660829 Lecture - Srila Prabhupada Speaks a Nectar Drop in New York
| Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada |
| "To conquer over the death, that was the main problem in . . . at least in the former Vedic civilization days. Everyone, any highly situated person in knowledge, his main business was how to conquer death. Now, at the present moment that question has become subordinate, how to conquer death. "Let death there be. So long death does not come, let me enjoy and have sense gratification." That has become the standard of civilization at the present moment. But real problem is how to conquer death. They think . . . the scientists say: "Oh, death is . . . death cannot be conquered. Set aside. Set aside. Now let us prepare something, atomic bomb, so that death can be accelerated." This is scientific advancement. Death is there, and the problem . . . formerly, people used to think of how conquering death, but at the present moment they are thinking accelerating death, and they call it advancement of knowledge." |
| 660829 - Lecture BG 05.14-22 - New York |