Prabhupada was pleased to talk of his friend, Krishna

Satsvarupa Dasa: There were many other occasions when we could see that Prabhupada was pleased to talk of his friend, Krishna. One devotee said, When I first heard Prabhupada talk about Krishna, it was like someone talking of their most intimate friend. It wasn't like talking about something he read in the scriptures. Prabhupada took pleasure in Krishna's Vrindavana pastimes, and he also loved to defend the philosophy and assert that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That was a prominent pleasure for Prabhupada. In one 1966 lecture, he said that Krishna told Arjuna, "I spoke this Bhagavad-gita forty million years ago to the sun god." Then Prabhupada said, "Who could say that but Krishna? If I say that I made a speech about Bhagavad-gita forty million years ago, you will say, Oh, Swami is speaking nonsense, but when Krishna says it, you can't say that because He's the Personality of Godhead." Prabhupada also said that "Krishna claims, I am the highest truth, there is no one higher than Me." Prabhupada said, "Now if I were to say that I am the greatest, although I'm limited in so many ways, you will say, Oh, Swamiji is so proud. It will be blasphemy if I say like that." In this way, Srila Prabhupada was always taking pleasure in talking about Krishna, Krishna's philosophy, and Krishna's authority.