Svarūpa Dāmodara: We want to discuss about the journal that we are proposing to have from the Institute.
Rūpānuga: So Ravīndra-svarūpa Prabhu is going to be the editor, you approved in Māyāpura. We were thinking if you could give us some idea for a title. Because we were thinking so far is that we would have a subtitle, like we have "Back to Godhead" then we have "the Magazine of the Hare Kṛṣṇa Movement." So we would have the subtitle, "Bhaktivedanta Institute" or "Journal of the Bhaktivedanta Institute," but maybe you would like to have a title of the journal. So we wanted to know if you had some hint.
Prabhupāda: Yes, you can title, entitle, Sa-vijñāna.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Sa-vijñāna?
Devotees: Oh.
Prabhupāda: Jñānaṁ me paramaṁ guhyaṁ yad vijñāna-samanvitam. What is that Bhagavad-gītā verse? Jñānaṁ te 'haṁ pravakṣyāmi tad vijñānam...
Pradyumna:
- jñānaṁ te 'haṁ sa-vijñānam
- idaṁ vakṣyāmy aśeṣataḥ
- yaj jñātvā neha bhūyo 'nyaj
- jñātavyam avaśiṣyate
- [Bg. 7.2]
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Pradyumna: Seventh Chapter.
Rūpānuga: That is good, Śrīla Prabhupāda. That is a very nice title.
Pradyumna: "I shall now declare unto you in full this knowledge, both phenomenal and noumenal, by knowing which there shall remain nothing further to be known."
Prabhupāda: Yes, nothing further to be known.
Pradyumna: Sa-vijñānam
Rūpānuga: Sa-vijñānam. So we can say "Sa-vijñānam, Journal of the Bhaktivedanta Institute." Is that all right?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Sa-vijñānam.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Do we need some sort of translation?
Devotee: On the inside cover we can have this verse...
Prabhupāda: You can give this verse.
Devotee: Give the verse on the inside. That can be the motto.
Prabhupāda: Is that nice title?
Pradyumna: Scientific.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes, sound very...
Rūpānuga: It's a very good title.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: So in this journal we can publish from different disciplines of knowledge from any branch of knowledge and principle.
Devotee: Science, philosophy, economics, sociology. For the scholarly, academic community.
Prabhupāda: Yes, socially you can teach how this cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ [Bg. 4.13], how it is scientific. In the society, if there is... Actually we have. Just like why these, maybe so-called scientists, but why the scientists are given so much importance? Because there is a brain. So if you make everyone equal, all śūdras, then who will be the brain? The brain is required. That is brāhmaṇa. So this, not this brain, this brain is śūdra brain for everyone. But when the... But just like here is Dr. Svarūpa Dāmodara, or you are here. So you are not scientists from the very birth. You have been trained up how to become a scientist. Similarly, the birth is there. Whatever you may be, it doesn't matter. But you have to be trained up how to become first-class brain. That is brāhmaṇa. You have to become truthful, you have to become controller of the senses, you have to become fully aware of things, of God, everything, full knowledge, then you become brain. These people give scientists so much importance because there is brain. Brain, in the society, there must be brain. So without brain how the society can go on? If you simply produce motor mechanics, then? Brain must be there. Just like this is brain, Sanātana Gosvāmī is asking, ke āmi, kene āmāya jāre tāpa-traya. This is brain. "I don't want some uncomfortable situation, but why it is enforced?" So when you make research into that, that is brain. And if we remain like animal, "All right, they are dragging me to the slaughterhouse, that's all right, let me go," that is not brain. Brain means that I am seeking after perfect happiness, why I am not allowed to have this perfect happiness? That is brain. The question, if there is any remedy. They are doing this. Scientific brain means there are so many problems, they are trying to solve it. That requires brain. But because they are poor scientists, they do not know how to make a solution of the ultimate problem. They are making tiny problems, that's all. There is power shortage, all right, let us invent some substitute of petroleum. Brain is being taxed. Again it is finished, again another. Punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām [SB 7.5.30]. But they are so dull brain, they do not raise the question that we are making solution of one problem, another problem is ready. That brain they have not. So how long we shall go on solving the problems, another problem, another problem? Daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī mama māyā duratyayā [Bg. 7.14]. He does not know that nature will not allow me to live peacefully. So we bring problems after problems. That is material life. Duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam [Bg. 8.15]. Daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī. Everything is there. You discuss only Bhagavad-gītā, you'll get so many subject matter to think and write. This is brain. We are solving one problem, another problem is there. Why this is happening? If there is any situation without any problem? That is brain.
Rūpānuga: We had another practical consideration. We were thinking, could BBT publish the journal? BBT would publish the journal?
Prabhupāda: But whether you'll be able to publish regularly.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Quarterly, at the beginning.
Rūpānuga: Four times a year. Every three months.
Prabhupāda: Because it must be very sa-vijñānam, it must be very scientific.
Rūpānuga: Oh, yes. I'll see to it.
Prabhupāda: That's all right, BBT publish. Why not?
Rūpānuga: We can provide the copy work and all the graphs and things, and then they would lay it out and do everything, like with your books.
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Just like other things. And it will be BBT property. That's all.
Rūpānuga: Your property.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: We can also do it for the books also, Śrīla Prabhupāda, isn't it? It will be published by BBT, but coming out from Bhaktivedanta Institute.
Devotee: That will be good for the Institute if the name is on that book.
Prabhupāda: That's all right. From Bhaktivedanta publisher. Yes, that's all right. Can do something like that, there is no harm. But this world is a problem, but we want solution of the problem but we do not know how to solve it. Is it not? Do the scientists know?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: They are trying. (laughter)
Prabhupāda: Not a single problem they have solved. Can you cite that this big problem they have solved?