Scientists are fools and rascals

[Guest guest]

Letter to: Karandhara

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Bhaktivedanta Manor

27 July, 1973

73-07-27

Los Angeles

 

My dear Karandhara,

Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter

dated July 22nd, 1973. You are to be congratulated—you have defeated the

rascal scientist Mr. Roger Reville from the Big University. Actually, it is

not a very difficult task, they have no definite ideas, everything they put

forward is doubtful, even they say—"I think'', "perhaps'', "it may be'',

"theoretically speaking'', and like that.

 

Vedic knowledge is definite. Take for example Padma Pur€Ša, there it is said

there are 8,400,000 species of life: two million trees, one million insects,

four hundred thousand humans. Nowhere do we find about so and so many, but

exactly the number is given. Or we see the description of Kali yuga, and we

are experiencing it. "People of this age will keep big bundles of hair and

thus think themselves very beautiful.'' So this is going on. "For want of

bathing the population of this age will appear like Pisacas''—hippies.

Everything is given in Vedas exactly. Why should we go to such men for

knowledge? They pose themselves as big leaders, philosophers. But we have to

accept our leader according to the standard symptoms—or qualifications. The

standard text book for civilized administration is Bhagavad-gita and

Srimad-Bhagavatam. A leader must be peaceful, self-controlled austere, pure,

tolerant, honest, wise learned and religious.

 

Not like your President Nixon—a rogue and thief—such men cannot do any good

to society, only those who are trained up in the Ultimate Goal of human

life, they can lead—because human life is meant for going back to Godhead.

Therefore our society is serving the whole world by supplying the missing

part for perfect advancement of human civilization, we are supplying the

head. Although all parts, such as legs are necessary, the whole thing is

useful only when there is a head. So, everything is already there but it is

now mixed up, we want to bring the whole world in to order by giving the

right directions to all classes of men. Right direction means, to deliver

the instructions of Krishna, and because Krishna is perfect, if you present

this knowledge anywhere it will automatically defeat all the existing

concocted hodge-podge ideas congesting the feeble brains of so-called

scientist, philosophers or anyone.

 

When my Guru Maharaja was present even big, big scholars were afraid to talk

with His beginning students. My Guru Maharaja was called "Living

Encyclopedia'', he could talk with anyone on any subject. He was so

learned—so we should be like that as far as possible. No

compromise—Ramakrishna, avataras, yogis, everyone was enemy to Guru

Maharaja—he never compromised. Some God-brothers complained that this

preaching was chopping technique and it would not be successful. But we have

seen that those who criticized, they fell down. For my part I have taken up

the policy of my Guru Maharaja—no compromise. All these so called scholars,

scientists, philosophers who do not accept Krsna are nothing more than

rascals, fools lowest of mankind etc..

 

So you go on with your work, it is very encouraging to me. Thank you.

 

Your ever well wisher,

 

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

P.S. This evening I had talk with Sir Alister Hardy M.A. D.Sc. of Oxford. He

is a nice gentleman.

 

ACB;hda.