Proof of Existence of GOD spiritual effulgence, is a reflection of the body Way to know GOD

of the Supreme Lord. This is confirmed in the How we can recognize God? Some
By observing energies Brahma-saàhitä: yasya prabhä prabhavataù supernatural power, evidence of authorities,
The Lord is described as the soul, or spirit. [Bs. 5.40]. The brahmajyoti, or Brahman scriptural evidence. These things are required.
What is the definition of spirit? Spirit is effulgence, is due to His bodily luster. So so far Kåñëa is concerned, every authority
perceivable everywhere. Brahman means Therefore it is said here, svayaà-jyotiù: He has accepted Him as God. And when He was
“great.” His greatness is perceived Himself is light. His light is distributed in present, His activities were superhuman. And
everywhere. And what is that greatness? different ways, as the brahmajyoti, as sunlight from the evidence of Vedic literature, He is
Consciousness. We have personal experience and as moonlight. Bhagavad-gétä confirms God. Then, in spite of all these evidences, if
of consciousness, for it is spread all over the that in the spiritual world there is no need of you don’t believe Him, then it must be
body; in every hair follicle of our body we sunlight, moonlight or electricity. The considered that äsuraà bhävam, that “I shall
can feel consciousness. This is individual Upaniñads also confirm this; because the not believe. Whatever evidence you give, and
consciousness. Similarly, there is bodily luster of the Supreme Personality of whatever, I mean to say, activities you may
superconsciousness. The example can be Godhead is sufficient to illuminate the show, I’ll never believe You God. Finished.”
given of a small light and the sunlight. The spiritual world, there is no need of sunlight, Then that is helpless. So avajänanti mäà
sunlight is perceived everywhere, even within moonlight or any other light or electricity. müòhä mänuñéà tanum äçritam [Bg. 9.11].
the room or in the sky, but the small light is This self-illumination also contradicts the Besides that, one must have the eyes to see
experienced within a specific limit. Similarly, theory that the spirit soul, or the spiritual God also. God cannot be seen with our
our consciousness is perceived within the consciousness, develops at a certain point in imperfect senses. So the whole bhakti
limit of our particular body, but the material combination. The term svayaà-jyotiù process, bhakti-yoga, is the process of
superconsciousness, or the existence of God, indicates that there is no tinge of anything purifying the senses to take, to understand
is perceived everywhere. He is present material or any material reaction. It is what is God, what is spirit, what is soul. It
everywhere by His energy. It is stated in the confirmed here that the concept of the Lord’s requires... Sarvopädhi-vinirmuktaà tat-
Viñëu Puräëa that whatever we find, all-pervasiveness is due to His illumination paratvena nirmalam [Cc. Madhya 19.170].
anywhere and everywhere, is the distribution everywhere. We have experience that the sun Änukülyena kåñëänuçélanaà bhaktir uttamä.
of the energy of the Supreme Lord. In is situated in one place, but the sunlight is And in the Närada-païcarätra,
Bhagavad-gétä also it is confirmed that the diffused all around for millions and millions sarvopädhi-vinirmuktaà
Lord is all-pervading and exists everywhere of miles. That is our practical experience. tat-paratvena nirmalam
by His two kinds of energy, one spiritual and Similarly, although the supreme light is håñékeëa håñékeça-
the other material. Both the spiritual and situated in His personal abode, Vaikuëöha or sevanaà bhaktir ucyate
material energies are spread everywhere, and Våndävana, His light is diffused not only in [Cc. Madhya 19.170]
that is the proof of the existence of the the spiritual world but beyond that. In the Simply, this bhakti-yoga is the process of
Supreme Personality of Godhead. material world also, that light is reflected by purifying, purifying. As soon as you purify
The existence of consciousness everywhere is the sun globe, and the sunlight is reflected by your power of seeing, power of hearing,
not temporary. It is without beginning, and the moon globe. Thus although He is situated power of tasting, power of touching, all
because it is without beginning, it is also in His own abode, His light is distributed all these... We have got our senses to taste, to
without end. The theory that consciousness over the spiritual and material worlds. The acquire knowledge. But if the senses are
develops at a certain stage of material Brahma-saàhitä (5.37) confirms this. Goloka blunt, then we cannot understand what is
combination is not accepted herein, for the eva nivasaty akhilätma-bhütaù: He is living in God. But therefore you require regulative
consciousness which exists everywhere is Goloka, but still He is present all over the principles to understand what is God. That
said to be without beginning. The creation. He is the Supersoul of everything, regulative principle must be undertaken. And
materialistic or atheistic theory stating that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and He the easiest regulative principle is this chanting
there is no soul, that there is no God and that has innumerable transcendental qualities. It is of Hare Kåñëa. If you regularly chant with
consciousness is the result of a combination also concluded that although He is devotion, without any offense, then this very
of matter is not acceptable. Matter is not undoubtedly a person, He is not a puruña of simple process will help you to purify your
beginningless; it has a beginning. As this this material world. Mäyävädé philosophers senses and you will appreciate presence of
material body has a beginning, the universal cannot understand that beyond this material God, and God consciousness, Kåñëa
body does also. And as our material body has world there can be a person; therefore they consciousness will develop in you.
begun on the basis of our soul, the entire are impersonalists. But it is explained very
gigantic universal body has begun on the nicely here that the Personality of Godhead is Believe it or Not – GOD Exists
basis of the Supreme Soul. The Vedänta-sütra beyond material existence. Çyämasundara: But he has a philosophy of
says, janmädy asya [SB 1.1.1]. This entire SB 3.26.4 religion. And he says that the believer in God
material exhibition—its creation, its growth, has a greater chance than the doubter to
its maintenance and its dissolution—is an By Immediate experience discover truth and to gain...
emanation from the Supreme Person. In Disciple: Jung goes on to point out the Prabhupäda: That... Vinaçyati. Those who are
Bhagavad-gétä also, the Lord says, “I am the difference between theologians and doubtful, they vinaçyati; they are finished.
beginning, the source of birth of everything.” philosophers. He writes, “At least they [the Çyämasundara: Yes. He says that at least the
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is theologians] are sure that God exists, even believer has a greater chance to gain practical
described here. He is not a temporary person, though they make contradictory statements advantages by his belief, whereas the doubter
nor does He have a beginning. He is without a about Him.… God’s existence does not doesn’t stand any chance to gain...
cause, and He is the cause of all causes. paraù depend on our proofs.… I understand that Prabhupäda: That is good. That is good. Then
means “transcendental,” “beyond the creative God was, for me at least, one of the most whether he is a believer or a doubter?
energy.” The Lord is the creator of the certain and immediate of experiences.” Çyämasundara: He is a believer, but the
creative energy. We can see that there is a Çréla Prabhupäda: Yes, that is a extent of his belief we’ll discuss in a few
creative energy in the material world, but He transcendental conviction. One may not know moments. He says that the one who
is not under this energy. He is prakåti-paraù, God, but it is very easy to understand that disbelieves faces the added risk of losing any
beyond this energy. He is not subjected to the God is there. One has to learn about God’s chance of discovering the truth.
threefold miseries created by the material nature, but there is no doubt about the fact Prabhupäda: Yes.
energy because He is beyond it. The modes of that God is there. Any sane man can Çyämasundara: So it is better to believe, even
material nature do not touch Him. It is understand that he is being controlled. So though one doesn’t know for sure. It is better
explained here, svayaà-jyotiù: He is light who is that controller? The supreme to believe because it gives one more chance
Himself. We have experience in the material controller is God. This is the conclusion of a of discovering the truth. He says that we have
world of one light’s being a reflection of sane man. Jung is right when he says that the right to believe in God, even in the
another, just as moonlight is a reflection of God’s existence does not depend on our absence of absolute proof. Even though there
the sunlight. Sunlight is also the reflection of proof. is no absolute proof, he says, of the existence
the brahmajyoti. Similarly, brahmajyoti, the of God, still we have the right to believe in
God because this helps us to get closer to the poor fund of knowledge. Everything... changing; the seas is in its position. Just like
truth. It gives us a better chance. Suppose this is a country, Indonesia, nicely the Pacific Ocean at any moment it can
Prabhupäda: That means he accepts God is being managed; the roads are there; the overflow at any place. But it does not do so.
truth and that He’s existing. Does he say like policemen there, they’re directing... Just You walk... I was walking in Los Angeles just
that or not? yesterday we were trying to enter in a one about three feet away from the sea. So I was
Çyämasundara: Yes. He says there is no way, policeman directs. So this symptom says explaining to my students, “Now, I am just
absolute proof, but... that there is a good government. So any sane three feet away from the sea and the sea is so
Prabhupäda: But that is proof. man, he’ll see the cosmic manifestation—that vast. At any second it can overflood us. But
Çyämasundara: ...by my belief I get more... the sun is rising exactly in time; the moon is why you are confident the sea will not come
Prabhupäda: That he is saying, that if rising exactly in time; the seasons are here?” Because we know, by God’s order,
somebody believes, he has got greater chance. changing; the seas is in its position. Just like although the sea, the ocean, is so big, it
Unless the fact is there, simply by believing, the Pacific Ocean at any moment it can cannot violate the order of God. That you are
how there is chance? overflow at any place. But it does not do so. big, that’s all right. But you cannot come
Çyämasundara: He says that by this belief I You walk... I was walking in Los Angeles just beyond this line. So these things are being
get some strength, some happiness, some about three feet away from the sea. So I was managed. And there is no God? What a
practical advantage; therefore I have the right explaining to my students, “Now, I am just nonsense. If things are... Just like when you
to believe, because I get a practical benefit. three feet away from the sea and the sea is so pass through a house, sometimes if you don’t
Prabhupäda: So practical benefit... Suppose vast. At any second it can overflood us. But see—the house is not properly taken care of,
you are getting some warmth, so you believe why you are confident the sea will not come or there is no light in front of the house, there
there must be some fire. So I believe. Unless here?” Because we know, by God’s order, are so many garbages, we immediately say,
there is fire, how there is warmth? although the sea, the ocean, is so big, it “Oh, there is no man in this house.” And as
Çyämasundara: Yes. So the belief itself is the cannot violate the order of God. That you are soon as you see house is very nicely kept,
proof. big, that’s all right. But you cannot come there is light and the garden is kept, we
Prabhupäda: Yes. beyond this line. So these things are being understand there is a man. So this is common
Devänanda: Çréla Prabhupäda, one thing managed. And there is no God? What a sense. If things are going on, everything is
about James as distinct from many other nonsense. If things are... Just like when you going on so nicely, how you can say there is
philosophers is that he felt the personal pass through a house, sometimes if you don’t no management, there is no brain? How you
experience of God. see—the house is not properly taken care of, can say? What is this nonsense? How you can
Prabhupäda: Everyone has got personal or there is no light in front of the house, there say there is no God? Asatyam apratiñöhaà te
experience of God. are so many garbages, we immediately say, jagad ähur anéçvaram [Bg. 16.8]. These are
Devänanda: But he recognized it as such. “Oh, there is no man in this house.” And as the rascal, atheist proposition, asatyam. There
Prabhupäda: Somebody He reveals; soon as you see house is very nicely kept, is no proof in it. Zero. From zero it has come.
sometimes he does not believe—He hides. there is light and the garden is kept, we Just see nonsense. Does anything come out of
Everyone has got. Everyone. A human being, understand there is a man. So this is common zero? You assemble zero, many millions of
every human being has got. sense. If things are going on, everything is zero in one place, but still it is zero. Do you
Devänanda: That’s true. The only going on so nicely, how you can say there is think that if you make zero, zero, zero, zero,
experience... no management, there is no brain? How you zero, million times, has it any value? How do
Prabhupäda: No, no. The atheists, simply can say? What is this nonsense? How you can they conclude from zero such a management,
artificially they cover. Naturally he has belief. say there is no God? Asatyam apratiñöhaà te cosmic manifestation has come? The flower
Naturally he has belief. Even in this primitive jagad ähur anéçvaram [Bg. 16.8]. These are is coming out nicely in its own way. The tree
stage, as soon as there is something the rascal, atheist proposition, asatyam. There is coming. Human being is coming.
wonderful, natural phenomenon, they offer is no proof in it. Zero. From zero it has come. Everything is in order. And there is no
respects, the primitive man. The man in the Just see nonsense. Does anything come out of management. How much rascaldom. Just see.
jungle, as soon as he sees a big ocean, he zero? You assemble zero, many millions of So these atheist class, they’re rascals,
offers his respects. As soon as he sees a big zero in one place, but still it is zero. Do you müòhäù, third-class men without any
mountain, he offers his respects. As soon as think that if you make zero, zero, zero, zero, knowledge. Na mäà duñkåtinaù. I’ve already
there is a thunderbolt... This is called zero, million times, has it any value? How do explained. Using the merit for sinful
realization of the çakti. Parasya brahmaëaù they conclude from zero such a management, activities, they’re called duñkåtiù. And
çakti. So this is çakta stage, realization of cosmic manifestation has come? The flower müòhäù, these rascals, who cannot understand
God by seeing something wonderful. That is is coming out nicely in its own way. The tree how the management is going on, müòhäù.
çakta stage. Then after this state, çakta, is coming. Human being is coming.
sauréyam. Çakta stage, worshiping the energy Everything is in order. And there is no Destroying CHANCE Theory
of God—everything is energy; then management. How much rascaldom. Just see. Puñöa Kåñëa: This philosophy pervades all of
çaktyopäsanam, then çaktasauréyam, then So these atheist class, they’re rascals, modern science.
suryopäsanam, worshiping the sun, because it müòhäù, third-class men without any Prabhupäda: Hm?
is the reservoir of all energies according to knowledge. Na mäà duñkåtinaù. I’ve already Puñöa Kåñëa: This chance theory.
the material world. Çakta, sauréya then explained. Using the merit for sinful Prabhupäda: Yes.
gäëapatya. The gäëapatya means that is activities, they’re called duñkåtiù. And Puñöa Kåñëa: They say that “By chance, after
humanitarian. That energy is distributed— müòhäù, these rascals, who cannot understand some time...”
pantheism, humanitarian. Çakta, sauriyam, how the management is going on, müòhäù. Prabhupäda: Because they have finished their
gäëapatya, then çaiva, you go on. Then science. They have researched and done so
Vaiñëava. Impersonal then personalist. many years now, their scientific knowledge is
Çyämasundara: There is also the demigods in Where does GOD come from? liquidated. Now they are giving this chance
charge of those different departments? Rascal means denying the existence of God. theory, therefore, because they cannot explain
Different demigods... He’s a rascal. Anyone who denies the anything. That’s all. Their vidyä buddhi is
Prabhupäda: That is gäëapatya. Gaëapati, the existence of God, he’s a rascal. Rascal means finished. That is the problem now. For the
worshiper of Gaëeça. Gäëapatya. poor fund of knowledge. Everything... scientists, it is a problem now. Now, so far
Çyämasundara: Çakti. Suppose this is a country, Indonesia, nicely their limited knowledge is concerned, they
Prabhupäda: Çakti, Sürya, Gaëapati, Çiva, being managed; the roads are there; the have done everything, discovered everything.
and then Viñëu—païcopäsanam. This is policemen there, they’re directing... Just Now there is no scope of working and
called païcopäsanam. yesterday we were trying to enter in a one discovering. That is the position of the
way, policeman directs. So this symptom says scientists.
Good Management means Manager that there is a good government. So any sane Païca-draviòa: So they should come to you.
Rascal means denying the existence of God. man, he’ll see the cosmic manifestation—that Prabhupäda: Well, that is another thing. Rut
He’s a rascal. Anyone who denies the the sun is rising exactly in time; the moon is this is their actual position. Now their
existence of God, he’s a rascal. Rascal means rising exactly in time; the seasons are position is how to bluff and get money,
because talk is finished. Now bluffing stock is cut, separated?” So one friend said, “It is by you feel some heat, you can immediately
now finished. Now they have to give theories knife.” And the other friend said, “No, it was understand there is some fire. And if there is
like this “chance” and make big, big words, by scissor.” So they went on.... One said, light, you can immediately understand there is
jugglery. “No! It is knife.” He said, “No! It is scissor.” fire. The light you can see, and heat we can
Tamäla Kåñëa: Why don’t they make So the knife man was very strong. So he took feel. By feeling or seeing, we can understand
research into consciousness? him to the water, that “You say it is knife. the existence of God everywhere. This is
Prabhupäda: What they’ll be finished? Otherwise I shall drown you.” (laughter) So intelligence, not that... They challenge
Whatever their limited knowledge they he said, “I’ll never say.” Then he said.... foolishly, “I can... Can you show me God? I
possess, that is finished now. They have no When he was drowning, he was doing like cannot see God, therefore...” No. Why you
scope. this, (Prabhupäda gesticulates) (laughter) cannot see God? You can feel the presence of
Tamäla Kåñëa: They should look to the field “Scissor, scissor.” When he was actually God by heat and light. Light. Light you can
of consciousness. drowned and he had no other means to say, see. When there is sunshine, you can see both
Dharmädhyakña: They are doing it now, but then he was doing like this: “It is scissor. It is the light and the heat. So as it is confirmed in
they are studying the brain. They think the scissor.” This is their argument. However the Vedic literature, we should appreciate the
brain is the source of consciousness. So they punished they may be, they’ll do this. presence of God everywhere by His different
study people... (laughter) energies, exactly like heat and light.
Prabhupäda: So wherefrom the brain came? Madhudviña: [break] ...that you are too So this energy of Kåñëa... He has got multi-
What they’ll answer? impatient. energies.
Dharmädhyakña: Well, it has evolved. Prabhupäda: Eh? na tasya käryaà karaëaà ca vidyate
Prabhupäda: Again by chance. “Brain became Madhudviña: They will say that you are too na tat-samaç cäbhyadhikaç ca dåçyate
by chance.” That means failure of their stock. impatient. We see that in all science there’s paräsya çaktir vividhaiva çrüyate
Dharmädhyakña: I heard one professor in been a natural progression. Now they have.... sväbhäviki jïäna-bala-kriyä ca
Berkeley... In the test tube they have made some tissues, This is Vedic injunction. Na tasya käryaà
Prabhupäda: You, you prepare brain, or keep and the tissues are sustaining themselves and karaëaà ca vidyate. Kåñëa... Here He is
something that by chance there will be a are living. So in due course, they’ll be able to playing on His flute, but His energies are
brain. create some functioning brain. working. Just like a big man, a big business
Tamäla Kåñëa: Make a monkey’s brain by Prabhupäda: Then what is the use of your magnate: he is sitting in his room, but his
chance. creation? It is already created. Why you are, energy is working—big, big factory is going
Yaçodänandana: In the Çrémad-Bhägavatam, rascal, working? Why? on; large amount of profit is coming
in one of your purports, you mention that Madhudviña: We can create a better brain. automatically. So if it is possible for ordinary
great scientists like Einstein, Newton and Prabhupäda: No. human being that he is sitting in one place,
Chandra Bose had such great brains, but who Madhudviña: By our scientific endeavor. and still, things are going on by management
has created their brain? Prabhupäda: You cannot do even a lesser. of his energy, so why not Kåñëa, the Supreme
Prabhupäda: Yes. How you can expect to do...? Lord? He is sitting in one place. Goloka eva
Yaçodänandana: This is a very clever Trivikrama: Post-dated check again. nivasaty akhilätma-bhütaù [Bs. 5.37].
argument of Your Divine Grace. Prabhupäda: Again the same. Änanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhävitäbhis täbhir
Prabhupäda: Yes. Yes. ya eva nija-rüpatayä kaläbhiù, goloka eva
Yaçodänandana: That they will not research. Dharmädhyakña: Çréla Prabhupäda, we saw a nivasaty akhilätma-bhütaù. He is situated in
Prabhupäda: We are appreciating the brain of science film in Stanford, and one process of His planet, Goloka Våndävana; still His
big, big scientist. But who has created that protein synthesis they called “The Magic energies are going on. The material energy is
brain? No appreciation. Just see how fool Factor.” working, this material world. Kåñëa says,
they are. You cannot create that brain. You Prabhupäda: Again, that cau... mayädhyakñeëa prakåtiù süyate sa-caräcaram
create another contemporary brain like that Dharmädhyakña: They didn’t... [Bg. 9.10]. Under His vigilance all the laws of
big, big man. Even that big man cannot. The Prabhupäda: Chance. Magic is also a chance. material nature is going on. Exactly in time
big men, before dying, he should have Dharmädhyakña: So that must have been the the sun is rising, the moon is rising.
considered, “Now I’ll die now. Let me create Kåñëa factor. Everything is going on minutely, very nicely.
another brain like me, and that will work.” Guru-kåpä: Everything else but Kåñëa. Paräsya çaktiù. Sväbhäviké jïäna-bala-kriyä
That they cannot do. Magic. ca. It is going so nicely that Kåñëa hasn’t got
Païca-draviòa: So they think chance. Prabhupäda: [break] You see the tree, coconut to learn how to do it. The machine is so
Prabhupäda: So there must be third man, third tree, the hard nut and the water. Now, perfect, it is going on perfectly. The flower is
brain who has created. You cannot do it. according to scientific idea, there must be coming by His energy. Puëyo gandhaù
Yaçodänandana: There is actual proof, pipe, there must be pumping and there must påthivyäà ca. The special seed you sow on the
Prabhupäda, that when these scientists and be water. Then you can raise the water. But ground and a particular type of plant will
great, so-called poets, when they die, refusing where is such, such things? How the water is come out, then rose will come out, a
to admit the authority of God, they die a very coming? particular flavor will come out. Sväbhäviké
terrible death. Just like in France there used to Païca-draviòa: To the tree? jïäna-bala-kriyä ca. We do not see how
be a great philosopher named Voltaire, and at Prabhupäda: Yes, on the top, so high. There is Kåñëa’s energies are working, but it is
the end of his life, because his whole writings no pipe. There is no pump, nothing. You do working. Don’t think that “It is
and existence he tried to disprove the it. Instead of calling a plumber, you do automatically... There was a chunk and there
existence of God, he went insane, and he was something that the water will come in this was...” No. Not like that. Everything. But His
eating his own stool and urine. And a priest tank. energy is so perfect. Just like if you want to
came to him and said, “Why don’t you accept Devotee (2): Well, they will say that the roots paint one nice flower, you have to arrange so
the existence of God? You have become such of the tree is bringing the water up. many things—color, and the brush, and the
great poet.” He said, “I will never accept the Prabhupäda: That is a nonsense. You make painting cloth—and you have to apply your
existence of God.” But he became to the point such root and bring water here. Then your energies and... But still, it will not come so
where he was eating his own stool and urine. scientific knowledge will be proved. But you perfect. But Kåñëa’s energies are so perfect
Prabhupäda: Just see. cannot do it. Can you do it? We are spending that we see automatically, but there is
Yaçodänandana: This has been recorded... so much money for bringing water. Bring that supervision of Kåñëa. There is no question of
Prabhupäda: This is the punishment, yes. root and bring water. accident. Everything is supervised.
Punishment there is always. But they are so Sväbhäviké jïäna-bala-kriyä ca. We have to
stubborn fools still. Kåñëa’s Wonderful Creations do it with our hand, to paint a picture of a
Dharmädhyakña: Prabhupäda, the one great Whatever we see, that is manifestation of the nice rose flower, but in the nature the flower
brain researcher, he spent nineteen years Supreme Lord’s different energies. The is coming out. We see automatically. No. The
searching for the memory in the brain. example is the fire and the heat and light. Kåñëa’s energy is working, there but it is
Prabhupäda: There is a story that two friends That’s all. So heat is the material energy, and going on so swiftly, so, I mean to say,
talking that, on the point that “How this was light is the spiritual energy. Just like when accurately, that he hasn’t got to exact His
energy, but it is working automatically. Indian man: Sir, my question still remains again. This is the case with all material
Sväbhäviké jïäna-bala-kriyä ca. Whatever unanswered. I said when human being objects. The materialist’s suggestion that
knowledge is required... If you have studied, surrenders completely, as I said, manasä väcä beyond the material sky there is “some other
you will find in the petals of the flower the karmaëä... form” which is beyond the boundary of
color, exactly symmetrical, everything. Prabhupäda: Yes. visibility and which is strange and
Whatever color is required, it is coming out. Indian man: Now the initiative is completely inconceivable is but a faint indication of the
We say “automatically.” No automatically. taken away from the human being. spiritual sky. However, the basic principle of
Sväbhäviké jïäna-bala-kriyä. The knowledge Prabhupäda: Yes. spirit is much closer—for it functions within
and the action of Kåñëa is so perfect, it is Indian man: How is a human being going to all living beings. When that spiritual principle
coming out. continue in this world if it has to exist, and if is out of the material body, then the material
the initiative is not left to the human being, as body has no life. Within the body of a child,
One who cannot understand immediately the you say that God is there and God has to be for instance, the spiritual principle is present,
Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kåñëa, he accepted? But my father, his father, his great- and therefore changes take place in the body
can try to understand Him by His different godfather, everyone say that God exists. I’ll and it develops. But if the spirit leaves the
potencies. Just like He says that “I am the be also telling my son, and his son, and his body, the development stops. This law is
taste of the water.” Raso ’ham apsu kaunteya: son. This is, this is passing on the very applicable to every material object. Matter
taste of water, or the sweetness of water. So existence of God from mouth to mouth. And transforms from one shape to another when it
there is sufficient supply of water in the now, because there is a word like “God,” do is in contact with spirit. Without spirit there is
oceans and the seas. Then why we are in we blindly surrender to Him, an identity no transformation. The entire universe
scarcity of water? Because that taste of the which human being has not seen... develops in that way. It emanates from the
water should be changed by the grace of Prabhupäda: No, no. energy of the Transcendence because of the
Kåñëa. Otherwise you cannot use it. That is Indian man: No one in the world has seen that spiritual force which is His, and it develops
Kåñëa consciousness. You can also change, there is God? And... into gigantic forms like the sun, moon, earth,
by distilling the sea water, or ocean water, but Prabhupäda: You cannot say that no one has etc. There are fourteen divisions of planetary
it will not be as tasteful as it is done by God. seen. You have not seen. systems, and although they are all different in
Or you can say nature. The same water, taken Indian man: I have not seen. dimension and quality, the same principle of
from the ocean, transferred, transformed into Prabhupäda: Yes, that’s all. (laughter) development holds true for all. The spiritual
cloud, the cloud is distributed, and water, Indian man: Yes, but there may be... force is the creator, and by this spiritual
rain, falls. You get nice distilled water, Prabhupäda: You cannot say others. principle only, transformation, transition and
tasteful water. So if you are going to Indian man: ...that I take your word, and I... development take place.
challenge there is no existence of God, then Prabhupäda: No, no. First of all, you should Life is definitely not generated simply by a
you can do it. Why don’t you do it? Why you withdraw. You have not seen. But you cannot material reaction like a chemical combination,
are so much in scarcity of water? I do not say others have not seen. as many foolish men claim. Material
think any scientist can very boldly answer Indian man: I have not seen. That’s why I... interaction is set in motion by a superior
that “Yes, we can do and we can defy the Prabhupäda: That’s all right. So you have to being who creates a favorable circumstance to
existence of God, or the mercy of God.” That learn how to see. Then you have to learn how accommodate the spiritual living force. The
is not possible. Raso ’ham apsu kaunteya to see. You cannot see; you remain ignorant, superior energy handles matter in an
prabhäsmi çaçi-süryayoù. Kåñëa says that “I fool, and you want to see God. You have to appropriate way—as determined by the free
am the shining of the sun and the moon.” learn how to see God. will of the spiritual being. For example,
Now, there..., there are so many great building materials do not automatically
scientists, and expert in chemical Reasonable Logic of Sun & Creator “react” and suddenly assume the shape of a
composition, making chemical composition. The heat and luminosity of the sun’s rays residential house. The living spiritual being
Why not make a small sun on the head of the demonstrate to the satisfaction of any rational handles matter appropriately by his free will
[break] city so that you save so much man that the sun, the source of the rays, is and thus constructs his house. Similarly,
expenditure of electric light? They’ll say, certainly not a dark, cold globe but rather a matter is the ingredient only, but the spirit is
“Oh, the composition of the sun is like this, reservoir of almost unlimited heat and light. the creator. Only a man with a poor fund of
that.” So many theories. But why not prepare Similarly, the innumerable instances of knowledge avoids this conclusion. The
also? If you know the composition, make it a personality and personal consciousness within creator may remain unseen in the background,
sample sun and see that it is shining. creation are more than adequate to but that does not mean that there is no creator.
demonstrate the existence, somewhere, of an One should not be illusioned simply by the
Learning to see GOD unlimited reservoir of consciousness and gigantic form of the material universe.
Prabhupäda: Yes. Because without we..., our personal behavior. In his dialogue Philebus, Rather, one should learn to discern the
present position is to defy the existence of the Greek philosopher Plato argued that just existence of supreme intelligence behind all
God. This is our present position in material as the material elements in our body are these material manifestations. The Supreme
life. “There is no God. God is dead. I am derived from a vast reservoir of material Being, who is the supreme intelligence, is the
God. You are God.” This is defying the elements existing within the universe, our ultimate creator, the all-attractive Personality
authority of God. Therefore to understand rational intelligence is also derived from a of Godhead, Çré Kåñëa. Although one may
God, you have to surrender; otherwise it is great cosmic intelligence existing within the not be aware of this, there is definite
not possible. You cannot defy and at the same universe, and this supreme intelligence is information of the creator given in Vedic
time understand God. That is not possible. God, the creator. Unfortunately, in Kali-yuga literatures such as the Bhagavad-gétä and
Nähaà prakäçaù sarvasya yogamäyä- many leading thinkers cannot understand this especially the Çrémad-Bhägavatam.
samävåtaù [Bg. 7.25]. You cannot understand and instead deny that the Absolute Truth, the When a satellite is thrown into outer space, a
God by challenging. Why God? Suppose we, source of our personal consciousness, has child may not understand that there are
we go to the president of our country. If I consciousness and personality. This is as scientific brains behind it, but an intelligent
challenge, “Mr. President, what is your value? reasonable as saying that the sun is cold and adult realizes that scientific brains on earth
Can you tell me what you are?” you cannot dark. are controlling the satellite. Similarly, less
know him. No. You have to surrender. You >>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 12.3.43 intelligent persons do not have information of
have to become friendly and serve him, the creator and His eternal abode in the
please him. Then he’ll understand. Spirit in essence gives life to matter spiritual world, which is far beyond our range
Sevonmukhe hi jivhädau svayam eva Therefore all material shapes are subject to of visibility, but in actuality there is a spiritual
sphuraty adhaù. You cannot challenge. Just the law of change, although potentially the sky, and spiritual planets which are more
like the sun is not visible at night. If you material energy is conserved. Potentially, spacious and greater in number than planets
challenge, “O sun, can you show me where everything is eternal, but in the material in the material sky. From the Bhagavad-gétä
you are?” No. You have to wait for his mercy. world matter takes shape, remains for some we receive information that the material
In the morning, you’ll see. This is the process. time, develops into maturity, grows old, universe only constitutes a fraction (one
begins to dwindle and at last disappears fourth) of the creation. Such information is
extensively available in the Çrémad- number of wives. Otherwise, there is no if the world is false, then why you are coming
Bhägavatam and in other Vedic literatures. meaning of omnipotent. So similarly, God has to open school and hospitals? Because they
>>> Ref. VedaBase => EJ 1: Antimaterial become many, and He has got a plan behind could not get... And some other sannyäsé
Worlds this thinking of many. Now, out of these also, he is now taking part in politics. If jagat
manies, if one wants to merge again into the is mithyä, why you are taking part in politics?
Purpose of Creation existence of God, so God has no objection. These question are there.
God is the father or creator or whatever, or
the source of all life, or source of our >>> Ref. VedaBase => Bhagavad-gétä 2.12 -- >>> Ref. VedaBase => Bhagavad-gétä 16.6 --
existence. Whatever you like, you can say. So New York, March 9, 1966 South Africa, October 18, 1975
we have, we have been created in that way.
Eko bahu syäma. God has become many. This Buddha’s Creation Theory & View of On One God with different names
is also version of the Vedas that many, all Impersonalists on existence of this creation Acyutänanda: Question: I believe in Kåñëa
these many, we are also god. Just like the fire So it is a false... When the Mäyävädé but please clarify the following doubts. Lord
diffuses its sparks. The sparks coming out of sannyäsés say that jagan mithyä, Jagad ähur Kåñëa is the Supreme Personality of
the fire, it is the..., they are also part and anéçvaram [Bg. 16.8], “There is no God...” Godhead, so when Kåñëa is the only God in
parcel of the fire. Similarly we, we are all The Bauddha philosophers, they say that the world, the creator of the whole universe,
parts and parcels of the Supreme. Now, He “This jagat, this world, has come into then why the existence of Jesus Christ and
wanted to become many. He wanted to existence by combination of matter.” The Allah? Why should not only one God for all?
become many, so He has become many, and modern scientists also say. They say that Why Christians and Muslims are not
we are that many. So we are not different “Chemical evolution, by combination of accepting Kåñëa as God?
from God. We are not different from God, but chemicals, everything has come out, but there Prabhupäda: They are accepting God, but
because He wanted to become many, so we is no creator.” They will deny this. This is the they did not disclose the name of God
have become many. Now, thing is, when God symptom of the asura. So from this because the people are unable to understand.
wanted to become many, there must be some instruction you can understand who is a rascal “Kåñëa” means “the all-attractive.” That is
purpose behind this. Otherwise, why did He and asura. As soon as they say that “There is the meaning of Kåñëa. So unless God is all-
like to become many? He was one, one no God. The world is created by chance. By attractive, how He can be God? “Kåñëa”
without second. That’s all right. But why did chance...” Aparaspara-bhütam. Aparaspara: means all-attractive.
He become many? “One thing mixed with another thing...” ahaà sarvasya prabhavo
So that is a question, one must like to put, that How the example? The example is kim anyat mattaù sarvaà pravartate
“Why God became many?” So that is, that käma-haitukam. Just like a man and woman, iti matvä bhajante mäà
answer is that because God is sac-cid-änanda- by chance they become lusty and have sex, budhä bhäva-samanvitäù
vigraha [Bs. 5.1]—He’s all-pleasure— and the woman becomes pregnant, and the [Bg. 10.8]
therefore, without many, there is no pleasure. child is coming, just like this is a creation, When one understands Kåñëa... To
Just like here I sit down the whole day alone, accidentally, accident. The man or woman understand Kåñëa it takes little time.
but I become more active and more pleasing becomes lusty accidentally, and there is sex Manuñyäëäà sahasreñu kaçcid yatati
when you come. Whenever we want to enjoy and therefore the creation of the child. This is siddhaye, yatatäm api siddhänäm [Bg. 7.3].
some pleasure, pleasure is not enjoyed alone. their theory, not that “This child is a living So Kåñëa revealed Himself in India before
Pleasure is enjoyed with many. Now God is entity, and he is coming from his last birth, Arjuna, and what the others will understand
by nature... He’s änandamayo ’bhyäsät. He’s and he’s taking particular type of body about Kåñëa unless he’s advanced like
always full of pleasure, full of blissfulness. according to his last birth,” no conclusion like Arjuna? So there are different persons, so
Now, if He wants to become many, it is... that. “God is the judge what kind of body he different types of religion they have revealed.
He’s omnipotent. He can become many. should get.” Daiva-netreëa. That is also Kåñëa—but, to some extent. The
Where is the objection there? He can... He Karmaëä daiva-netreëa. There are so many full extent they cannot understand. Just like
can manifest Himself in various... Just now things behind this child’s birth. Why this Lord Jesus Christ says “Thou shall not kill.”
we have quoted a verse from Brahma-saàhitä, child is coming to a poor father or rich father Just imagine what the audience were. They
advaitam acyutam anädim ananta-rüpam [Bs if it is accident? Why one child is suffering, are killers. So what they’ll understand about
5.33]. Ananta-rüpam means unlimited forms. one is not, is very comfortable position? So Kåñëa? Let them first stop this killing. Then
Unlimited forms. Ad... Still, they are one. In there is behind so many things, but they do the stage will come he’ll understand what is
spite of becoming unlimited, they’re one. Just not know. Because they are asura, they think, Kåñëa.
like the sun. If you put here millions of pots, “It is accident” or “there is no life. Kill it. If yeñäà tv anta-gataà päpaà
waterpots, in every pot you’ll find the sun’s you feel botheration then kill it. Finish this janänäà puëya-karmaëäm
reflection. But that millions of reflections, business.” These are the asuric conclusion. te dvandva-moha-nirmuktä
sun, does not mean that sun has lost his Jagad ähur... asatyam apratiñöham. This is bhajante mäà dåòha-vratäù
oneness. Sun is one. That is also a Vedic false. They say that jagan mithyä, “So we [Bg. 7.28]
system, that we are all reflection like that. So have nothing to do.” Brahma satyam and... One who is sinful, the first instruction should
anyway, these many, many forms of God, is Brahman is satya, that’s fact, but we say, we be, “You stop your sinful activities.” Then the
from the desire of God. Now, out of these... Vaiñëavas say, that “The jagat is created by opportunity will come to understand Kåñëa.
Because God has got some desire, Brahman. How it is false? How the satya can That is stated in the... Yeñäà tu anta-gataà
transcendental desire, to enjoy with many. He create asatya?” This logic they cannot päpam. One who is sinful, what he will
enjoys with His own energy because He is understand. If the man who has created, who understand about Kåñëa? First of all, stop
all-perfect. Just like if I want to enjoy life, I has cooked so many nice things, so if he is a sinful activities. Then this stage will come,
want family, I want a wife, I want children, I fact, then the cooking is also a fact. How you he’ll understand Kåñëa. Therefore Jesus
want friends, I want servants. So I have to can say the cooking is false? That is not Christ said, “You nonsense, stop killing.”
think before having a wife. You see? Because knowledge. Then there will be time we’ll understand one
I am limited, so I think twice, whether I am Therefore sometimes we find that although day Kåñëa. So the first instruction is to stop
able to keep a wife, then whether I am able to they say it is mithyä, jagan mithyä, and take sinful activities; then he’ll be qualified.
maintain my children. These things are sannyäsa and for some days they remain yeñäà tv anta-gataà päpaà
consideration. And actually, in the present meditation or aloof from any worldly affairs, janänäà puëya-karmaëäm
society every young man is thinking like that. but later on, when they do not find Brahman, te dvandva-moha-nirmuktä
You see? Whenever the question of marrying they come again to this mäyä to open bhajante mäà dåòha-vratäù
is there, they think like that. But that thinking hospitals, schools, as sannyäsé. Just like in [Bg. 7.28]
is due to our imperfectness. Because we are our country there are many. The beginning So everything by step by step, not by jump.
not all-powerful, therefore we think like that. we see that... Vivekananda Swami, he took That is not possible.
But when we give the qualification to God sannyäsa and meditation. Later on, after his
that He is all-powerful, omnipotent, so He can touring in the Western countries, he came to >>> Ref. VedaBase => Çrémad-Bhägavatam
maintain any number of children or any India to open hospitals, schools, like that. But 5.5.2 -- Hyderabad, April 12, 1975
 Just like what you can do, I cannot do. Your do it!” But now many of us are sensing that
Creation implies a creator workmanship may not be equal with my the experiment has failed. People are feeling
“Because God is distributed all over workmanship. Your brain work may not be that they’ve lost their moral bearings amidst a
everywhere, therefore there is no separate equal to my brain work. There are chaotic sea of hedonism. Duty is once again
existence of God.” But we do not say that. differences. Each and every living entity, they in favor.
We say that, the example, that because the are different from each other so far individual But duty to whom, and for what? We can
sun is distributing his heat and energy, capacities are concerned. So in spite of answer these questions only by understanding
therefore you cannot say that there is no many... That is God’s creation. In spite of the other part of dharma—our essential
existence of sun. Sun is separately existing. In many, each and every thing, you will find characteristic. If our essential characteristic is
spite of distributing for millions of years heat, there is some difference. You can sit down at to render loving service to Kåñëa, then our
the reservation of heat in the sun is intact. It is a place in New York and go on counting and primary duty is to focus our attention on
not diminished. But everyone knows that for seeing all people passing before you—you awakening this loving service, or bhakti, in
millions and billions of years the sun is won’t find one man is exactly like the other ourselves and helping others achieve the same
distributing heat. Nobody knows the history, man. Not only that, in court, you know, every goal.
how long. Your distributing center, the one of you know, that they take impression of
powerhouse, if you fail to supply coal or oil, the left hand thumb impression. Now, this
then after one hour the whole New York City thumb impression... You go on taking
will be dark. So just you can imagine who is millions and millions of thumb impression,
supplying the fuel in the heat of the sun so and you won’t find one thumb impression is
that for millions and billions of years the heat exactly like the other. And because there is
of the sun is in the same temperature. So this difference of thumb impression, therefore the
is only one of the creation of the God, God’s identity is taken in that way, that “This
creation. But just imagine. If God’s creation particular man’s thumb impression, even if he
is so unlimited and so much energetic, then denies his signature, the thumb impression
how much energetic and how much powerful will collaborate that his signature is this.” So
is the creator? That is to be... These things are that is God’s creation.
to be thought. In everything, everything, we
can have God consciousness. If this watch is >>> Ref. VedaBase => Lecture on Mahä-
so wonderful workmanship and we are struck mantra -- New York, September 8, 1966
with wonder how nicely it is giving time, how
the machine is adjusted, now, before Living in harmony with one’ nature
appreciating this watch, how much we have Let’s first consider nature. Everything has its
to appreciate the person who has discovered particular nature, a unique and essential
this watch, how much brain he has got? quality that defines its existence. In this sense
Before appreciating a powerful brain in this we can say that the dharma of sugar is its
world, one should appreciate who has given sweetness, or the dharma of water is its ability
him this powerful brain. If the man has to quench our thirst with its pure taste.
attained that powerful brain out of his own Each of us has an essential nature, too, and if
accord, then great powerful brain like we live in harmony with our essential nature,
Professor Einstein, Sir Jagadish Chandra or dharma, we feel deeply satisfied. But as
Bose, they could create another brain like human beings, what is our dharma?
them so that in their absence there would not According to the timeless wisdom of the
have been scarcity of scientist and powerful Vedas, our dharma is a characteristic not of
brain. But they could not do that. Therefore our body but of our soul—the spark of divine
they are not creator of the powerful brain. The consciousness within. Each of us has this
powerful brain is gift of the supreme powerful spark within. It emanates from the Supreme
brain. Soul, Kåñëa, who may be likened to a cosmic
So in every respect, if we think... This is fire, the source of all the divine sparks that
called philosophy. If we have got thoughtful are our very selves.
propensities, if we can little think over every And the dharma of each spark of divine
matter, you will find that God is present consciousness is to dance in harmony around
everywhere, and still, He is personally present the central fire, Kåñëa, the original supreme
in His own place. The same example: the sun personality. We are all unique, individual, and
is present everywhere by heat and light; still, personal manifestations of Kåñëa, but our
sun, the sun, has its own location. That you dharma is to recognize our source, to
cannot deny. Similarly, God is present celebrate our eternal connection with Him
everywhere. Not only everywhere... We learn through loving service. In short, our dharma,
from Brahma-saàhitä, as eternally conscious selves, is to love and
eko ’py asau racayituà jagad-aëòa-koöià serve Kåñëa, the Supreme Personality of
yac-chaktir asti jagad-aëòa-cayä yad-antam Godhead.
aëòäntara-stha-paramäëu-cayäntara-sthaà In material consciousness we lose sight of our
govindam ädi-puruñaà tam ahaà bhajämi real nature. We forget our source and
[Bs. 5.35] connection with Kåñëa. And our original
This Govinda, anädir ädir govindaù [Bs. 5.1]. dharma of selfless service to Him transforms
So the prayer is, “I worship that Govinda,” into the false dharma of competitive
sarva-käraëa-käraëam, käraëa, “who is the selfishness. Because we lose touch with our
cause of all causes.” Cause of all causes. true dharma, we experience frustration and
Now, in this verse of Brahma-saàhitä we find dissatisfaction.
that one of His plenary portion... In the Vedic Dharma: The Way of Transcendence guides
hymns we find that God has become many. us back to our true nature, our original
Eko bahu çyäm. God is one without second, position as loving servants of Kåñëa.
but He has become Himself many. We are Another meaning of dharma is “duty.” In the
also God. Out of that many, we are one. We latter part of the twentieth century we’ve
are one. We are not separate from God. So, experimented with the abandonment of a
but there are amongst the “many”s there is a sense of duty and responsibility in favor of an
difference of potency, difference of potencies. ethic of self-gratification—“If it feels good,
Srila Prabhupada provides the philosophical At this point, a cynic may argue, "So what? abortion that you will hear
basis for such an approach with a beautiful Even if the soul exists, anywhere. Euphemistically, it will be termed
analogy. When a person accustomed to living is its existence going to solve my daily bread as
in darkness suddenly comes upon light, he is problem?" The Vedic "pregnancy termination (PT) by unwanted
likely to think that the darkness has produced scriptures explain that ignorance about the tissue removal". As
light. The truth however is exactly the soul has caused the bread the embryo interferes with enjoyment, it is
opposite. Light is the origin, the beginning problem and, in fact, all other problems. Let declared to be
and the absence of light is known as darkness. us see how. an "unwanted tissue" and is "removed".
So light is the source of darkness and not the Tomorrow man will
other way round. The universally accepted goal of life is the declare even his old parents as "unwanted
Similarly, the modern scientist is accustomed quest for happiness. tissue" and
to dwelling in the world of matter, studying When man is unaware of his actual identity as "remove" them also. And then his business
electrons, atoms, molecules, and other such a spiritual being, rivals, his
insentient nonliving things. And when he then, consciously or unconsciously, his co-inheritors of property... and who knows
stumbles upon life in a complicated conception of his own self where it
combination of matter, he automatically tends is a lump of chemicals which has "by chance" will stop, if at all it ever stops?
to think that life has come from matter. But come "alive". The quest
no one has been able to come up with even a for happiness then degenerates into a savage And at a global level, the unrestricted
theory to explain how life came from matter, struggle for carnal exploitation of the
leave alone replicate such a `lucky accident' enjoyment. Wealth, women and wine (www) environment by modern man in order to
in the laboratory! become the only goals of facilitate his sense
On the other hand, our practical experience life. Such a conception of life is individually enjoyment has brought the entire planet on
shows that an intelligent living person can frustrating, socially the brink of destruction.
easily create a variety of things; a carpenter disastrous and globally unsustainable. Ozone layer depletion, global warming,
creates a bureau, a civil engineer makes a extensive deforestation...
skyscraper, an automobile engineer produces The fundamental need of the individual is the list goes on and on
a Mercedes. There is absolutely no experience love; everyone wants to love
of the raw materials aligning by themselves and be loved. But "if I am just a lump of Thus the belief that man is a product of matter
into a useful product. Just imagine what chemicals and so is the other is a demoniac
would happen to the unemployment rate person, then what is the meaning of love conception, which is creating demoniac
worldwide if that happened! between two bags people. It leads to a
of chemicals?" In the modern times, love is a setting, wherein ethics, morality, selflessness,
The point is that it is far more logical, much-touted love all become
rational, reasonable and even scientific (used word, but what passes of as love is nothing utterly meaningless. Although the scientists,
in the broadest sense) to infer that the starting but bestial who teach such a
point of everything was a living person rather lust for sensuous gratification. Actual love is philosophy, may also feebly exhort us to "be
than a dead singularity. Lord Kelvin, one of selfless. good", but such an
the world's greatest physicist, has stated this So if the love between a young boy and a appeal falls on deaf ears. "If the goal of life is
same conclusion in these profound words, `If young girl is to enjoy and
you think deeply enough, you will be forced actually "divine and eternal", as they would I am here for who knows how long and there
by science to believe in God.' have us believe, why is no life after death,
DID MAN CREATE GOD? does that love disappear into thin air when the then why wait? Just enjoy. Beg, borrow, steal
Of course, it should be emphasized that the girl burns her face or even kill, but enjoy."
conception of God is not a `survival in an accident or the boy loses his wealth in a
mechanism' that the evolving man came up stock market crash? Dr Benito F Reyes has expressed the present
with to succeed in his struggle for existence. The harsh truth is that, in the material situation in blunt
The wonders of creation all around us bear conception of life, there can terms, "In rejecting the soul, humanity,
eloquent testimony for a superintelligent be no such thing as real love. People put up a science has committed
creator. Organs of extraordinary complexity facade of love as treason against humanity."
in our own body such as the eye and the brain long as they get some gratification from the
defy all reductionistic explanations. In other person. A cynic may argue at this point, "Would all
Darwin's own words, `To suppose that the eye When that stops, they dispose off their object problems disappear
could have been formed by evolution, seems, of love (?) just as just by accepting the soul?".
I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.' fast as they would dispose of a dysfunctional
The incredibly delicate ecological balance in TV. And in their heart The Vedic scripture state they would not arise
nature, the mind-boggling magnitude of the of hearts, people know that no one loves at all. When an
solar energy and thousands of similar them, no one cares for them. individual understands that the essence of his
fantastic facets of the world insist that there is Naturally they feel lonely, rejected, insecure being is spiritual
an intelligence behind them. (Refer to the and frustrated. This is and that the body is just an outer dress, he
previous issue A giant in a tiny package') In the root cause of stress, hypertension, seeks happiness, not
simple words, man did not create God; rather depression, addiction of at the material level, but at the spiritual level.
God created man and everything else. various types, delinquency and even suicide. Every soul is a
In this issue, we discussed how even beloved son of God and, just as a son gets
accepting that a big bang occurred, there is If there is any semblance of love still happiness by serving his
ample scientific room to consider that `God remaining in society, it is father, the soul gets happiness by serving
might have caused the big bang.' In only because of the culture coming from past God. In the loving care
subsequent issues, we will discuss whether generations. And the of his father, God, every individual
the big bang is actually a scientifically spreading of hedonistic ideas is destroying experiences the ultimate peace,
admissible theory at all and, even if it is, what even such vestiges the highest joy and the greatest fulfillment.
it requires to get from the big bang to where dreadfully fast. Since time immemorial, the
the universe is at present. Do join us as we epitome of selfless love And God being the universal father, a genuine
continue on a journey that expands the has been the love of a mother for her child. spiritualist sees all
frontiers of science and even goes beyond But modern values(?) living beings as his own brothers and loves
them. encourage mothers to murder their children them selflessly, truly.
even before they are born. An eternally cherished example of this is
Of course that is not the description of Jesus Christ, who lay down
his life just for the upliftment of his brethren. awareness. monkey arrive on time and the monkey sits
dutifully in front of the typewriter and starts
And for a spiritualist, nature is not an WHEN MONKEYS STARTED TYPING! typing (Thank goodness!) After 1 hour, what
insentient object meant to Typists all over the world, beware. Your jobs will you see? Some gibberish. Maybe 1 small
be exploited to the utmost. For him, nature is are in danger. You have competition….from word here or there. And at end of the day?
a loving mother, who monkeys. That’s what the scientists would Several pages of meaningless typed pages.
is providing him all that he needs. Thus he have us believe. At least those scientists who You may find a few meaningful words – but
uses the gifts of Mother advocate the chance theory. only with great difficulty. (It is after all too
Nature in the service of the Supreme Father much to expect the monkey to press a
with love, care and restraint. Chance is a popular word today in the world spacebar exactly after a meaningful word is
of science. And why not? It is the one- word completed!)
One of the smallest seeds has packaged answer to all the questions that scientists Day 2. Again the monkey sits down diligently
within it the biggest living always found very disconcerting. How did the and you sit behind him and he starts playing.
thing on earth - the giant sequoia tree. It incredibly vast universe with all its mind- Eight hours later, you are again looking at
grows over 300 feet high. boggling order come about? How did the several printed pages struggling to find even a
Four feet above the ground its diameter may atom with its intricate design come? Even the few meaningful words somewhere.
be 36 feet. One tree may tiniest cell is far more complex than the Day 10. “History repeats itself” You begin to
contain enough wood to build 50 six-room biggest factory on earth. How in the wide realize that whoever said that knew what he
houses. The two-foot-thick world did it come from simple starting was speaking about. The search for
bark is flavored with tannin that repels elements? Pat comes the reply to all these meaningful words in streams and streams of
insects, and its spongy, questions, with a triumphant smile, “Chance.” meaningless texts is getting on your nerves.
fibrous texture makes it as fireproof as Day 100. It is obvious to you by now that
asbestos. Its roots cover The Big Dogma what you are looking for is never to be found.
three or four acres. It lives over 3000 years. That there is absolutely no empiric evidence Whether it is day 10^0 or 10^2 or 10^1,000 or
for anything ever having come by chance 10^100000……00000…, it really doesn’t
Yet the seed that sequoia tree rains down by doesn’t really matter. In the religion of matter. The result of the monkey’ typing is
the millions are not science, there is one unspoken dogma which always going to be the same – nonsense. He
much bigger than a pinhead surrounded by practically everyone agrees upon: any theory, is not going to learn by experience!
tiny wings. A puny man no matter how coherent and systematic, is
standing at a sequoia's base can only gaze unacceptable and “unscientific” if it brings an Now let’s assume that the monkey starts
upward in silent awe at ultimate creator into the picture. And working in 24 hour shifts (We won’t ask you
its massive grandeur. Does it make sense to conversely, any theory, no matter how to supervise, don’t worry!) Still that is not
believe that the shaping improbable and untenable, is joyfully going to make any difference. A 24 hour shift
of the majestic giant and of the tiny seed that embraced if it helps in pushing God out. This is just like three 8-hour shifts with no break in
packages it was not scientific (?) mentality is typified by the between. So just as three 8-hour shifts don’t
by design? following statement of William Bonner (pg give any fruitful results, one 24-hour shift
119, Mystery of Expanding Universe), “It is will similarly bear no fruit. And just as 8-hour
Let us see what leading scientists say on the business of science to offer rational shifts repeated 10^1000….. times don’t lead
observing such amazing explanations for all events in the real world, to any coherent text, neither will 24 hour
creations in nature: and any scientist who calls on God to explain shifts repeated 10^1000….. times.
something is failing in his job. This is one
Famed British scientist Sir James Jean says, piece of dogmatism that a scientist can allow The point is that the probability of a monkey
"Today there is a wide himself.” typing out all the works of Shakespeare, if
measure of agreement that the stream of given millions of years, is not an
knowledge is heading towards No wonder then that the chance theory has infinitesimally small number; it is zero. No
a non-mechanical reality. The universe begins found many adherents in spite of the absence matter how many millions, billion,
to look more like a of even scanty evidence. For a mind quadrillions or whatever number of years are
great thought than a great machine" programmed since birth to think in a given to the monkey (assuming he lives that
mechanistic (read ‘atheistic’) way, chance is a long!), still the probability always remains
Lord Kelvin, one of the world's greatest far more comforting word to hear than God as zero.
physicists, has made the the ultimate causative principle.
following thought provoking statement: "If Thus even in principle randomness does not
you think strongly enough, The monkey business produce order on any appreciable scale,
you will be forced by science to believe in Now let us consider whether the chance irrespective of the time given.
God." theory is possible leave even in principle. In
the words of the eighteenth century atheistic Simple common sense, isn’t it? But “common
Nobel-prize-winning physicist Robert A. philosophers Denis Diderot & David Hume: sense is not so common”, especially in Kali
Millikan, said at a meeting Given infinite time, nature would by chance Yuga and especially in the scientific
of the American Physical Society: "There is a alone eventually hit on the order that we see community.
Divinity that shapes around us. A modern version of this theory
our ends...A purely materialistic philosophy is takes the form of an analogy (first introduced So typists, sorry for the false alarm. But don’t
to me the height of by the famous Eddington): A monkey, if blame us; we didn’t set it on; rather we are
unintelligence. Wise men in all the ages have given infinite time, can by itself type the setting it off.
always seen enough to works of Shakespeare. To gullible minds
at least make them reverent." trained to worship scientists as “the The Small Bang Construction Company
champions of truth”, this analogy appears An entrepreneur got really excited when he
The duty of a true scientist, therefore, is not to plausible. And since the time scale involved first heard about the big bang theory. The
dogmatically deny makes it impossible to verify empirically, the very next day he inaugurated his own
and defy God, but to appreciate His chance theory has assumed the status of an construction company, ‘The Small Bang
inconceivable brain, understand infallible truth. Construction Company.’ His only
Him & His plan for the creation & cooperate infrastructure – rods of dynamite. His mission
with Him. Last, but not Let’s do some simple common sense analysis statement: “Just as a big bang constructed the
the least, a true scientist should also explain of the monkey’s typing adventures. Suppose whole universe, I will, by small bangs,
all these metaphysical that you are told to supervise the monkey and construct small houses.” His business soon
realities of life to the masses, thus creating a suppose you and the monkey are told to work went bankrupt. Don’t you think that the big
worldwide spiritual in 8-hour shifts. Day 1. Both you and the bang theorists should pay for it? Poor fellow.
After all, his only fault is that he believed the
big bangers. Little did he know that his bank
account would also experience a big bang
because of his faith in the big bang!
If chance, why copyrights?
When Srila Prabhupada was told that the
French scien
tist Dr J Monod won the Nobel Prize in 1965
for his theory that everything came by
chance, he at once challenged, “If everything
came by chance, then even his theory came
by chance! Then what is his credit?” If
everything has come by chance, why do
scientists copyright their theories. Everything
has come by chance, except, of course, their
theories! A remarkably self-serving theory, to
say the very least!

Goodbye, Mr Chance.
Nothing comes by chance; even the chance
theory doesn’t come by chance. Everything,
especially everything well-organized, has an
intelligent designer behind it. So the huge
universe and all things in it necessitate a
super-intelligent designer.

So Mr Chance, Goodbye. There is no chance