The Vedas explain that if we want to know about things beyond the jurisdiction of our experience - beyond the limitations of human perception and cognition - the process is to hear from one who knows. The Supreme Lord Himself first uttered the transcendental knowledge of Vedas.The Lord, the supremely powerful being, cannot fall under the influence of any other force. As a logical consequence, His knowledge must be perfect. And anyone who transmits that knowledge without change gives the same perfect knowledge. We need only to accept this proposition theoretically to progress in our understanding of Vedic thought.

The idea is that the perfect knowledge of the Vedas has been preserved over time by transmission through an unbroken chain of spiritual masters. Srila Prabhupada represents one such disciple in a chain of succession. That succession goes back thousands of years to Lord Krishna Himself. Thus the knowledge found within Srila Prabhupada’s books is nondifferent from that which was originally imparted by the Supreme Lord. Srila Prabhupada did not manufacture “truths.” He merely delivered the timeless teachings of the original Vedas without addition, deletion or change.