Prabhupāda: A foolish rascal will accept. (laughter) You are rascal number one. You can accept that check; we are not going to. He's proved that you are rascal number one. It is better to have a check. It is better to have a post-check. Just see, these rascals are there. They prefer to be cheated. This is the . . . going on. Therefore these rascals get drunk. Because there are so many poor drunkards there, they will accept this check and they go on cheating, postdated check.
Jñānagamya: The scientists are saying: "We are going to find out."
Prabhupāda: That's all right. That is postdated check, that I am explaining. Why don't you understand it?
Jñānagamya: But the religionists, they say: "We don't know."
Prabhupāda: No, we do not say about religion. We are talking of science. It will take three millions of years to understand religion for these rascals. They are now animals. Religion is not so easy thing to be understood by cats and dogs. Religion is meant for the human being. In the human society there is religion, not in the dog society or the cats and dogs. They do not understand religion means they are cats and dogs, they are not human beings. Human being is that: athāto brahma jijñāsā, to inquire about the nature of God. That is human being. Otherwise cats and dogs.
Shahrezad: So why we are so involved in the material world that most of the human being don't have . . .
Prabhupāda: They are being misled by misleaders, that is the difficulty.
Shahrezad: Yes, but why, God . . . I don't know, but why they don't see, we don't see?
Prabhupāda: They see they are suffering, but they have no eyes to see. They are being slapped both ways and kicked with shoes, but they have no eyes to see. Going on. So much trouble, so many problems that you cannot drive even on the street. We wanted to see some house. Because the street is so congested, we had to wait three days. And still I am thinking that I am making progress. This is rascal.
Shahrezad: Yes, that's right, but . . .
Prabhupāda: Not "yes." First of all understand your rascaldom. You have created such a situation that to go to a place two miles away from my place, I have to wait for three days. And we are taking it as progress. This is rascaldom. But what is inconvenient, we are taking it as progress. To go to a place two miles away, it takes ten minutes or, say, twenty minutes. Now we have to wait two days. And we are taking it as progress. This is called māyā. Māyā means what is not. It is not progress, but we are taking as progress . . . (indistinct) . . . we are taking as progress. This is called māyā. Hmm? What do you say, Nandarāṇī?
Nandarāṇī: I think her question is, is this God's plan or our plan?
Prabhupāda: It is not God's plan, it is your plan. Whatever you make, it will cause inconvenience. And if you follow God's plan, you'll make progress. (devotees in background explaining point) Where is in the Bhagavad-gītā it is said by Kṛṣṇa that you make motorcars like this? He has never said.