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If there is no authority, why do you quote so many rascals? Then come to reason, argument, that's all. If you quote authority, I have got my authority

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"If there is no authority, why do you quote so many rascals? Then come to reason, argument, that's all. If you quote authority, I have got my authority"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

Prabhupāda: If you don't follow authority, then why you quote so many previous scientists? What is the use of quoting if there is no authority? Harikeśa: But the trend is, because Newton speculated the law of gravity. . . Prabhupāda: No, no, first of all you settle up. Don't go away from the point. (laughter) The point is that there is no need of authority. Then why you quote this scientist, that scientist? You stop this nonsense. There is no authority. Hmm? Harikeśa: Yes. Prabhupāda: Haṁsadūta? Haṁsadūta: Hmm. Prabhupāda: If there is no authority, why do you quote so many rascals? Then come to reason, argument, that's all. If you quote authority, I have got my authority. Harikeśa: So this fire. . . That makes sense. Prabhupāda: Eh? Harikeśa: This fire, it makes sense, that there's life in fire.

Prabhupāda: Yes. That is God's creation. Take. . . take out one fish; within five minutes he'll die. And you put yourself in the water; within five minutes you will die. But you are living entity, he is also living entity. His external body is different, your external body is different.

Harikeśa: But my body is ninety percent water.

Prabhupāda: Hmm?

Harikeśa: My body is ninety percent water. The scientists say that this material body is ninety percent water.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Harikeśa: Human body. So I've got a watery body. . .

Prabhupāda: Ninety percent water?

Harikeśa: That's what they say.

Prabhupāda: "They say." They are rascals. (laughter) So much bones and flesh and so many things, others—and ninety percent water.

Harikeśa: Well, they take a cell, and they say in the cell. . .

Prabhupāda: "They take," they. . . Don't quote them; they are all rascals. You come to your own reason. "They say," then you accept them authority. Then why don't you accept authority of Bhagavad-gītā, rascal? You are quoting some rascals and fools, and I am quoting from Bhagavad-gītā. Then whose quotation is favorable? "They say." And when we say "Kṛṣṇa says," that is nothing. Just see how foolish. "They say." These rascals, meat eaters, huh? Bachelor daddies, (laughter) they say something, that is authority. And Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead says, "Oh, that we cannot accept." Just see, nonsense. That I. . . This argument I put forward with Professor Kotovsky, that "After all, we have to follow leader. So your leader is Lenin, and my leader is Kṛṣṇa. So where is the difference between the process? You have to accept some authority. Now it is to be seen whether Lenin is perfect or Kṛṣṇa is perfect. That is another thing, but you have to follow some authority." So you are stopped.

Harikeśa: But in science. . .

Prabhupāda: Again science.

Harikeśa: No, as far as the process goes, they are very proud of the fact that there's no authority.

Prabhupāda: But why you are following? Why you are quoting Newton? You are quoting this scientist, that scientist. Why you are quoting?

Harikeśa: Well, Newton sat there and saw the apple falling. . .

Prabhupāda: If you don't follow authority, then why you quote so many previous scientists? What is the use of quoting if there is no authority?

Harikeśa: But the trend is, because Newton speculated the law of gravity. . .

Prabhupāda: No, no, first of all you settle up. Don't go away from the point. (laughter) The point is that there is no need of authority. Then why you quote this scientist, that scientist? You stop this nonsense. There is no authority. Hmm?

Harikeśa: Yes.

Prabhupāda: Haṁsadūta?

Haṁsadūta: Hmm.

Prabhupāda: If there is no authority, why do you quote so many rascals? Then come to reason, argument, that's all. If you quote authority, I have got my authority.

Harikeśa: So this fire. . . That makes sense.

Prabhupāda: Eh?

Harikeśa: This fire, it makes sense, that there's life in fire.

Prabhupāda: Yes. This is argument. When you do not accept authority, there must be reason and argument.

Harikeśa: But this ether thing is very troublesome.

Prabhupāda: Troublesome for you. (laughter)

Harikeśa: Yes. You said sound is in the ether.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Harikeśa: But I couldn't understand how air. . .

Prabhupāda: You have to gain that intelligence.

Harikeśa: Yes.

Prabhupāda: Sound is the proof that there is ether. Śabda. Now I am talking, you are hearing. How you are hearing? Ethereal transportation. Otherwise how you can hear? I am talking here, and why you are hearing? This is ethereal. The sound is being produced, somehow or other the ether is passing, just televi. . . What is called? Radio.

Harikeśa: They heard, people on the earth, talking on the moon.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Harikeśa: So it went through the air, it went through the space, sounds.

Prabhupāda: And the moon says that "There is no life." Then who is speaking? Nonsense. (laughter) They talk in the moon, and they hear from here, and "There is no life." And we have to take these authorities. (laughter)

Page Title:If there is no authority, why do you quote so many rascals? Then come to reason, argument, that's all. If you quote authority, I have got my authority
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-01-31, 13:37:42
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
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