Srila Prabhupada, New York, December 16, 1966: One Arya-samajist… You see, in the Hindu society since a very long time, especially since the days of India’s destruction of the original culture, so many offshoots they have come out under the name of so many isms.
So there is one section who are called Arya-samajists. Their business is only to criticize all the scriptures. That is their business. So one of the member of the Arya-samajis, he… They do not favor the temple worship. So he asked me, “Swamiji, do you think God eats?” I said, “Yes.” “Then how do you think?”
“Because God says, ‘I eat.’ ” Here is, Krishna says, asnami. So God says, “I eat.” Who are you that He does not eat? I replied him like that. Who are you? You say that God does not eat, but here God says, “I eat.”
So whom shall I believe, a loafer like you, or Krishna? I am a third person, and you are also a third person, and Krishna is recognized the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Whom shall I believe? I accept that I am the fool number one, but whom shall I accept, you or Krishna? You said that… What you are? What is your position? You are an ordinary man. So you say that God does not eat, but God says, “I eat.” Why shall I not believe?
So this is the question of faith. This is the question of faith. And without faith, you cannot reach the kingdom of God.
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