Jai "any civilization which is out of touch of God consciousness, that will dry up in due course of time.

[Kiran Kumar]

Prabhupāda: Just see, why this wood is dried up? Why?

Hari-śauri: There is no spirit soul in it.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It has been severed from the tree.

Hari-śauri: Cut off.

Prabhupāda: Yes, from the..., it is out of touch from the original bark. Similarly, any civilization which is out of touch of God consciousness, that will dry up in due course of time.

Type: Walk
Date: July 12, 1976
Location: New York

[Tamohara dasa ADMIN.]

Niraj Bidawatka

4 hrs  · 

DO YOU THINK THAT IT IS ADVANCEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE BY SIMPLY THINKING THAT "There is no God. We are God. Science is everything?"

Now, seven hundred years before, people were dying. Death was there. So has the advancement of material science during the seven hundred years, has stopped death? No. That is not possible. People were suffering from diseases seven hundred years before. Then has the material science so much advanced, stopped diseases? No. People were embarrassed with increase of population. Has that been stopped? No. People were embarrassed with so many death rate. Has that been stopped? No. That is now... Now, seven hundred years before, the sun was rising on the eastern side. Has the material science stopped the sun rising on the eastern side? Has it gone to the western side? No. Then what is this advancement?

Simply defying the existence of God, is that the advancement of knowledge? If we materially calculate that... Practically the major questions which are embarrassing us... Janma-måtyu-jarä-vyädhi [Bg. 13.9]. We are embarrassed with the material miseries of life. That has not been solved. The major questions have been set aside. Simply by thinking that "There is no God. We are God. Science is everything," oh, do you think that is advancement of knowledge? No.

- Srila Prabhupada

Lecture, Bg. 5.14-22, New York, Aug 28, 1966