No progress if you cannot stop death

Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami: Prabhupada made us admit, looking out at the ocean, that we accept that Japan is there on faith. I asked, "Why do they accept their authorities and not ours?" He said, "Because they are duskrtina, nondevotees, their intelligence is stolen away."

Jayadvaita said that scientists say we invent God. He replied that only the devotee can know Krishna. He reciprocates as they approach Him. When told of the scientists' aim to conquer outer space, he remarked that big, big horses were in a raging river drowning, but a third-class horse thought, let me enter. I said, "Scientists can point to progress." He said, "There is no progress if you cannot stop death. All great sages went to the forest to conquer death."