July 17, 1975
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Yadubara: No, he wasn't teaching
that. He was teaching some physics. He was not a very good teacher. There were
1500 pupils in the class, students, and we would never be able to see the
teacher, so many students.Dharmadhyaksa: He recently retired, and he was
lamenting how young people are shunning science now. Young people are not so
interested in science. He was also very disappointed that the new scientists
were not as well trained as the old scientists and did not have the same desire
to serve science.
Prabhupada: What they will do by serving science? The birth, death is already there. So they are becoming saner, that "What is the use of wasting time in this way? We cannot solve any problem." That is sense. They cannot solve any... He is still alive or died?
Dharmadhyaksa: He's alive.
Prabhupada: So ask him that "Find out some bomb that you will not die. Why don't you do that?" (laughter) Yes. "People are dying, and you have invented something to die very soon. So why don't you invent something that you will never die? Can you do that? Therefore we are no more interested in science. It is a waste of time." Tell him. You go your professor. "You are regretting that young men are no more interested. So this is our reason because, after all, we have to die. Everything will be finished. Then what is the use of studying? You have not improved anything. The animals have also two legs, and two, four legs. We have got also four legs and where is the difference? You say, the Darwin's theory, from monkey, man has come, but you never shown us that a monkey has ever given birth to a man. So all this false propaganda, we are no more interested." [break]
Bahulasva: ...Los Angeles you told Svarupa Damodara that in twenty-five more years science will be finished.
Prabhupada: Yes. Science is already finished. He is regretting that no young man is interested. That means it is finished already. That's a fact. [break] ...is finished, so-called religion is finished, so-called politics is finished -- everything. Harav abhaktasya kuto mahad-guna [SB 5.18.12]. Because they have finished God, everything will be finished. Zero, only zero.
Bahulasva: The whole human civilization.
Prabhupada: Where is civilization? (laughter) The mother is killing child -- is that civilization? Where is civilization? Less than doggish civilization. Dog also do not do that. And they are claiming civilization, nonsense rascals. Mother is killing child, and is that civilization? Less than dogs and cats. The dogs and cats also do not kill their children. They try to protect. You know? The cats, they carry their cubs from one place to another so that the male cat may not kill. The tiger also do that. The tiger, they also give protection to the...
Brahmananda: The rats, they sometimes do that.
Prabhupada: Everyone. Mother's affection is natural. Now the civilized mother is killing child. This is your civilization. This is your religion, this is your science, philosophy -- everything. And for this, you have created so many big, big buildings to create some less than animals. Civilization is finished unless you take to Krsna conscious. Now dictatorship is coming, politics. The dictator can arrest anyone without any trial and stop him. Even their own circle, the Communists... Nobody knows where is Kruschev. Indira Gandhi is doing.
Brahmananda: Even they arrest you for sleeping now.
Prabhupada: Yes. I have got enough place to sleep, and they will come, "You cannot sleep." What is this civilization?
Dharmadhyaksa: Indira Gandhi, she is taking instruction from the Russians. They are encouraging her to do all of this.
Prabhupada: Yes. Everything is finished. [break] ...principle, strisu dustasu varna-sankarah abhibavat.
Bahulasva: You can go around this way, Srila Prabhupada.
Prabhupada: Oh.
Dharmadhyaksa: This inventor of the hydrogen bomb, he said he had no regrets about making the bomb. He had no regrets about his career whatsoever. And he felt that science was still the answer to man's problems. That's why he was lamenting so much that people were not interested anymore.
Prabhupada: So what is the problem? Real problem is birth, death. So have you any proposal?
Dharmadhyaksa: No, he has no proposal for those.
Prabhupada: Then what is this nonsense problem? So far eating, sleeping, even the birds and beasts, they have no problem. They are eating, sleeping. What is this problem in eating, sleeping and mating? There is no problem. Why you are creating problem? You are creating problem, rascal. There is no problem. Where is the... Out of 8,400,000 species, only men are 400,000. Eight million they are all lower animals. Where is their problem? They have no population problem, they have no food problem, no quarter problem. They do not go to office, they do not start factories. So where is their problem? Eight millions, they have no problem. And out of the 400,000, the so-called rascal civilized men, they have problems. Others they have no problem. They don't require a scientist rascal like you. (laughter) This is the... Tell them like this. If you take vox populi, so out of eight million four hundred, eight millions do not require a rascal like you. And out of the so-called civilized men, a few only, they require your service. So what is the value of your service? Others, they have no problem. Do you think they have problem, the birds and beasts? They are very freely walking from one tree to another and eating. Whatever fruits are there, they are eating. And the for mating, the female bird is always with him. Nature has given, when the birth is taken place, one male, one female, cats, dogs and birds. So there is no problem. Is there any problem?
Brahmananda: No.
Prabhupada: Then why these rascals create problem? And become a big scientist and draw a good salary, fatty salary, that's all. [break] He has invented hydrogen bomb, but does it mean the war is taking place every day? Say, after twenty years, fifty years, war will, then his service will be appreciated, by the time he will die.
Brahmananda: They have not used the hydrogen bomb yet.
Prabhupada: Even there is use, so where the use? We require daily things. [break] ...this fruit?
Dharmadhyksa: These are cones. This is a pine tree, and these are cones. What are cones used for?
Jayatirtha: Seeds are in the pinecones. [break] ...cone the trees come.
Prabhupada: Let them produce one seed like that. Sow it and a big tree will come out. Where is that scientist? Millions of living beings are coming out. You are trying to kill them, and they are trying to manufacture living being in the laboratory. And take credit. Where is the credit to you? Already millions and trillions are daily coming. Befooling men. They are fools and befooling men, that's all. This is their business.
Bahulasva: The cheaters and the cheated.
Prabhupada: Cheaters and the cheated. That's all. [break] ...meditating, what is that? Who was saying? Upendra? Where is Upendra?
Jayatirtha: He hasn't come, Srila Prabhupada.
Prabhupada: So meditation means "I am moving the earth, I am moving the sun..."
Jayatirtha: From that Kundalini book.
Brahmananda: Oh, in that prayer he says, "I created God." That Yogi Bhajan. In his book he says that, that that is the meditation.
Prabhupada: "I created God."
Brahmananda: Yes.
Prabhupada: And you were created by dog. (laughter)
Dharmadhyaksa: That is a very big theory of the modern atheists that God is simply the creation of man's imagination in order to fulfill certain psychological needs.
Prabhupada: Then what is the cause of creation?
Dharmadhyaksa: Mother nature.
Prabhupada: So mother nature... Where is the father? (laughter) You rascal, without father, mother can give any birth?
Dharmadhyaksa: Well, it's asexual. There's some animals...
Prabhupada: No, no. So animal is their father? Where is the father? It is all right, "mother nature," but everyone knows without father, mother is useless.
Jayatirtha: It's a fact.
Prabhupada: Is there any mother who can give birth without father? So where is the father, rascal? Ask them.
Bahulasva: This way, Srila Prabhupada.
Jayatirtha: Sometimes they say that he is dead now.
Prabhupada: That's all right. But you must know what is your father. A man's father is dead -- that does not mean he can say that "I have taken my birth without father." That you cannot say. Father may be dead. That is..., we shall discuss later on. First of all you have to accept that mother cannot give birth without father. Who is that father? [break]
Bahulasva: ...nature has generated everything on its own. Just like we say that Krsna...
Prabhupada: Where is that nature, generating everything? Where is that nature? Show me.
Paramahamsa: They give the example of the corn. Corn doesn't have to have a... They say corn produces the seeds as well as the...
Prabhupada: Then wherefrom the corn came?
Paramahamsa: From itself. You see, they theorize that naturally...
Prabhupada: Theorize, theorize. But we say corn is produced... When the seeds are thrown on the ground, then corns are produced. Wherefrom... The corn is not dropping from the sky.
Paramahamsa: Originally, right.
Prabhupada: We have not seen the original.
Dharmadhyaksa: Well, originally, they say, it was just some chance combination of atoms and molecules...
Prabhupada: That is... A chance means you are a rascal. Nothing takes place with chance. That is his rascaldom. Nothing takes place. The answer is in the Bhagavad..., bijo 'ham sarva-bhutanam: [Bg 7.10] "The original seed I am." The answer is there. Bijo 'ham sarva-bhutanam. Challenge these rascals. They are cheating so many people.
Bahulasva: Well, then they want to say that if nature can't be self-existing, how can God?
Prabhupada: All right, nature is existing, but our proposition is that without father, how nature can give birth? If the woman is existing, the man must be existing. Just like in your country it is experienced that a girl has given birth to a child. Nobody knows who is the father. But still, it is accepted that she was pregnanted by a man, that is... You cannot say. It may be missing, but you have to accept, not that this girl is giving birth child without any union with a man. You cannot say that.
Bahulasva: Sometimes they say, Srila Prabhupada, that these examples are only valid because we're people and therefore we're...
Prabhupada: So you are people because you are nonsense. Say that, "Because you are nonsense. Why do you say people? You do not have any common sense even, that a mother gives birth to a child without a father."
Paramahamsa: Actually, Prabhupada, just one month ago I read a book in Swedish, and they actually say there's three cases in Sweden where children were born without a father.
Prabhupada: All right, let him satisfy there. But we have no such experience. We cannot accept his theory. He may be a single man to believe that. But no sane man will believe that. But we have got this answer. Krsna says, mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram [Bg. 9.10]. "Prakrtih, nature, is working under My direction." In the Brahma-samhita: srsti-sthiti-pralaya-sadhana-
Bahulasva: Now the scientists are studying the atom, Srila Prabhupada, and they agree...
Prabhupada: No, first of all let us know what they have done. What science they have done. They are proposing all nonsense theories, that nature is producing. So even if you accept nature as supreme, then you are subordinate. You are not independent. You are under... That also I explained. Prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah, ahankara vimu... [Bg. 3.27]. Why you are thinking independent? You are being carried away by the ear, pulling, "Come here." You are thinking there is no birth, but there is birth. Every moment you are having a new life, new birth by the... You can say, "I will not become old man," but prakrti will not allow you. You must become old man. You can say, "I will not die." You must die. So you are so dependent. Even if you accept only prakrti, no father, you are a fatherless child, that's all right, but even the mother... You have to accept the authority of the mother. Where is your independence? You are thinking foolishly.
Dharmadhyaksa: But that is why they are engaged in science in order to master nature. They realize they are dependent.
Prabhupada: That is another foolishness. That is another foolish-ness, and we fools shall be misled by these rascals. All future. "Yes, in future we shall do this. In future we shall do that." Post-dated check. "I give you millions of dollars by check." It is six months after. "Yes, you take it." So who is the foolish man who will take, accept a post-dated check? A foolish man may be satisfied, "Now I have one million dollars." That is another thing.
Dharmadhyaksa: Check comes back stamped, "Insufficient Funds."
Prabhupada: "No funds." (laughter)
Bahulasva: "Account closed."
Prabhupada: Yes.
Devotee: They're always saying that the devotees are parasites. Everyone is always saying that the sadhus...
Prabhupada: That we have already answered. Just the Rockefeller. He may be also called parasite.
Devotee: He is.
Prabhupada: But he has got enough money to engage you to work for me. "You work; I enjoy." Devotees are so clever that you collect money... Just like our Krsna dasa collected money by doing hard work and gave me a check. Why shall I work? (laughter) I am so intelligent, I have created an organization-check is coming without my work. So who is intelligent? Why shall I work?
Bahulasva: Better to just chant and dance.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Bahulasva: That is why they become mad because they become envious that we are chanting and dancing. They are working very hard.
Paramahamsa: They won't join.
Prabhupada: Yes, they asked in Los Angeles that "How is that? You do not work and you are living so comfortably?" They are envious. And the greatest economist, Professor Marshall, he has said that if man gets money, automatically he will not work. That is the basic prin... Therefore they are creating daily new invention.
Brahmananda: For more working.
Prabhupada: They are creating, yearly, motor car to allure them to work and purchase. That is the economic, whole economic basis.
Dharmadhyaksa: There's a case in Africa when the British took over Africa, Srila Prabhupada, that they had to charge the natives a tax, let's say, fifty dollars a year, and they would work... To make fifty dollars a year they would... [break] ...transcending dualities.
Prabhupada: First-class men. Our definition of God is: na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate. "He has nothing to do." This is God. Na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate: "He has nothing to do." He is simply enjoying, dancing with the gopis, that's all. Why He should go to work? Then what kind of God he is? Na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate.
Devotee: But He also says in Gita that He works too.
Prabhupada: Just to teach these rascals to work. Because here, without working, you cannot get your food. Therefore laziness condemned here in this material world. And in the spiritual world the Supreme Person is the most lazy person. (laughter)
Bahulasva: Just like yesterday you told the reporters. When they asked why such a big cart, so you told them that God should have a big car.
Prabhupada: And where is this car? When God assumes the universal form, where is the car? You have no such car. So this car is the smallest car of all. He has got... When He showed His Visva-rupa to Arjuna, so for that Visva-rupa where is the car? You cannot do.
Devotee: When Krsna is demonstrating work, He demonstrates in the form of Lord Visnu, not in His pastimes in Vrndavana but more in the form of Visnu, or how does He show?
Prabhupada: In Vrndavana there is no work. Outside Vrndavana there is killing of the demons. When He came out of Vrndavana, he began His business by killing His uncle, that Kamsa. Then so many other demons came, one after another. He had to fight. Even He had to marry by fighting.
Bahulasva: Ksatriya marriage?
Prabhupada: Yes.
Devotee: Even raksasa marriage.
Prabhupada: Ksatriya marriage, without fighting, there is no ksatriya marriage. For one prince, there are so many candidates. So they must fight between themselves and decide who is the hero. Then he will be allowed to marry. There was no such freedom: the princess are loitering in the street and you can take as many as you like.
Devotee: The price was blood, huh?
Prabhupada: Yes.
Devotee: Plenty blood.
Prabhupada: That is prince. They are not cheap, loitering street. Every father of the prince made some bet. Just like Arjuna got Draupadi. How difficult it was! There was a fish on the ceiling, and you cannot see in this way. You have to see. There is a water pot, and you have to pierce the eyes of the fish. Then you will get this prince. So many failure. It is not so easy job, see the eyes from the shadow, and in this way you have to pierce. It is not so easy job.
Bahulasva: You can go this way, Srila Prabhupada.
Prabhupada: The Satyabhama's father, he made a bet that "I have got these bulls, one dozen bull, very strong. And the boy who will be able to break the horns of these bulls, I will offer my daughter to him." So whole world will fail. You see, it is not so easy job. But Krsna did it. That is Krsna. Krsna is not that husband, that he would pick out some cheap girl and make her pregnant and go away. (laughter)
Citsukhananda: I think this was the case with the Swedish book.
Prabhupada: Yes. (laughter) Krsna married sixteen thousand wives, and each wife he gave big palaces made of marble, furniture ivory, and silk and gold, and then again He expanded Himself into sixteen thousand forms, not that one wife is crying for sixteen thousand days, no. Ready (indistinct). And that is Krsna. That was also just to give them protection. When they were all kidnapped by Jarasandha... No? Bhaumasura. So when they were released, so asked them, "Go home." So in India, if a girl is kidnapped and she lives outside home for three days, nobody will marry her. That system is still now. So they said that "You are asking to go home but we will not be accepted." "Then what do you want?" "Now You marry us." "All right, come on." (laughter) Wholesale, sixteen thousand wives. This is Krsna. We are not captivated by Krsna, a Guruji Maharaja. We know what is Krsna. Then we accept He is God. He has proved Himself that He is God. Our Krsna is not going to marry a society girl secretary. He is not so cheap.
Devotee: This Guru Maharaji claims to be God, but he had to go to childbirth class to learn how to have one child.
Prabhupada: You should not talk about him, these rascals. Na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate, na tasya samah adhikas ca drsyate. This is the definition of God, that he has nothing to do personally. When Krsna kills the demons outside Vrndavana, He is not original Krsna; He is Vasudeva. Vasudevah sarvam iti [Bg. 7.19]. When Krsna is acting universally, that is Vasudeva. Original Krsna is always in Vrndavana.
Jayatirtha: If the original Krsna is always in Vrndavana, then why do the gopis and Radharani feel separation from Him?
Prabhupada: That is here, in this material world. In the spiritual world Krsna does not leave.
Jayatirtha: Oh.
Prabhupada: And even in the material world, Krsna superficially has gone to Mathura, but He has captured the heart of the gopis. So He is not leaving. Gopis are enjoying Krsna by separation. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's feeling, how He is appreciating Krsna by separation.
Bahulasva: Out here on the campus, Srila Prabhupada, different people come with little carts and they sell food things.
Prabhupada: Food?
Bahulasva: Food. They get a permit. We were thinking to have a little car and sell Bengali sweets.
Prabhupada: Yes. Bengali sweet selling is not our business. We should not waste in that way. Our business is how to make him Krsna conscious. If we find such opportunity by selling Bengali sweets, then we can sell. Otherwise it is useless. You should always remember this. We are not for selling Bengali sweets or any such thing unless it is connected with preaching our Krsna consciousness. You should remember it.
Citsukhananda: Bengali sweets means Caitanya-caritamrta, different books of Caitanya-caritamrta.
Prabhupada: Yes. Yes. Our, what is his name?
Jayatirtha: Citsukhananda.
Prabhupada: No, no. The boy who has taken sannyasa, bookseller?
Devotees: Tripurari Maharaja.
Prabhupada: Tripurari. He does so. (chuckles) He will sell Bengali sweet, and he will say, "You will find the formula here," so that his main business is to sell the Caitanya-caritamrta. Hare Krsna.
Devotees: All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Hari hari bol! Jaya Prabhupada! (end)
Prabhupada: What they will do by serving science? The birth, death is already there. So they are becoming saner, that "What is the use of wasting time in this way? We cannot solve any problem." That is sense. They cannot solve any... He is still alive or died?
Dharmadhyaksa: He's alive.
Prabhupada: So ask him that "Find out some bomb that you will not die. Why don't you do that?" (laughter) Yes. "People are dying, and you have invented something to die very soon. So why don't you invent something that you will never die? Can you do that? Therefore we are no more interested in science. It is a waste of time." Tell him. You go your professor. "You are regretting that young men are no more interested. So this is our reason because, after all, we have to die. Everything will be finished. Then what is the use of studying? You have not improved anything. The animals have also two legs, and two, four legs. We have got also four legs and where is the difference? You say, the Darwin's theory, from monkey, man has come, but you never shown us that a monkey has ever given birth to a man. So all this false propaganda, we are no more interested." [break]
Bahulasva: ...Los Angeles you told Svarupa Damodara that in twenty-five more years science will be finished.
Prabhupada: Yes. Science is already finished. He is regretting that no young man is interested. That means it is finished already. That's a fact. [break] ...is finished, so-called religion is finished, so-called politics is finished -- everything. Harav abhaktasya kuto mahad-guna [SB 5.18.12]. Because they have finished God, everything will be finished. Zero, only zero.
Bahulasva: The whole human civilization.
Prabhupada: Where is civilization? (laughter) The mother is killing child -- is that civilization? Where is civilization? Less than doggish civilization. Dog also do not do that. And they are claiming civilization, nonsense rascals. Mother is killing child, and is that civilization? Less than dogs and cats. The dogs and cats also do not kill their children. They try to protect. You know? The cats, they carry their cubs from one place to another so that the male cat may not kill. The tiger also do that. The tiger, they also give protection to the...
Brahmananda: The rats, they sometimes do that.
Prabhupada: Everyone. Mother's affection is natural. Now the civilized mother is killing child. This is your civilization. This is your religion, this is your science, philosophy -- everything. And for this, you have created so many big, big buildings to create some less than animals. Civilization is finished unless you take to Krsna conscious. Now dictatorship is coming, politics. The dictator can arrest anyone without any trial and stop him. Even their own circle, the Communists... Nobody knows where is Kruschev. Indira Gandhi is doing.
Brahmananda: Even they arrest you for sleeping now.
Prabhupada: Yes. I have got enough place to sleep, and they will come, "You cannot sleep." What is this civilization?
Dharmadhyaksa: Indira Gandhi, she is taking instruction from the Russians. They are encouraging her to do all of this.
Prabhupada: Yes. Everything is finished. [break] ...principle, strisu dustasu varna-sankarah abhibavat.
Bahulasva: You can go around this way, Srila Prabhupada.
Prabhupada: Oh.
Dharmadhyaksa: This inventor of the hydrogen bomb, he said he had no regrets about making the bomb. He had no regrets about his career whatsoever. And he felt that science was still the answer to man's problems. That's why he was lamenting so much that people were not interested anymore.
Prabhupada: So what is the problem? Real problem is birth, death. So have you any proposal?
Dharmadhyaksa: No, he has no proposal for those.
Prabhupada: Then what is this nonsense problem? So far eating, sleeping, even the birds and beasts, they have no problem. They are eating, sleeping. What is this problem in eating, sleeping and mating? There is no problem. Why you are creating problem? You are creating problem, rascal. There is no problem. Where is the... Out of 8,400,000 species, only men are 400,000. Eight million they are all lower animals. Where is their problem? They have no population problem, they have no food problem, no quarter problem. They do not go to office, they do not start factories. So where is their problem? Eight millions, they have no problem. And out of the 400,000, the so-called rascal civilized men, they have problems. Others they have no problem. They don't require a scientist rascal like you. (laughter) This is the... Tell them like this. If you take vox populi, so out of eight million four hundred, eight millions do not require a rascal like you. And out of the so-called civilized men, a few only, they require your service. So what is the value of your service? Others, they have no problem. Do you think they have problem, the birds and beasts? They are very freely walking from one tree to another and eating. Whatever fruits are there, they are eating. And the for mating, the female bird is always with him. Nature has given, when the birth is taken place, one male, one female, cats, dogs and birds. So there is no problem. Is there any problem?
Brahmananda: No.
Prabhupada: Then why these rascals create problem? And become a big scientist and draw a good salary, fatty salary, that's all. [break] He has invented hydrogen bomb, but does it mean the war is taking place every day? Say, after twenty years, fifty years, war will, then his service will be appreciated, by the time he will die.
Brahmananda: They have not used the hydrogen bomb yet.
Prabhupada: Even there is use, so where the use? We require daily things. [break] ...this fruit?
Dharmadhyksa: These are cones. This is a pine tree, and these are cones. What are cones used for?
Jayatirtha: Seeds are in the pinecones. [break] ...cone the trees come.
Prabhupada: Let them produce one seed like that. Sow it and a big tree will come out. Where is that scientist? Millions of living beings are coming out. You are trying to kill them, and they are trying to manufacture living being in the laboratory. And take credit. Where is the credit to you? Already millions and trillions are daily coming. Befooling men. They are fools and befooling men, that's all. This is their business.
Bahulasva: The cheaters and the cheated.
Prabhupada: Cheaters and the cheated. That's all. [break] ...meditating, what is that? Who was saying? Upendra? Where is Upendra?
Jayatirtha: He hasn't come, Srila Prabhupada.
Prabhupada: So meditation means "I am moving the earth, I am moving the sun..."
Jayatirtha: From that Kundalini book.
Brahmananda: Oh, in that prayer he says, "I created God." That Yogi Bhajan. In his book he says that, that that is the meditation.
Prabhupada: "I created God."
Brahmananda: Yes.
Prabhupada: And you were created by dog. (laughter)
Dharmadhyaksa: That is a very big theory of the modern atheists that God is simply the creation of man's imagination in order to fulfill certain psychological needs.
Prabhupada: Then what is the cause of creation?
Dharmadhyaksa: Mother nature.
Prabhupada: So mother nature... Where is the father? (laughter) You rascal, without father, mother can give any birth?
Dharmadhyaksa: Well, it's asexual. There's some animals...
Prabhupada: No, no. So animal is their father? Where is the father? It is all right, "mother nature," but everyone knows without father, mother is useless.
Jayatirtha: It's a fact.
Prabhupada: Is there any mother who can give birth without father? So where is the father, rascal? Ask them.
Bahulasva: This way, Srila Prabhupada.
Jayatirtha: Sometimes they say that he is dead now.
Prabhupada: That's all right. But you must know what is your father. A man's father is dead -- that does not mean he can say that "I have taken my birth without father." That you cannot say. Father may be dead. That is..., we shall discuss later on. First of all you have to accept that mother cannot give birth without father. Who is that father? [break]
Bahulasva: ...nature has generated everything on its own. Just like we say that Krsna...
Prabhupada: Where is that nature, generating everything? Where is that nature? Show me.
Paramahamsa: They give the example of the corn. Corn doesn't have to have a... They say corn produces the seeds as well as the...
Prabhupada: Then wherefrom the corn came?
Paramahamsa: From itself. You see, they theorize that naturally...
Prabhupada: Theorize, theorize. But we say corn is produced... When the seeds are thrown on the ground, then corns are produced. Wherefrom... The corn is not dropping from the sky.
Paramahamsa: Originally, right.
Prabhupada: We have not seen the original.
Dharmadhyaksa: Well, originally, they say, it was just some chance combination of atoms and molecules...
Prabhupada: That is... A chance means you are a rascal. Nothing takes place with chance. That is his rascaldom. Nothing takes place. The answer is in the Bhagavad..., bijo 'ham sarva-bhutanam: [Bg 7.10] "The original seed I am." The answer is there. Bijo 'ham sarva-bhutanam. Challenge these rascals. They are cheating so many people.
Bahulasva: Well, then they want to say that if nature can't be self-existing, how can God?
Prabhupada: All right, nature is existing, but our proposition is that without father, how nature can give birth? If the woman is existing, the man must be existing. Just like in your country it is experienced that a girl has given birth to a child. Nobody knows who is the father. But still, it is accepted that she was pregnanted by a man, that is... You cannot say. It may be missing, but you have to accept, not that this girl is giving birth child without any union with a man. You cannot say that.
Bahulasva: Sometimes they say, Srila Prabhupada, that these examples are only valid because we're people and therefore we're...
Prabhupada: So you are people because you are nonsense. Say that, "Because you are nonsense. Why do you say people? You do not have any common sense even, that a mother gives birth to a child without a father."
Paramahamsa: Actually, Prabhupada, just one month ago I read a book in Swedish, and they actually say there's three cases in Sweden where children were born without a father.
Prabhupada: All right, let him satisfy there. But we have no such experience. We cannot accept his theory. He may be a single man to believe that. But no sane man will believe that. But we have got this answer. Krsna says, mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram [Bg. 9.10]. "Prakrtih, nature, is working under My direction." In the Brahma-samhita: srsti-sthiti-pralaya-sadhana-
Bahulasva: Now the scientists are studying the atom, Srila Prabhupada, and they agree...
Prabhupada: No, first of all let us know what they have done. What science they have done. They are proposing all nonsense theories, that nature is producing. So even if you accept nature as supreme, then you are subordinate. You are not independent. You are under... That also I explained. Prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah, ahankara vimu... [Bg. 3.27]. Why you are thinking independent? You are being carried away by the ear, pulling, "Come here." You are thinking there is no birth, but there is birth. Every moment you are having a new life, new birth by the... You can say, "I will not become old man," but prakrti will not allow you. You must become old man. You can say, "I will not die." You must die. So you are so dependent. Even if you accept only prakrti, no father, you are a fatherless child, that's all right, but even the mother... You have to accept the authority of the mother. Where is your independence? You are thinking foolishly.
Dharmadhyaksa: But that is why they are engaged in science in order to master nature. They realize they are dependent.
Prabhupada: That is another foolishness. That is another foolish-ness, and we fools shall be misled by these rascals. All future. "Yes, in future we shall do this. In future we shall do that." Post-dated check. "I give you millions of dollars by check." It is six months after. "Yes, you take it." So who is the foolish man who will take, accept a post-dated check? A foolish man may be satisfied, "Now I have one million dollars." That is another thing.
Dharmadhyaksa: Check comes back stamped, "Insufficient Funds."
Prabhupada: "No funds." (laughter)
Bahulasva: "Account closed."
Prabhupada: Yes.
Devotee: They're always saying that the devotees are parasites. Everyone is always saying that the sadhus...
Prabhupada: That we have already answered. Just the Rockefeller. He may be also called parasite.
Devotee: He is.
Prabhupada: But he has got enough money to engage you to work for me. "You work; I enjoy." Devotees are so clever that you collect money... Just like our Krsna dasa collected money by doing hard work and gave me a check. Why shall I work? (laughter) I am so intelligent, I have created an organization-check is coming without my work. So who is intelligent? Why shall I work?
Bahulasva: Better to just chant and dance.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Bahulasva: That is why they become mad because they become envious that we are chanting and dancing. They are working very hard.
Paramahamsa: They won't join.
Prabhupada: Yes, they asked in Los Angeles that "How is that? You do not work and you are living so comfortably?" They are envious. And the greatest economist, Professor Marshall, he has said that if man gets money, automatically he will not work. That is the basic prin... Therefore they are creating daily new invention.
Brahmananda: For more working.
Prabhupada: They are creating, yearly, motor car to allure them to work and purchase. That is the economic, whole economic basis.
Dharmadhyaksa: There's a case in Africa when the British took over Africa, Srila Prabhupada, that they had to charge the natives a tax, let's say, fifty dollars a year, and they would work... To make fifty dollars a year they would... [break] ...transcending dualities.
Prabhupada: First-class men. Our definition of God is: na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate. "He has nothing to do." This is God. Na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate: "He has nothing to do." He is simply enjoying, dancing with the gopis, that's all. Why He should go to work? Then what kind of God he is? Na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate.
Devotee: But He also says in Gita that He works too.
Prabhupada: Just to teach these rascals to work. Because here, without working, you cannot get your food. Therefore laziness condemned here in this material world. And in the spiritual world the Supreme Person is the most lazy person. (laughter)
Bahulasva: Just like yesterday you told the reporters. When they asked why such a big cart, so you told them that God should have a big car.
Prabhupada: And where is this car? When God assumes the universal form, where is the car? You have no such car. So this car is the smallest car of all. He has got... When He showed His Visva-rupa to Arjuna, so for that Visva-rupa where is the car? You cannot do.
Devotee: When Krsna is demonstrating work, He demonstrates in the form of Lord Visnu, not in His pastimes in Vrndavana but more in the form of Visnu, or how does He show?
Prabhupada: In Vrndavana there is no work. Outside Vrndavana there is killing of the demons. When He came out of Vrndavana, he began His business by killing His uncle, that Kamsa. Then so many other demons came, one after another. He had to fight. Even He had to marry by fighting.
Bahulasva: Ksatriya marriage?
Prabhupada: Yes.
Devotee: Even raksasa marriage.
Prabhupada: Ksatriya marriage, without fighting, there is no ksatriya marriage. For one prince, there are so many candidates. So they must fight between themselves and decide who is the hero. Then he will be allowed to marry. There was no such freedom: the princess are loitering in the street and you can take as many as you like.
Devotee: The price was blood, huh?
Prabhupada: Yes.
Devotee: Plenty blood.
Prabhupada: That is prince. They are not cheap, loitering street. Every father of the prince made some bet. Just like Arjuna got Draupadi. How difficult it was! There was a fish on the ceiling, and you cannot see in this way. You have to see. There is a water pot, and you have to pierce the eyes of the fish. Then you will get this prince. So many failure. It is not so easy job, see the eyes from the shadow, and in this way you have to pierce. It is not so easy job.
Bahulasva: You can go this way, Srila Prabhupada.
Prabhupada: The Satyabhama's father, he made a bet that "I have got these bulls, one dozen bull, very strong. And the boy who will be able to break the horns of these bulls, I will offer my daughter to him." So whole world will fail. You see, it is not so easy job. But Krsna did it. That is Krsna. Krsna is not that husband, that he would pick out some cheap girl and make her pregnant and go away. (laughter)
Citsukhananda: I think this was the case with the Swedish book.
Prabhupada: Yes. (laughter) Krsna married sixteen thousand wives, and each wife he gave big palaces made of marble, furniture ivory, and silk and gold, and then again He expanded Himself into sixteen thousand forms, not that one wife is crying for sixteen thousand days, no. Ready (indistinct). And that is Krsna. That was also just to give them protection. When they were all kidnapped by Jarasandha... No? Bhaumasura. So when they were released, so asked them, "Go home." So in India, if a girl is kidnapped and she lives outside home for three days, nobody will marry her. That system is still now. So they said that "You are asking to go home but we will not be accepted." "Then what do you want?" "Now You marry us." "All right, come on." (laughter) Wholesale, sixteen thousand wives. This is Krsna. We are not captivated by Krsna, a Guruji Maharaja. We know what is Krsna. Then we accept He is God. He has proved Himself that He is God. Our Krsna is not going to marry a society girl secretary. He is not so cheap.
Devotee: This Guru Maharaji claims to be God, but he had to go to childbirth class to learn how to have one child.
Prabhupada: You should not talk about him, these rascals. Na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate, na tasya samah adhikas ca drsyate. This is the definition of God, that he has nothing to do personally. When Krsna kills the demons outside Vrndavana, He is not original Krsna; He is Vasudeva. Vasudevah sarvam iti [Bg. 7.19]. When Krsna is acting universally, that is Vasudeva. Original Krsna is always in Vrndavana.
Jayatirtha: If the original Krsna is always in Vrndavana, then why do the gopis and Radharani feel separation from Him?
Prabhupada: That is here, in this material world. In the spiritual world Krsna does not leave.
Jayatirtha: Oh.
Prabhupada: And even in the material world, Krsna superficially has gone to Mathura, but He has captured the heart of the gopis. So He is not leaving. Gopis are enjoying Krsna by separation. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's feeling, how He is appreciating Krsna by separation.
Bahulasva: Out here on the campus, Srila Prabhupada, different people come with little carts and they sell food things.
Prabhupada: Food?
Bahulasva: Food. They get a permit. We were thinking to have a little car and sell Bengali sweets.
Prabhupada: Yes. Bengali sweet selling is not our business. We should not waste in that way. Our business is how to make him Krsna conscious. If we find such opportunity by selling Bengali sweets, then we can sell. Otherwise it is useless. You should always remember this. We are not for selling Bengali sweets or any such thing unless it is connected with preaching our Krsna consciousness. You should remember it.
Citsukhananda: Bengali sweets means Caitanya-caritamrta, different books of Caitanya-caritamrta.
Prabhupada: Yes. Yes. Our, what is his name?
Jayatirtha: Citsukhananda.
Prabhupada: No, no. The boy who has taken sannyasa, bookseller?
Devotees: Tripurari Maharaja.
Prabhupada: Tripurari. He does so. (chuckles) He will sell Bengali sweet, and he will say, "You will find the formula here," so that his main business is to sell the Caitanya-caritamrta. Hare Krsna.
Devotees: All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Hari hari bol! Jaya Prabhupada! (end)
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