Karāndhara: I think most of the anthropologist they say the Vedas were produced within the last four thousand years.
Prabhupāda: So that was only in India why not in Europe? Where is such literature in Europe? Such intelligent literature, philosophies, mathematics, calculations, information of the planets, everything is there.
Karāndhara: Well their theory is that civilisation began around India and Iran, Tigris and Euphrates and Egypt, Babylonia.
Prabhupāda: How many years ago?
Karāndhara: Say between three and five thousand years.
Prabhupāda: Vedic civilisation is by record, history literatures, so why is such literatures is lacking in these countries? There is no such literature in the world.
Karāndhara: They don't even appreciate the quality of the Vedas.
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Karāndhara: They don't appreciate the quality of the Vedas. The take it mostly as folklore, primitive.
Prabhupāda: We do not take, the philosophical side is not primitive then why they are reading Bhagavad-gītā and Vedas there are many scholars they appreciate. German people appreciate. Hitler was too much fond of Vedic civilisation he therefore marked his flag swastika. Why mark is there? That is appreciation. And still by comparison the idea of modern civilisation and the ideal presented there, one must have appreciation.
The social structure of Vedic civilisation, brāhmin, kṣatriya, vaiśya, it is very scientific. If it is not scientific then why modern young men they are accepting it as nice? So by accepting Kṛṣṇa consciousness you're going back to primitive stage? Or making advancement?
Karāndhara: Well so far as. If we consider dismantling the industrial pathological . . . (indistinct) . . . the advancement? They are convinced they must have a newer newer machines, newer newer technology, newer newer medicines, more and more research. They considered this as manifest . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: More and more researching means whatever you are doing that is imperfect. And with their ideas not everyone agrees. And why the section known as hippies they are not taking part in it? They are also born in this country.
The western tendency is always not to accept Vedic authorities. And imitating them Indians are also now declining to accept the Vedas. Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement are based on Vedic authorities. If people do not accept Vedic authorities then our movement has no sound foundation.