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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]]
[[Category:Questions On... Modern Science and Scientists]]
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<div id="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">You require so many eggs... No, no, our point is that you want to create life, so first of all begin this. Create chicken, and then we shall think of other important living beings. Point is that in order to produce life you have to take another life, assistance. You cannot… As you say, that life is made of matter, that is not the fact. Life is made of life.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- Durban, October 13, 1975 (New-2003)|Morning Walk -- Durban, October 13, 1975 ]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Everyone is against this movement. So who is coming to save us? Nobody is coming. Kṛṣṇa is saving. Otherwise it would have been stopped long, long ago. I was thinking that “As soon as I shall propose all these things, immediately these American people will ask me to go back home. Instead of go back to Godhead, "You go back to India." (laughter) So it is Kṛṣṇa's kindness that you, a few boys and girls, have accepted this principle. Otherwise who likes this? Nobody likes. Nobody likes. Lord Zetland flatly said, "Oh, it is impossible." This is the life and soul of the modem civilization. just see the advertisement-sex. You see, illicit sex. Who would like our movement? Nobody likes. What is this picture means? Sex, that's all. So many advertise…, wine advertisement, meat-eating, gambling—everything. The modern life is going on the basis of these four principles of sinful life, and we want to stop it. Nobody likes it. Still, we are selling so many books and people are hearing us… (break) (out of car) Why the scientist does not make chemical composition egg?</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh? What is your answer?</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: They say that life is made of organic compounds.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's all right. You combine them.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: We can’t.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then why do you say nonsense? What is the answer?</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Well, if we take these organic compounds and mix them together at the smallest level, then we can build up these compounds and make some kind of life.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, make this chicken. You require so many chicken. Why do you take the eggs from other chicken? You come on, make it.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: I don’t think the scientists have ever been asked to make an egg before.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Simply cheating and taking huge sum of money. All bluff.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Hare Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Harikeśa: They may say "What is the use of creating an egg?"</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm?</p>
<p>Harikeśa: "What is the use of creating an egg?"</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You require so many eggs.</p>
<p>Harikeśa: “Well, the chickens are already doing that. We’re doing things that nature can’t do.”</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no, our point is that you want to create life, so first of all begin this. Create chicken, and then we shall think of other important living beings. Point is that in order to produce life you have to take another life, assistance. You cannot… As you say, that life is made of matter, that is not the fact. Life is made of life. So you are taking the eggs from another life. And in the egg there is life. That you do not know. Sometimes they take it that egg is vegetable. No. What is that?</p>
<p>Harikeśa: Well, the egg is not fertilized, so it's not yet a chicken. It's just an egg.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So that's all right. It is lump of matter. So you take a lump of matter and fertilize a life.</p>
<p>Harikeśa: Well, I’m convinced. There's nothing… (laughing) … nothing left to say.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: The argument is that the scientists are claiming they can do so many big things, but they can’t even manufacture one egg.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's it. And these rascals are talking very big, big words. That has to be stopped, that “Don’t talk nonsense and bluff people and take high salary, simply cheating. Don’t cheat any more. Admit that you cannot do anything. You simply bluff. That's all.” That is to be done.</p>
<p>Harikeśa: “Well, with all our research we’re finding cures to so many diseases. With our research…”</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That, you nonsense, you go on doing, but no disease is stopped. You… Futile attempt.</p>
<p>Harikeśa: "But twenty years ago there was so much smallpox everywhere. But now…"</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is nonsense. You have stopped smallpox, but you have increased cancer. So what is the use?</p>
<p>Harikeśa: "Now we are finding a cure for that also."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's all. Go on working like ass, (laughs) without any… Even if you have some medicine for disease, you cannot stop disease. You cannot stop death.</p>
<p>Harikeśa: "Well, man's duration of life is getting longer."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Rascal. (laughs)</p>
<p>Harikeśa: "Just like in the fourteen or fifteen hundreds people only lived to be about forty or fifty years old, and now they are living so long."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They are living now twenty-five years. In India the average is thirty-five or twenty-five. After all, you are going to die. That you cannot check. (aside:) You have come. Namaskar (Hindi) (break) … very big scientist. They say that life is made out of chemicals. Now you just try to make life by combination of chemicals and fertilize it. Why they cannot do it? So many things. Simply people are being bluffed, and they are kept in ignorance, and they are flourishing at the expense of these rascals.</p>
<p>Indian man (1): That is right.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. There is no real knowledge.</p>
<p>Indian man (1): No. They cash in on the ignorance of the people.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's it. (Hindi—break)</p>
<p>Indian man (1): Cheat everybody, I mean, get all the members and live on that. (break)</p>
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