a statement in Brahma-samhita: Just ride on the air-
