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I'm giving you an idea, now you elaborate.

Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami: I recently took the antagonist's role of one who doesn't believe what he hasn't seen against Srila Prabhupada. Since then, on a number of occasions he has turned to me to add arguments to those he gave the first time. I am cast in the role of a man who doesn't believe what he doesn't see. What a foolish position it is. You don't see the thought in the mind of the man who is plotting to murder you, Srila Prabhupada said  "It would be to your great advantage to know that this man about whom I am talking is actually planning all the details of my murder tonight."

It is important information for me and it is going on, but I have no access to it because I cannot see it. You don't see the aroma carried by the flower. The best argument is that one cannot know who his father is except by the authority of his mother. We insist on this method of knowing; it is our science and logic . It must be accepted that the method of sensual perception is imperfect. Hearing from the authority is perfect. God is speaking and we are hearing from Him. You may argue with us, but at least we have all information; you are in darkness.

Prabhupada took his bath in a little shack by pouring water from a bucket. Afterwards, the water was thrown on a certain plot of bare ground. After about a week of throwing the refuse water there, a little green plant came up. Prabhupada called for me one time just to point this out. He called me and noted that on the bare ground, some green had started growing. He said it was because for only a few days, someone had thrown water there. Parjanyad anna-sambhavah: grains are coming from the water. Why doesn't the scientist produce grains? This is important water. Everywhere there could be green-producing land and everyone could have enough to eat. This is especially relevant in this barren, impoverished Bhubaneshwar where so much land is bare because there is no water. All we need is water. Why can't man do it? I said it is too big a job for the scientist.

He said he is not against the scientists' achievements, but that they say there is no God. They claim to know everything. Their actual achievements are only childish play airplanes and cars. These are childish achievements because the real problems of life have been put aside by them, although they are making all claims to have solved them. Their achievements do not even raise them to the level of human beings. A car with four wheels is no better than a dog running on four legs. One has to know God and his self in relation to God. They do not take God's authority but imagine in their own way. We have to accept it? Expose them. They cannot actually know. For example, all the phenomena of the sky, the sky is so vast so many stars and planets are there; they cannot know what it is. What do they do? They imagine what it is. This we have to accept their imagination of something that is too much for them? Srila Prabhupada said, " I'm giving you an idea, now you elaborate."  He means we should try writing and realizing these examples in the direction he has indicated.



Reference: ISKCON in the 1970s by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami