Bill Schubert
"So people, they sometimes say, "Can you show me God? Have you seen God?" These questions sometimes we meet. So the answer is here. Yes, you can see God. Everyone can see God. I am also seeing God. But there must be the qualification.
Suppose a motorcar is there, something is wrong there. Everyone is seeing. But one engineer or mechanic, he sees differently. Therefore we have to go there. "What is wrong in this car? It is not running." He immediately touches some machine part; it runs.
So these fools, they do not know that "How I can see God if I have not the qualification?" The machine has gone wrong, I am seeing the machine. And the engineer, the mechanic, he is also seeing the machine. But his seeing and my seeing is different. He's qualified to see. Therefore when the machine has gone wrong, immediately he touches some part, it runs. So if for a machine we require so much qualification, and we want to see God without any qualification?
Just see the fun. Without any qualification. They are so fool, that they want to see God with their nuisance qualification.
So what is the actual qualification to see God?
The actual qualification to see God is described in the Brahma-Samhita: premanjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santah sadaiva hrdayesu vilokayanti. Those who are saintly persons and in ecstatic love with Krishna -- they are seeing Him twenty-four hours a day. That is not very difficult to understand. If you love somebody, you are seeing him or her always. Is it not? So to see Krishna requires the qualification of love. Then Krishna will be visible twenty-four hours a day. He'll talk with you. These things are described in Bhagavad Gita - 10.10:- Tesam satata-yuktanam bhajatam priti-purvakam dadami buddhi-yogam tam: "To those who are constantly devoted to serving Me with love, I give intelligence." That means He talks. "I give intelligence." Unless He talks, how can He give intelligence -- "You do this" So you have to qualify yourself to see and hear Krishna. Krishna is always present."
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Bhakti-devi dasi: Have you ever seen Krsna?
Prabhupada: Yes.
Bhakti-devi dasi: You have?
Prabhupada: Daily. Every moment.
[Room Conversation - July 4, 1972, New York]