Ian Polsen, July 31, 1972, London: It is called Studies in Comparative Religion. And I can leave the… I have no interest in this magazine except that I subscribed to it.
Prabhupada: Hm. Comparative religion, from our point of view, that there cannot be many religions. We define religion as the law given by God. So we understand from Bhagavad-gita that God says, Krishna says, man-mana bhava mad-bhaktah, mad-yaji mam namaskuru: “Always think of Me, become My devotee, offer your obeisances unto Me.”
So any religion that has no conception of God, how he can think of God? If I think of something, that something must be known to me; otherwise how can I think of it? If I imagine something, that is not wanted. My imagination of God… God is not a thing to be imagined by me. He is a concrete thing. Therefore according to our philosophy, any so-called religion which has no conception of God, that is not religion. That is simply mental speculation. Full Conversation
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