Svarūpa Dāmodara: Going back yesterday's theory of relativity, so the . . . in the material as well as spiritual platforms, everything's relative. So it doesn't contradict in . . .
Prabhupāda: Spiritual platform there is no relativity. There is only absolute. Material world: one plus one equal to two; one minus one equal to zero. In the spiritual world, one plus one equals one; one minus one equals one. This is spiritual. Pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate (Īśo Invocation). One minus one equals one. That is the description in the Īśopaniṣad.
Śyāmasundara: That's like mathematics of absolute numbers. Do you know that system . . .
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes
Śyāmasundara: . . . where that's true, one minus one equals to one? (break)
Prabhupāda:
- . . . sviṣṭasya sūktasya ca buddhi-dattayoḥ
- avicyuto 'rthaḥ kavibhir nirūpito
- yad-uttamaśloka-guṇānuvarṇanam
- (SB 1.5.22)
Therefore a man's education, culture, his acts of piety, charity—so many good things are there—with all these things one should try to glorify the Lord. That is perfect. If there is a great scientist, great mathematician, he should try to prove the glories of the Lord whenever . . . (indistinct) . . . that is his success. Chemist, he should try to glorify the Supreme by his chemical knowledge. That is perfection.