Svarūpa Dāmodara: Actually, everything is working under the laws of nature. Nothing remains stopped. Everything works.
Prabhupāda: Nimitta-mātraṁ bhava savya-sācin (BG 11.33), that is the instruction in the Bhagavad-gītā. When Arjuna was declining to fight, Kṛṣṇa ultimately says that "Don't think that all these men who have gathered here, they'll go home. It is already planned they have to die. You fight or not fight, they'll die. That plan is already made." . . . (indistinct) . . . we have to endeavor for Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and nothing else. Everything is there.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Hmm.
Prabhupāda: That is required. Because we are living entity, we have got a little independence. By misuse of independence we have become out of Kṛṣṇa's appreciation. So we have to try for that, to again go back to the association. Nothing else. Other things will go on. We don't require to become a scientist or physist or this or . . . we don't require.
We simply require to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. That's all. That is your only business. (break) . . . scientists. (laughing) Scientists, they are trying to create this . . . (indistinct) . . . I think . . . (indistinct) . . . going on. Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja (BG 18.66). You simply surrender—that is your business. No other business.
- vyavasāyātmikā buddhir
- ekeha kuru-nandana
- bahu-śākhā hy anantāś ca
- buddhayo 'vyavasāyinām
- (BG 2.41)