So why do you scientists of the western country do not take this matter seriously. I was invited, to speak in Boston, the Massachusetts technical institute. So I first inquired, all the students, where is your technological department? When the body stops, you can again give vitality and it may work, where is that technology? So the student liked it and we had very nice discussion. So we are very much advanced in technology but we do not know, what is the technology of the soul transmigrating from one body to another, that is ignorance. That is ignorance. And this ignorance prevails in animals also. The animals do not know because they are not advanced in knowledge. But they have got also soul. Their soul is evolving or transmigrating from one body to another. There is a system jalajā nava-lakṣāṇi sthāvarā lakṣa-viṁśati. From the aquatics because the whole world was merged into water, devastation. Therefore the beginning of living entities, the aquatics . . . from the aquatics, they come to the plants, trees. Then from plants,trees to insect, from insect to birds, then birds to beasts, from beasts to human being . . . (sanskrit) . . . they are all mentioned.
The evolutionary theory is not new thing as it is stated by darwin. It is there in the padma purana but it is very perfectly explained there. Darwin has not very perfectly explained. There are so many defects but the real thing is that the living entity soul is transmigrated from one body to another. And the chance of developed consciousness is human form of life. In this human form of life, if we do not understand, what I am, where from I have come, where I am going next, why I have taken this body subjected to so many miserable tribulations of life which I do not want. Ultimately all our miserable conditions have been summarized into four, birth, death, old age and disease. janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam (BG 13.9).
We are trying to have . . . become happy by our scientific knowledge. By advancement of knowledge but Kṛṣṇa says that, "You cannot make any solution of these problems." What is that? Birth, death, old age and disease, that is not possible. So we are happy by false happiness, this is called Maya. This is culture, this is Indian culture. They agree, there is a Maya. This is eastern culture, Maya. Maya means we are falsely happy, we are thinking that now I am well situated but I am not thinking any moment. Next moment I maybe kicked out of situation and everything finished. Why I am being kicked out? I want to stay here permanently, nobody wants to die. Why you die? You see. Where is the solution? This is lack of knowledge but there is solution. There is solution that is eastern culture. Eastern culture knows how to make this solution. Therefore you will find so many parties. The karmis, the jnanis, the yogis, the bhaktas, they are all trying to make solution of this four problems. Birth, death, old age and disease. That is eastern duty. So now it is very . . . happy moment that Indo-American Society. I wish that the Indo-American Society should give a special stress to know why these four miserable conditions of life cannot be solved. And there is a solution. We can give you the solution.