Prabhupada’s Teachings:  A “Package Deal”

A doubtful person inquired and got answers from Swamiji.  Gradually, he began to accept whatever Prabhupada said.  He wanted us to accept everything, a “package deal”: the demigods in the higher planets, four-armed forms, thousand-headed forms, and so on.  Everything started to be part of the same axiomatic truth – whatever was in the Vedas, whatever was taught by the spiritual master.  One did not get to pick and choose.  Besides, there was a reason why everything was believable.  If it was not “believable” to you, that is also understandable.  You did not have to comprehend it with your own brain – it was often beyond you.  Once you accepted these premises, then you accepted particular teachings that sounded strange to outsiders on the principle of acintya, inconceivable knowledge.  And as one came to learn, knowledge born of these senses was defective.  The realities of other worlds didn’t have to tally with our world.  The guru knew what was right.