26 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?
SRILA PRABHUPADA: Yes.
SYAMASUNDARA: How do we know when we are pleasing
God?
SRILA PRABHUPADA: 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 en-
ergy. 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.
SRILA PRABHUPADA: Yes.
DEVOTEE: It comes easier.
SRILA PRABHUPADA: You have to go through God’s
representative.

yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasadah
“By the mercy of the spiritual master one is benedicted by
the mercy of Krsna.” 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 representa-
tive?
SRILA PRABHUPADA: 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.
