How do I know the things I know?

[Akincana Krishna dasa]

God is not easy to realize. That was the meaning of "not cheap."

Let's say I want to verify the theory of relativity. I don't like to accept things without knowing it's true for myself. I can't just accept the authority of Einstein. I want to really know for myself.

So is verifying the theory of relativity a really easy thing to do? Is that verification something any fool off the street can do for themselves, so that it can be proved?

Verifying something like that takes serious study and discipline. Most people just accept it on authority.

In the same way, if you're not ready to accept the God theory on authority, you need to verify God' existence for yourself, it's certainly possible. But it's a really serious thing to do. Any fool off the street can't demand proof for God - most people have no clue what or who God even is. Realizing God takes serious study and discipline. But it's certainly possible, just as many many spiritual scientists have experienced God in the past.

In other words, when people say "where's the proof?" it sounds as childish as a crazy theist coming into this forum and saying "I haven't seen any monkey's giving birth to human's lately - evolution is so dumb! where's the proof?"

What' you're going to say to that person are things like "do you have any understanding of what evolution is? have you taken 5 minutes to study it? where do you get off even talking about it, forget about claiming it's not true?"