Darwin nonsense # 1

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Conversation with Srila Prabhupada

 

Prabhupada: There is no history that anyone has produced life from chemicals.

What do your, what do you think, that life is a product of chemicals? Do you

mean to say? Dr. Hauser: That is what I've been taught. Yes. About the evolution

of the earth. And...

Prabhupada: Therefore, if...

Dr. Hauser: ...all the different stages of life.

Prabhupada: Do you think that's a fact...

Dr. Hauser: It's not a fact. I don't know whether it's a fact. I... But

that's...

Prabhupada: Then that means illusioned. You are not confident, but you accept

that theory. This is illusion.

Dr. Hauser: But... Yes. But...

Prabhupada: But you should apply your reason, from practical life, whether life

is produced from matter, or matter is produced from life. Our proposition is:

matter is produced from life, not life is produced from matter. In the

Vedanta-sutra it is said: janmady asya yatah. Absolute Truth is that from whom

or from which everything emanates. Now that Absolute Truth, whether he's life or

dead stone. So that is discussed: janmady asya yato 'nvayad itaratas carthesv

abhijnah. That Absolute Truth must be cognizant. So as soon as you say

cognizant, then He's alive. Abhijnah. That, that means if I say: "I have

produced all these things that is within the room," then means I must have

brain. I must be experienced how to do it. How I can be dead, matter? Has the

matter has got such thing? The origin of creation must be a living being.

Dr. Hauser: But somewhere... If I can... But in this, there is also the

creation of life, when...

Prabhupada: Where is that evidence, creation of life from matter? Is there any

evidence in the history?

Dr. Hauser: No, but as we know, the evolution of life has gone through

different stages of... How do you...?

Prabhupada: Darwin's theory. Do you mean to say, Darwin's theory?

Dr. Hauser: Yes, yes.

Prabhupada: That is nonsense. Darwin was a number-one nonsense. Yes. Rascal. He

has confused the whole world.

Dr. Hauser: Hmm. Why...?

Prabhupada: Evolution of matter. Matter cannot evolve. That is not possible.

Dr. Hauser: But evolution of life...

Prabhupada: What is that life? That is different from matter. That is a

different energy. That I am speaking. Matter is... Life is the origin of matter.

The evolution is not of the matter, but of the life. That Darwin does not know.

Therefore I say nonsense. He does not know that.

Dr. Hauser: Yes. But I feel in the...

Prabhupada: Just like this is an apartment. So from this apartment, you go to

another apartment. So it does not mean that this apartment has evolved to that

apartment. I, the person, I create that apartment, or I prefer that apartment.

Not that this apartment has evolved into that apartment.

Dr. Hauser: Yes, I can see what you mean. Yes.

Prabhupada: Yes. Darwin's nonsense is there. He is changing the apartment.

Apartment is becoming a different apartment. That is not a fact. Just try to

understand. This room cannot develop into another room. But I, the resident of

this room, I can go from this apartment to another apartment. Or I can create

another apartment. This is evolution.

Dr. Hauser: And I can create a bigger apartment.

Prabhupada: Yes, bigger, smaller, as I like. Not necessarily bigger. That is

also another nonsense.

Dr. Hauser: And my intelligence might grow also.

Prabhupada: Intelligence, maybe. But there must be means. You may be very

intelligent, but if you have no means to erect another nice apartment, how it

will?

Dr. Hauser: Trial and error.

Prabhupada: Eh?

Dr. Hauser: Trial and error.

Prabhupada: Just like you have got the desire to purchase another dress,

garment, nicer, but if you have no money, then how you can purchase? You have to

purchase something inferior. So these different species of life is the evolution

of the living soul according to his karma. That is Vedic instruction. Karmana

daiva-netrena. So I am a living entity. If I want to go to better condition of

life, then I'll have to pay for it. Better condition is there already. Not this

inferior condition changes into that better condition. That is another thing.

Just like the condition in moon planet is different from the condition of this

earthly planet. That is already there. You have to transfer yourself from this

planet to that planet. So that point is missing in Darwin's theory. He says that

body is evolving. That is nonsense. The body is evolving, then why the monkey

body is not producing a human body at the present moment? Where is the evidence?

The monkeys are already there. Where is the

evidence in the zoo that a monkey has produced a human being? Do you think it

is all right?

Dr. Hauser: Yes, that, that life might have taken different forms, that I'm

quite sure of. And that the human being might not have existed for about a

hundred thousand years ago.

Prabhupada: No human beings exists eternal. He's existing. But he accepting,

he's accepting different situation.

Paramahamsa: There's proof of this in that recently there was a discovery in

South America. I think it was in Kenya. Where they discovered a skeletal remains

that were over hundreds of thousands of years old that was pre, what is it?

Mag... What is it?

Hamsaduta: Cro-magnon.

Paramahamsa: Cro-magnon, and it was the same human body as now, as we have now.

They have discovered. And with this discovery, they say, completely all of

Darwin's theories have been destroyed. This is a fact. Immediately see. He

overlooked. He says: "I do not see any proof that human beings lived, millions

of years ago. Therefore I think apes were existing." But what proof does he

have? And how they have discovered bones and they have proven by tests that

Cro-magnon era there was the same human body. It's a fact. And completely his,

all his theories have been destroyed. Because he again, he was working with his

illusory senses.

Dr. Hauser: Hmm. But there are the dinosaurs for example. The dinosaurs, yes.

Which died and disappeared from the earth. And that is also a kind of evolution

that has taken place.

Hamsaduta: He says there are these prehistoric animals like dinosaurs, these

big, gigantic animals, they are no longer existing now, but they existed at one

time. So there, there was some evolution there.

Dr. Hauser: Yes.

Hamsaduta: But the point is Vedic, Vedic conclusion is...

Prabhupada: No, but, apart from Vedic conclusion, this example, that

practically, when I go from this apartment to another apartment, so this

apartment does not become another apartment. I go from this apartment to another

apartment. He's missing that "I". Or "you". That is his nonsense.

Dr. Hauser: He's only talking about apartments.

Prabhupada: Yes, that is his rascaldom.

Dr. Hauser: Yes, I can see what you mean.

Prabhupada: ---

Dr. Hauser: But some of this cheating, as you call it, must have, have still

been a great use to mankind because it has not been proven at the time when this

theory has been evoked by some scientist, it has not been proven that he's

right, but he works according to this principle that he has got, and then

later...

Prabhupada: Yes. That, that is explained in Bhagavatam that in the jungle one

big animal is the leader of other animals. That's all. But they're animals. Is

it not?

Dr. Hauser: But I don't really understand.

Prabhupada: In the jungle, in the forest,...

Dr. Hauser: Yes.

Prabhupada: ...the lion is considered to be the king of animals. So lion is

also animal, only big animal. That's all.

Dr. Hauser: So you mean the scientist is a big lion.

Prabhupada: Yes. A big rascal. That's it. A big rascal. A big rascal is

eulogized by small rascals. That's all.

Dr. Hauser: Seducing a small rascal.

Prabhupada: Eh?

Dr. Hauser: Seducing a small rascal.

Prabhupada: Another small rascal. This is the position. Everything is going on

like that. Not only in science, philosophy, religion, sociology, politics. The,

a big rascal and small rascal. That's all.

Dr. Hauser: But you must evoke quite a lot of feelings when you say, for

example, that Einstein was a very big rascal.

Prabhupada: No. He believed in God. Yes. He believed in God. He was not a

rascal. A sane man.

Paramahamsa: Carl Jung also.

Prabhupada: Yes. He believed in God.

Dr. Hauser: Yes.

Prabhupada: He tried to find out the brain of God. So he's not rascal. He's

sane man. Those who are defying God, they're rascal, demons. Einstein believed

in God. Yes. There are many scientists, they believe in God. Harav abhaktasya

kuto... Unless one is God conscious, he's a rascal. Immediately, take it. We

take it like that. As soon as you say godless, atheist, oh, a rascal. That's

all. It may be the understanding of God is not so perfect. But he thinks there

is God. That is intelligence. That is intelligence. And the demons will never

accept God. Just like in Russia. All set of rascals. They do not believe in God.

Dr. Hauser: But the interest... The religious interest in Russia is, is greater

than in any other country in Europe. But not the, the leaders are not...

Prabhupada: I say the leaders. Not only in Russia. Everywhere. The leaders, the

rascal leaders spoiling the whole world situation. In India also. In India, by

nature, they are aloof from these four principles of sinful life. Eighty percent

of the population, by nature. But government, at the present moment, the

leaders, they're inducing them to eat meat, to drink. And gambling also.

Introducing. Gambling. Government is issuing that gambling cards. Because

government means some rascal just like Nixon has gone to the power. Now he's

proved he's a rascal. So everywhere the government leaders means all rascals.

Dr. Hauser: Although Nixon says, in every television speech, that he is a God

believer.

Prabhupada: Eh?

Dr. Hauser: Nixon says, at least, that he is a God believer.

Prabhupada: That is his politics.

Dr. Hauser: Yeah.

Prabhupada: Maybe God believer, but...

Dr. Hauser: Are you leaving for...

Paramahamsa: Six-ten. We leave in ten, fifteen minutes. Would you care to go?

Dr. Hauser: No, I have to go back to my, to this emergency ward. One of my

colleagues was, were ill today, and I had to replace him.

Paramahamsa: As far as Nixon is concerned, we can see from his activities that

he may say that he's a believer in God, but his actions prove contrary. You see,

that's... You see you can judge a person by his activities. With someone like

Srila Prabhupada, you can judge that actually he is the only person I have ever

met within my short span who is actually... (break)

Dr. Hauser: ...I was also thinking that it was a little bit hard for me to get

into the language or the Indian words. And I felt that one has to be rather

intellectually sharp to be able to go into these matters.

Prabhupada: What is that difficult word?

Dr. Hauser: Intellectually...

Prabhupada: What is that difficult word? You are feeling difficult.

Hamsaduta: The Indian words means Sanskrit words.

Dr. Hauser: Yes.

Prabhupada: No, Sanskrit word we have given English equivalents. So what is the

difficulty?

Dr. Hauser: It's not that, it's not that... I can understand them but... and I

can get the translations and... but then...

Prabhupada: We have given the equivalent of each word.

Dr. Hauser: Hm.

Prabhupada: And then translation and then purport.

Dr. Hauser: No, but what I mean to say is that this is knowledge that can be

spread in this way, it must be spread to people who are rather accustomed to

reading, to getting...

Prabhupada: No. If he reads he will be accustomed. Reading will make him

accustomed.

Dr. Hauser: Well the reading customs, for example, in Sweden are very, you

know, very limited to newspapers and television and it will take them...

Prabhupada: That we have explained.

Dr. Hauser: Yeah?

Prabhupada: We have explained. Find out this verse, tad-vag-visargo

janatagha-viplavah. Yes, first of all you see the index?

Srutakirti: What this?

Prabhupada: Yes, yellow book, you know.

Srutakirti: First Canto.

Prabhupada: Yes. Tad-vag-visargo janatagha-viplavah.

Srutakirti: (reads verse and translation, S.B. 1.5.11)

Prabhupada: You follow?

Dr. Hauser: Hm.

Prabhupada: Read it again.

Srutakirti: (reads the translation again)

Dr. Hauser: Yes.

Prabhupada: The newspaper is glorification of this mundane world. You have to

transfer your consciousness to understand the glorification of the Supreme. This

is transcendental literature. So people have got the tendency to read but

they're glorifying this rascal, mundane rascals. So that attitude should be

transferred to understand the glorification of the Supreme Lord. That will be

(indistinct). That we are presenting. We are presenting a literature exactly

like the newspaper. They are glorifying some Nixon and Dixon. We are glorifying

Krsna. That is the difference. That is the difference. If Nixon has

glorification, how much glorification is there in reserve of the Supreme Lord?

Dr. Hauser: But these Nixons and Dixons and Hitlers and... They have a

rather...

Prabhupada: That is illusion. We are attached to them.

Dr. Hauser: Yes, we are attached to them also because they have power over us.

They can persecute us and they can... So it's very...

Prabhupada: No, the greater power is Krsna. If you take shelter of Krsna, they

cannot do anything. Just like Prahlada Maharaja, he was a five years old boy. He

took shelter of Krsna and his father was a great demon, very powerful. He wanted

to chastise his boy. He could not. This is the proof. So you take shelter. Krsna

says, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja, aham tvam sarva-pape...

"I give you protection." So people have no faith although He's God. He thinks

God is less powerful than Hitler. That is his nonsense. If he takes actually

shelter of Krsna, what this rascal, Hitler, can do? But he has no faith in God.

He thinks Prabhu Hitler is greater than Lord. Prabhu Hitler. That is the

difference between the crows and the swans. The crows think that we have got

food in the garbage. And the swans think that we have got food in nice garden,

in the clear water. And that is difference even in the birds kingdom. That is

explained in the previous verse. Na yad vacas

citra-padam harer yaso, jagat-pavitram pragrnita karhicit, tad vayasam tirtham.

Read that, previous to this verse.

Srutakirti: (reads verse, S.B. 1.5.10)

Prabhupada: Translation.

Srutakirti: (reads translation)

Prabhupada: It is a question of taste. Just see birds, two kinds of birds,

crows and the swans, different taste. Therefore we are trying to create taste

for Krsna consciousness. Then these crows' place, newspaper, we'll not... We

don't read newspaper. We don't touch it unless there is some news of ours. We

don't touch it. What is the use of wasting time? They read so big, big bundle of

newspaper. But we don't touch them. Oh, we have got (indistinct) literature

here. Why should we waste our time in the crows' manifestation? The same

politics, same Nixon, same Dixon, same Hitler. It is called punah punas

carvita-carvananam, chewing the chewed. Things which have already been chewed

and thrown away, another person is crying, "Let me see if there's any juice."

But you have already chewed. What juice you find there? Punah punas

carvita-carvananam, again and again, same politics, same new leader, same he's a

rascal. Just like Nixon advertises in news, "America now requires Nixon." So

America accepted him and now America doesn't want him. Again another Nixon will

come. This is going on, punah punah, again and again, chewing the chewed. The

people are not disgusted but we have tasted all these rascals. Why another

Nixon?

Dr. Hauser: There doesn't seem to be any accumulation of knowledge.

Prabhupada: They have no brain. The same thing, the crows. So therefore they

have to be enlightened to Krsna consciousness then they will be able to find out

some big leader, nice leader for them. There are so many things. You are

educated. You should try to understand our philosophy. There are so many things

to be learned from our... They're not sentimentally dancers only. They've got

logic, philosophy, science, everything. Otherwise how we are writing so many

books? Just see, ancient word, how they are nicely, these two verses we have

read. How full of meaning. Na yad vacas citra-padam harer yaso. Harer, pragrnita

karhicit, tad vayasam tirtham, each word has volumes of meanings. There are

18,000 verses in Srimad-Bhagavatam. And each word you'll find enlivening. Each

word. It's such a nice literature. One verse contains actually sixteen words. So

18,000 multiplied by sixteen, how much?

Dr. Hauser: 18,000...

Prabhupada: 18,000 verses multiplied by sixteen. How many words?

Dr. Hauser: 280,000. Yes.

Prabhupada: 280,000 words and each word you'll find a new light. That is

(indistinct). Each word you'll find.

Dr. Hauser: Are these going to be translated into Swedish too?

Prabhupada: Yes, if you do. (laughter) We have got the...

Srutakirti: You can do that.

Prabhupada: Some Sanskrit scholar in Swedish language must come forward. Then

it can be done. But he must be a good scholar because each word is meaningful.

Yes. Just like beginning of the Bhagavata, janmady asya. Janmadi. So this one

word has volumes of meaning. Janmadi means beginning from janma. So beginning

from janma, but, how many things are there? Generally, birth janmastiti lat(?),

birth, then you stay for some time and then you become vanquished. This body.

Janmady asya. Asya of this material world. Janma, creation, then situation, then

annihilation. Now how many volumes of books you can write on these three words?

How this universe was created? How it is being maintained and how it will be

annihilated? These three words. How many books you can write?

Dr. Hauser: Infinity.

Prabhupada: (indistinct) Bhagavata verse, janmady asya, asya janmadi

(indistinct) concise word but volumes of meanings. Volumes. Each word is like

that. Vidya bhagavata-vali(?). Therefore one's learning is complete when he

reads Srimad-Bhagavatam. Otherwise he remains imperfect, in spite of all

learning. Janmady asya yatah, from where? Now the creation of this cosmic world,

from where? But you do not know from where. This is explained in Bhagavatam.

Param satyam dhimahi. That is actually true. In this way simply if you analyze

one verse, you'll find each word is full of volumes of meaning. Janmady asya

yatah, anvayat. Like the creation, anvayat, directly and indirectly, itaratas

carthesu, in the matter of understanding, abhijnah. Abhijnah means completely

cognizant. That is the Absolute Truth. He knows everything--how this universe is

created, how it is maintained, how it annihilated, directly and indirectly. Just

like, I always, regular, everyday thing, when I am massaged by my

student, I see so many veins so I think that I claim, "This is my leg," but I

do not know what are these veins. Directly I know this is my leg, but indirectly

I do not know how this leg is working with these veins and nerves and muscles. I

do not know. But so far God is concerned, He has created. He knows every veins

and everything. That is called abhijnah. In this way you analyze every word,

you'll find volumes of meaning. The next question, "Where you got this

experience?" You say He's abhijnah, He knows everything. To get experience one

must have teacher. But the next word is svarat, He's experienced and

self-sufficiency, svarat, independent. He hasn't got to go anywhere for

experiencing. In this way each word is full of meaning. Janmady asya yatah,

anvayad itaratas carthesv abhijnah svarat, tene brahma hrda ya adi-kavaye

muhyanti yat surayah. We have very shortly described this one verse. I think

five, six pages. You've got that verse?

Srutakirti: Yes. Right here. (showing book to the psychiatrist) Here's the

translation, the verse.

Prabhupada: That is very short description.

Srutakirti: Short. (laughs) ...for the next verse also.

Prabhupada: So it is so meaningful. All learned scholars of the world must read

Srimad-Bhagavatam if they want to actually good for themselves and good for the

world.

Srutakirti: (indistinct) if we can leave at seven o'clock, Srila Prabhupada.

Prabhupada: As soon as you say, I leave.

Syamasundara: It's seven o'clock now.

Dr. Hauser: It's seven now.

Syamasundara: I have five minutes to.

Hamsaduta: Why don't you come with us.

Dr. Hauser: I can't. I'm very sorry but I would have very much liked to.

Hamsaduta: Oh, I see.

Srutakirti: Tomorrow morning Srila Prabhupada's leaving at 8:30, if you'd like

to come. He has a morning walk at six o'clock if you'd like to come for that.

Dr. Hauser: Before I leave.

Prabhupada: That is not so important. Nobody can rise at six o'clock.

Dr. Hauser: Well, I can sometimes. It has been a pleasure meeting you.

Prabhupada: All right, thank you very much for your time also.

Dr. Hauser: Thank you. (end)

730910rc.sto Room Conversation with Dr. Christian Hauser, Psychiatrist

September 10, 1973, Stockholm

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

 

 

 

 

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