"Sincere Atheist-Honest Thief"

December 4, 1973



Prabhupada: Very plain word. Avinasi tu tad viddhi. Just try to understand that thing which is spreading consciousness all over the body. Just like a small grain of poison. As soon as you take it, immediately it will spread all over the blood. Even a small grain. And then how much powerful is that spiritual spark?

Devotee (2): So the grain is carried by the blood. What is the spiritual spark carried by?

Prabhupada: Spiritual spark is not carried by, but he resides within the body. He is carried by his own karma, subtle, subtle desire is carried. Everyone is carried by his desire. Why did I come here, in America? I have got a desire to preach; therefore I've come. Otherwise I had no business to come here. So desire. So desire carries you. That is, the rascals, they do not know. Desire is there, they cannot see, but desire is there. Mind is there, intelligence is there; they cannot see. That is carried. The example is given, just like the aroma of a flower is being carried by the air. And nobody can see, but one can feel, "Oh, it is very good, nice aroma. Wherefrom it is coming?" But he has no eyes to see either the aroma or the air. Similarly, the soul after destruction of this body is being carried by the desire, but they have no eyes to see what is that desire, what is that soul, what is that intelligence. They are saying, "There is no soul." This is mostly stupidity.

Hrdayananda: So...

Prabhupada: Simply stupids.

Hrdayananda: So if someone is Krsna conscious, then nothing can be hidden from him.

Prabhupada: Ah?

Hrdayananda: If someone is Krsna conscious, then...

Prabhupada: Yes, because he learned from Krsna. Krsna says avinasi tu tad viddhi yena sarvam, na jayate na mriyate va..., na hanyate hanyamane sarire [Bg. 2.20]. So we are... Krsna consciousness means you are taking what Krsna says. Therefore... [break] And then you judge in your own way, you'll find, "Yes, it's all right." Avinasi tu tad viddhi yena sarvam idam tatam. At the present moment, because your, these blunt eyes cannot see the soul, you have to learn it by appreciation. Avagama. It is called avagama.(?) Appreciation. Just like Krsna says that tad viddhi, that, that thing which is spreading consciousness, that is soul. Now you can perceive there must be something which is now absent, otherwise why there is no consciousness? Where is the difficulty? If you do not see, you can't understand it. Just like the same example, when good aroma is carried. So somebody says, "This good aroma is coming because the air passing through a flower garden, therefore this aroma." Now this is a fact, but you cannot see the aroma or the air. But you hear from an experienced man. That is the way of understanding which is beyond your sense perception. But these rascals, simply they are depending on their blunt senses, these stupids, so-called scientists. Therefore they're stupids. They simply believe on their eyes. They do not know how much defective these eyes and senses are, incomplete. That they do not know. They believe on their defective senses. Aksaja. Aksaja, aks... Experiment. Everything experimented. Veda says don't try to explain which is beyond your sense. How you will explain? It is not possible. Acintyah khalu ye bhava na tams tarkena yojayet. It is acintya, it is beyond your conception. Why you are wasting your time?

Svarupa Damodara: But a scientist will say that "I can show you what the aroma looks like."

Prabhupada: They cannot show you, that is another stupidity. (indistinct) anything. Who can deny that Krsna says that avinasi tu tad viddhi yena sar..., there is a thing within the body which is eternal? And what is that thing which is spreading consciousness? And you show what is that thing which is spreading consciousness. Then I shall accept you as scientist.

Karandhara: They would say, "How can we believe Krsna?"

Prabhupada: No, you don't believe, that here is a fact! That there is something within the body which is spreading consciousness. That is eternal. There's no question of believing. It is a fact. Now you show, what is that fact? Where is that fact?

Svarupa Damodara: They'll say it's just biochemical reactions.

Prabhupada: Biochemical... You simply do it, rascal. You cannot do it. (Hrdayananda laughs) You rascal, simply speak, but you cannot do it. That is our contention.

Hrdayananda: Jaya.

Prabhupada: Therefore you are rascal. You speak something which is beyond your power.

Yasomatinandana: Prabhupada solves...

Prabhupada: Yes. Therefore it is simply cheating people. And we, Krsna conscious men, we want to stop these cheating, any way...

Karandhara: They'd say we also cannot prove the soul is eternal.

Prabhupada: No, there is proof. There is something. We accept it, but you don't accept it. There are so many things, there are so many things. You do not see, but still you accept it. Just like without father there cannot be son. Now you have not seen your father, but mother says, "Here is your father." You have to believe it. It is a fact.

Karandhara: But they can experience being a father themselves.

Prabhupada: Ah? Ah?

Karandhara: They can experience that, 'cause they can be a father themselves.

Prabhupada: They can be father themselves?

Karandhara: Yes.

Prabhupada: What is that? Without son how one becomes father?

Karandhara: No, but they... That example falls within the range of their experience, because they can also be a father.

Prabhupada: No, not to your experience. But a superior experience, say mother.

Devotee: Yes.

Prabhupada: Not your experience. You cannot say by experience who is your father. Your mother can say.

Karandhara: No, but the example that I have a father can be appreciated because I can also be a father.

Prabhupada: But therefore if that appreciation is there, that avinasi tu tad viddhi yena..., the consciousness is spreading from the soul, so you have to appreciate there must be something from which consciousness comes. That you cannot deny.

Karandhara: They say it is biochemical development.

Prabhupada: No, but then you replace consciousness by a biochemical combination. That you cannot do.

Devotee (2): When the baby is born dead.

Karandhara: But just because they say, "Because we can't do it yet..."

Prabhupada: No, no, no. You cannot do, therefore you are rascal. You're talking all nonsense. You cannot do it, how you speak?

Karandhara: Up till two hundred years ago they weren't able to fly...

Prabhupada: Want two hundred..., no, we want immediately, we don't want blank check. (devotees laugh) Rascal blank check.

Yasomatinandana: Prabhupada, we can go this way.

Prabhupada: Postdated blank check. (devotees laugh) We don't believe. We must have real cash.

Devotee (2): And then they will admit actually that their senses are...

Karandhara: No, then they'll want to see the soul...

Devotee: ...are limited.

Devotee: ...they want to see a soul as eternal.

Prabhupada: (aside:) Which way?

Devotee: Go to one life to another life.

Prabhupada: Which way?

Devotee: Which way?

Devotee: This.

Hrdayananda: Where is...?

Yasomatinandana: Prabhupada, actually this knowledge is so absolute, in the Bhagavad-gita it is said that pratyaksavagamam dharmyam. You can actually experience...

Prabhupada: Yeah.

Yasomatinandana: ...just by taking bhakti you can see that your purification comes...

Prabhupada: Ah.

Yasomatinandana: ...and actually intelligence comes from Krsna. So if actually one is sincere, then Krsna will give him intelligence that "Yes, actually there is a soul, and actually I'm the Supersoul."

Karandhara: That intelligence is defective

Prabhupada: No, no, my senses are defective. But the source from which I know, that is not defective. I cannot experimentally know who is my father. But the source from whom I understand, that is perfection.

Yasomatinandana: In other words they'll get confirmation within their heart. They'll be satisfied, that "Yes, Krsna is God," if they are sincere.

Prabhupada: Yeah. If they are sincere. That is the budha. Budha bhava-samanvitah [Bg. 10.8]. Others, rascals cannot (indistinct). Mudha naradhama. They cannot.

Devotee (2): They'll say you're sincerely brainwashed.

Prabhupada: Ah?

Devotee (2): They'll say you're sincerely brainwashed.

Prabhupada: Brainwashed? Why? These are facts.

Yasomatinandana: But we still have some basis...

Prabhupada: If you cannot reply, you're simply misrepresenting scientists. We say there must be something which is spreading consciousness. Now how can you deny it? It is not brainwash. There must be something. Now if you are scientist, you find out.

Hrdayananda: That which is spreading consciousness.

Prabhupada: Yes. What is that thing which is spreading consciousness?

Hrdayananda: So if they say it is the chemical, but they can't do that, they can't...

Prabhupada: Yes, you put the chemicals. Just like I have sent my car, it is not running, so they know how it will run. They know. Therefore I say, "But if you do not know, you're speaking nonsense. You do not know anything." And as soon as you are captured, you say "Yes, in future I shall know." What is this? The same, postdated blank check, which has no value. Will the postdated check, will it be accepted by anyone? Suppose you give me a postdated check. If I'm paying, what is this nonsense? This is all nonsense. "Future." (devotees laugh) No future, sir. Immediately. Cash payment.

Hrdayananda: So that's cheating.

Prabhupada: Ah. That is cheating.

Karandhara: But they'll say, "But you also cannot show us."

Prabhupada: No, I can show you. I say, there must be something. There must be something.

Karandhara: We say it's a spirit; they say...

Prabhupada: Whatever it may be there, I say "something." You find out that something. I say something. I don't say spirit, matter or anything. Something.

Karandhara: Yes, they say that they look...

Prabhupada: Ah, that is their cheating. Find out now, and I accept that they're scientists. Yes. Cash money, sir. Then I shall know that you are rich man. You want to cheat me with the paper?

Svarupa Damodara: That's why they'll say that "We are doing research."

Prabhupada: That means that... Then don't talk that you are scientists. You are student. You are trying to learn. You're student. You cannot say that you are scientists.

Hrdayananda: So regardless of our position, they are not qualified.

Prabhupada: Ah?

Hrdayananda: Yes.

Prabhupada: Their system is to remain a student and pose as teacher, their system. They're trying to learn it, and still they're posing as teacher. Teacher means one who knows. He does not know; still he poses in the post of a teacher.

Hrdayananda: So the system cannot be good because it does not purify their character. They still cheat.

Prabhupada: No, they're cheating simply. Little knowledge, cheating. Little knowledge.

Yasomatinandana: They're simply like neti neti. "Not this, not this."

Prabhupada: "Not this." Yes. By negation. Definition by negation. Not positive definition. They say "it is not this." But what it is they cannot say.

Devotee: Yes.

Prabhupada: That is their process.

Hrdayananda: It is not God but...

Prabhupada: Ah.

Karandhara: (indistinct)

Prabhupada: Ah?

Karandhara: Either they accept our evidence or...

Prabhupada: No, therefore they are fools. That is a fact. Any child can understand that... And even they're less than a child. If I say there is something, therefore there is consciousness, any boy can understand. But they cannot understand. Less than a boy.

Karandhara: They say there's no proof that that something...

Prabhupada: That is the proof. That is the proof.

Devotee (2): Yes, their own law of conservation.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Karandhara: No, I'm talking about the individuality...

Prabhupada: No, no. Individuality... There are so many proofs, there are so many proofs, how you can say it is not?

Devotee (2): By their own laws.

Prabhupada: No, no, not that. It is different subject. That something is missing within the body, therefore it is dead. So what is your answer? We say something is missing. We shall decide what is that something later on. That something is missing. If you suggest that something is chemical combination, then you do it. Therefore do not know. I say something is missing. If you know, then you replace that something, then you'll know.

Karandhara: What do we say that something is?

Prabhupada: No... That everyone, any layman can understand, that this dead body is unconscious because something is missing. Any layman can understand. If you know that, then you replace it. I don't say I know, but I say something is missing.

Hrdayananda: Jaya.

Prabhupada: You have to accept also that. But if you know that something, then you replace it. Otherwise you also do not know. Then why you are talking of big, big word? You do not know.

Devotee: (indistinct)

Prabhupada: But something is missing. That is accepted by everyone.

Bhakta Dasa: (laughs) So we both don't know.

Prabhupada: Ah? No, I know better than you. Because you are a fool, I'm a fool, but you are a fool and still you are posing you know. That is the difference.

Karandhara: They may say, "We don't know, but we're trying to find out."

Prabhupada: That also... Then why I shall give you better position?

Karandhara: We are also trying to find out.

Prabhupada: Then why should I give you better position? You're on the same level with me. Why you are posing as "I am scientist"? You are a fool, you admit I am fool, you admit you are a fool. But why you are posing as scientist?

Svarupa Damodara: Because they will say that they have a..., they are trying to find out experimental things.

Prabhupada: You have not found out, that's a fact. As I have not found, therefore you are equally fool like me. Don't pose yourself better than me.

Karandhara: If we're both fools...

Yasomatinandana: But at least we are accepting some authority which is supposedly very authorized by great saints, sages...

Prabhupada: Yes.

Karandhara: They have also great authorities.

Prabhupada: And all the authorities... No, therefore these persons who do not accept authority, they're rascal.

Karandhara: They are accepting authorities.

Prabhupada: But they're accepting authority who is not authority.

Devotee: They're fools.

Devotee (4): Darwin, they're accepting Darwin as authority.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Karandhara: They say, "But why should we accept any one of your authorities?"

Prabhupada: No, then you come to argument, reason, then whether Darwin is authority or Krsna is authority, we have to decide.

Devotee: Jaya!

Prabhupada: Yes.

Yasomatinandana: They accept like, "I have not seen President Nixon, but I accept because I read in the newspaper." So somebody says that, well, by following this bhakti you can see Krsna, but they will not accept that.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Devotee (2): Why should they accept Krsna as authority over Darwin authority?

Prabhupada: Ah? Because He's accepted by...

Yasomatinandana: Great sages.

Prabhupada: ...great sages, saintly persons, scholars...

Devotee (2): By many scientists.

Prabhupada: Then fool's paradise it is called... It is folly to be wise where ignorance is bliss. That is the only conclusion.

Karandhara: That's what they say about us.

Prabhupada: Because this world is all full of fools, so it is very difficult to push on. That we know. Therefore we should not go to the mudhas.

Svarupa Damodara: Birds of a feather flock together.

Prabhupada: (laughs) Yes.

Hrdayananda: So they can go to Darwin's planet, we'll go to Krsna's planet.

Prabhupada: Yes. (laughs)

Devotee: But how will we defeat them?

Prabhupada: Yanti bhutejya bhutani.

Yasomatinandana: By giving them prasadam.

Prabhupada: Ah?

Yasomatinandana: We'll defeat them by giving them prasadam, right, Prabhupada?

Prabhupada: To cure their disease, you have to give them prasadam, and give them chance to hear Hare Krsna. This is valuable. Just like a man suffering from jaundice, he sees everything yellow, and if you say, "No, it is not yellow. White" "No, I see yellow." What can be done, then the medicine has to be given. He'll never say it is white. He'll say it is yellow, because he is suffering. You have to cure. The Krsna consciousness method is curing the disease of jaundice.

Hrdayananda: In other words, Prabhupada, unless there are enough gentlemen to accept saintly persons, we cannot talk to them. [break]

Devotee (2): :...we have to defeat them by prasadam.

Prabhupada: Yes. No, we have to show them mercy. It is not a question of defeat. Just like a diseased person is talking nonsense, so doctors takes care, "All right, go on talking nonsense. Take this medicine." (devotees laugh) That is hospitalization.

Yasomatinandana: They're already defeated.

Prabhupada: Yeah, already defeated by nature. Mayayapahrta-jnana. That is stated, apahrta-jnana. Maya is taking their all knowledge, and because maya is taking their all knowledge, the preaching is required. [break]

Yasomatinandana: So why wouldn't, why couldn't they accept that such simple thing?

Prabhupada: They're not wise. Mudha. Na mam prapadyante mudhah [Bg. 7.15]. Because they always engage in sinful activities. These are the sym..., cause of their disease. They're sinful, they're rascal, lowest of the mankind, and whatever knowledge they are proud of, that is maya, and the basic principle is they're asuras, atheists.

Yasomatinandana: Just like a prisoner trying to demand explanation from the King...

Prabhupada: Let us go (indistinct).

Karandhara: Prabhupada, we should go straight back; it's getting late.

Prabhupada: Ah? No, no. What is the time now?

Karandhara: :Quarter to seven.

Prabhupada: :Quarter to seven?

Devotee: Yeah.

Prabhupada: All right.

Devotee (2): Srila Prabhupada, when someone is sick, he willingly goes to the doctor.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Devotee (2): So...

Prabhupada: That is the injunction of the Vedas. Tad-vijnanartham sa gurum eva... [MU 1.2.12]. Therefore these rascals should go to a bona fide guru.

Devotee (2): So how we can get them to willingly come...

Prabhupada: Ah?

Devotee (2): ...to the guru?

Prabhupada: Just like if you are diseased, you are suffering the pains, so naturally you shall be inclined how to reduce the pain, how to get out of...

Devotee (2): But the scientists...

Prabhupada: But these rascals, even though are suffering three kinds of pains, tri-tapa-yatna. Just like why you are covered? Because there is pain. Severe cold, similarly severe heat. So we are suffering, either summer season or winter season. We are suffering, tri-tapa-yatna. There is suffering from our mind, from our body -- this is natural suffering. There is bodily suffering, mental suffering, then suffering caused by other living entities. So we are always suffering. But still they're thinking that "We are happy." The disease is already there. Ah? Just like the Arabian do not want to give you petrol. That means there's suffering caused by other nations. So this is going on. They're simply trying to settle up. But the suffering is there. But they're not in their knowledge, that in spite of all their endeavors, the sufferings are there. What is the cause? Then whom shall I go to ask why the suffering is there? Tad-vijnanartham sa gurum [MU 1.2.12]. Therefore you must approach a person who knows how the suffering should be mitigated.

Yasomatinandana: But there's so many so-called gurus, Prabhupada, how...

Prabhupada: Then you cannot go to the so-called.

Yasomatinandana: How can you convince that we are the real genuine people?

Prabhupada: That you will have to learn, just like you have to go to school, there is injunction. But if you do not know what is school, go to a cow farmer(?), then that is your fault. If I say, "You go and purchase this from the market," suppose you have to purchase gold, but you go to a storefront, milk seller, how you will get the gold? That intelligence you must have, that where gold can be had. You must go to the person who is dealing really with gold. But if you do not know, then you will be cheated. That much knowledge you must have.

Hrdayananda: That is book distribution.

Devotee (2): Just like there are some good schools and some bad schools.

Prabhupada: And because now they're so fallen, they do not go, neither they know; therefore we are canvassing, "Here is a school."

Devotee (2): Yes.

Prabhupada: That is our business. "Here is knowledge, come on."

Yasomatinandana: Still they won't go.

Prabhupada: That is their misfortune.

Yasomatinandana: This is the only knowledge. Everybody else is distributing ignorance.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Svarupa Damodara: Prabhupada?

Prabhupada: Yes.

Svarupa Damodara: Sometimes questions are raised saying that how do we know that a bird is more intelligent than a human being.

Prabhupada: :Yes, bird is more intelligent.

Svarupa Damodara: But we are posing that...

Prabhupada: Just like, just like, here is a bird, as soon as he see so many men are coming, he'll jump over you. You are not intelligent to jump over. Suppose someone is coming to stab you; you cannot jump. Therefore bird is more intelligent.

Svarupa Damodara: How do we know that they're not (indistinct)?

Prabhupada: Ah? No, they'll know enemy is coming, even if he says, animals they know. As soon as there is enemy, they take protection.

Devotee (2): :But they take the hook.

Prabhupada: Ah?

Devotee (2): :But the fish take the hook.

Prabhupada: Hook?

Devotee (2): :When the man is fishing with the hook, the fish that takes the hook...?

Prabhupada: :That ignorance is there, but the hook... Not only out of ignorance, out of greediness. That if you become more greedy, he knows that there is sufficient food in the sea, but the rascal is greedy, he's taking another... Due to his rascaldom, he's dying. Greediness. So similarly, all arrangement is there, God-made. Even for human beings. But because they're rascals, they're greedy. They're greedy. Although their greediness cannot satisfy them, everyone is greedy because the law of nature is equal to everyone. If law of nature can supply food to the birds and beast and everyone, why not to the human beings? What human being has done? But they're rascal, greedy, therefore suffering. More, wants more. There is already food grains, milk, flowers, fruits, immense supply, but he'll cut the throat of another animal. Greedy. And they're suffering, committing sinful activities.

Svarupa Damodara: We're getting information that only in the human form...

Prabhupada: Wherefrom information? Another rascal? What is that information? If you get information from another rascal, what you'll get benefit? The source of information must be perfect. Then you get information, it is all right. If you are a rascal and if you get information from another rascal, then what is the benefit?

Karandhara: They'd say there is no perfect source.

Prabhupada: Because you are not... You're cheater, you're cheater, you are cheated, therefore that is your version.

Karandhara: :We are imperfect. How do we know what a perfect source is?

Prabhupada: No, I do not know. Therefore it is said, tad-vijnanartham gurum evabhigacchet. You must know from the person who knows.

Karandhara: He's also imperfect.

Prabhupada: Ah? Well his perfection is proved there is satisfaction. The so-called scientists, philosophers, politicians, they could not bring peace in the world. That is their fools.

Karandhara: We have also not brought peace in the world.

Prabhupada: No, our all followers are peaceful. We... I'm getting thousands of letters, how much you are benefited.

Devotee: United Nations gets thousands of letters.

Hrdayananda: I don't think so.

Prabhupada: They get letters protest, that "You, rascal, United Nations, what you are doing for this?"

Karandhara: No, they're getting millions of dollars in contributions every year from people that think they're doing...

Prabhupada: No, that "in future." No. That is his philosophy. (devotees laugh)

Karandhara: Our philosophy also. We say we can bring peace in the world, but that's in the future.

Devotee (2): No, but they are giving their contributions.

Prabhupada: :(aside:) No.

Devotee: Maybe that will help them bring some peace.

Devotee (2): :But we already have peace.

Hrdayananda: The United Nations cannot bring peace either.

Yasomatinandana: This is a question of the standard of peace.

Devotees: (discuss among themselves)

Prabhupada: Then if you say like that, then United Nations is not better than us, you have to accept. If we cannot give peace, and they are not giving peace, then why they are so big organization?

Karandhara: They will say because it is a better organization.

Prabhupada: :They cannot answer. They simply give, they can give simply words, that's all. "United," they're speaking of unity, only flags are increasing. Daily another flag, another flag, another flag, and the flags will never unite. And still they are advertising "United Nations."

Yasomatinandana: When the war starts, United States...

Prabhupada: Yes, in America, they started, United Nations, but they are going to fight with the Vietnam. United Nations.

Yasomatinandana: Unless one is free from the material concept of life, like "I'm American," "I'm Indian," "I'm Chinese," "I'm Japanese," how can he be peaceful? Because he has got some grudge against somebody else.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Yasomatinandana: Whereas as a devotee, he doesn't have any grudge against anybody. Therefore he's peaceful.

Devotee: He has a grudge against the demons.

Prabhupada: Ah?

Devotee: Demons.

Yasomatinandana: That's due to love for Krsna. That's not a grudge against demons.

Devotee (2): A devotee also is merciful to the demons.

Prabhupada: No, no, we are not envious of the demons. Otherwise there is no need of preaching. We are trying to make the demons perfect. That is our preaching.

Devotee: Compassionate.

Prabhupada: :Ah? Yes. Compassion.

Svarupa Damodara: We are preaching that the human form of life is the most important form of any living entities.

Prabhupada: Ah?

Svarupa Damodara: That human form of life...

Prabhupada: Yes.

Svarupa Damodara: ...is the most important species.

Prabhupada: Developed consciousness, developed consciousness.

Svarupa Damodara: But somebody asks, "How do I know a bird is not more highly advanced than a human being?"

Prabhupada: How you can ask?

Devotee (2): By example.

Prabhupada: That is... Human being has created the city. The bird cannot.

Devotee (2): Birds also create cities.

Prabhupada: No, their cities, their own way, not like this. Human being has constructed the skyscraper building. A bird cannot. In that sense you are advanced. That sense you are advanced.

Svarupa Damodara: So they say this is just our own mental concoction.

Prabhupada: They can repair their nest with some stick, and that's all. That much they can do. But you can big, big beams, you can... That is the difference.

Yasomatinandana: Because even the most powerful birds we can control.

Prabhupada: But, but there is no benefit. You are misusing your intelligence by skyscraper building, and they're using their intelligence to make a nest; but the benefit derived is equal. Therefore, in that sense you are less intelligence.

Svarupa Damodara: In other words, they never violate the laws of nature, but other..., we are backward, because we tried to fight against the laws of nature.

Prabhupada: Yes. That is our disease.

Svarupa Damodara: So they are more advanced.

Devotee (2): Practically you said that.

Prabhupada: Ah?

Devotee (2): That the birds are living naturally.

Prabhupada: Yeah, naturally. No... They have no discrimination. They have to abide by the laws of nature. But you have got discrimination; therefore you are punished.

Devotee (2): So we will attract the scientists by saying that we are both fools?

Prabhupada: Ah?

Devotee (2): Before we were saying that we were both fools. Is that the way to attract the scientists?

Prabhupada: :No, no. That was argument. We are not fools; the scientist is fool. (devotees laugh) We are educated.

Devotee (2): But how we can get them to come, to take prasadam?

Prabhupada: That... Yes, give them nice prasadam, they'll come. If one scientist can be captured, many others can be captured. (laughter)

Yasomatinandana: :By saying that "We have got free food, come and dine with us."

Devotee (2): But first we give them prasadam and then they come, or first they come and then we give them prasadam?

Prabhupada: Yes, just like that Dr. Wolfe came also. So gradually they'll come, because they're...

Svarupa Damodara: :But they're more interested in seeing the molecules than in taking prasadam.

Prabhupada: No...

Svarupa Damodara: :That is their (indistinct).

Devotee (2): So we have to trick them to take prasadam.

Prabhupada: They will (indistinct) as students not to see molecules, but to see how palatable dishes are there. (laughter)

Devotee: Yeah, they will forget it.

Prabhupada: At that time they forget their laboratory.

Yasomatinandana: You forgot your laboratory.

Svarupa Damodara: Just like Govinda Khorana, he got Nobel Prize about two years ago.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Svarupa Damodara: So whenever he works, he never cares about anything, but he carries his only piece of paper and pen so that he can write molecules. So his consciousness is only on molecules, and he is very happy.

Prabhupada: That is nice. That is maya. That is maya. Even the pig is happy eating stool. That is maya. Avaranatmika-sakti (?). Covering energy of maya. Unless he's covered, he cannot eat and enjoy.

Svarupa Damodara: So these are all guided by maya.

Prabhupada: Yes. Prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah [Bg. 3.27]. Prakrti is conducting everything, as you are associating with qualities of prakrti. That I have already explained.

Devotees: Jaya! All glories to... (end)

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