Reporter: . . . and given the information about the degree. But obviously, they're going ahead with plans to do so, and you have a transition period, for instance, between the part of the moon that is in sunlight and the part that is in darkness.
Prabhupāda: That I've already admitted, that by modern scientific method if you can change the condition of your present body then you can go. It may be possible. But that is very remote.
Reporter: The, er . . . well, do you rule out talking about the beings living on the moon planet? Do you disregard talking about that because you feel it is too remote to chance that anyone would ever land there, or do you have any feelings . . .
Prabhupāda: Remote chance in the present way of going there. But this is not remote. If one wants to go there, there is a particular ritualistic process. If you adopt that, then you can go in your next life. That means after quitting this body you get a different body and you get your birth there. That is Vedic process.
Reporter: Did you say through a particular ritualistic process you can go there in your next life?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Reporter: Okay. Now I still want to find out if you have any feelings about, say, if . . .
Prabhupāda: Going there with this body?
Reporter: Yes.
Prabhupāda: No. I am not very much optimistic. Almost I say it is impossible.
Reporter: But if the impossible happened and they were able to safely land on the moon's surface, do you feel they would have any difficulty or encounter any trouble with the beings that you say live there?
Prabhupāda: The trouble is already there. You are going with great difficulty, and even if you land there you may die immediately; everything is finished. You are already encountering the difficulty. It is not very easy. The Russian scientists, the American scientists, they're trying for the last ten years. Still, they have not approached the moon planet. So difficulty is already there.
Reporter: But . . . yes, there are difficulties, but still people feel . . .
Prabhupāda: Just like the Russians advertised that "We are going there," in 1965. They advertised to sell land. So these are utopian. You see? Somebody wanted to purchase land in the Russia. And they advertised also that they have plucked their flag, Sea of Moscow. What is this?
Reporter: Well, my point is that I was trying to determine if there are any particular religious beliefs . . .
Prabhupāda: It is not religious belief. It is not religious belief. It is fact.
Reporter: Well, I mean not . . .
Prabhupāda: Knowledge received from Vedic sources. Just you are talking on the source of knowledge from the modern scientific books; similarly, we are talking also on the source of knowledge received from Vedas. It is not a religious belief or faith, blind faith. We are not inventing anything. We are talking on the basis of authoritative knowledge contained in the Vedas.
Reporter: Does this basis of knowledge include any information about beings and how they would react to people from another planet? Would there be . . . is there anything containing, you know, how they would react, how the moon people react to the earth people coming there?
Prabhupāda: Of course, such description is not in the Vedas, but in some sources we can understand that one king, he wanted to enter the heavenly kingdom, but he was opposed. He was opposed by the demigods. So much information we have got. So those who are not fit to live there or enter there, maybe they will be opposed by the inhabitants there.
And that is also natural to think. If somebody all of a sudden comes to your country, oh, there is immediately immigration department. They will see the bona fides, how you can enter. So why don't you take that also? If you are . . . if moon planet is inhabited by more intelligent class of living entities, how do we expect that without opposition you will be allowed to enter?
Reporter: So they are said to be a more intelligent entities.
Prabhupāda: Oh yes. Oh yes. Oh yes. They are living ten thousand years. Are they not intelligent? Their standard of living, their mode of civilization, their mode of thinking, everything is higher than this planet.