Śrīla Prabhupāda.  You may talk about  your  experience, and I may talk about  my  experience. But why should I accept your experience? You may be a fool, so why should I also become a fool? You may be a frog, but suppose I am a whale. Why should I take your well as all in all? You have your method of acquiring scientific knowledge, and I have mine.
Dr. Singh.  Because the scientists haven't detected any water on the surface of the moon, they've concluded that no life could survive there.
Śrīla Prabhupāda.  They haven't seen the whole surface of the moon. Suppose someone were to come here from another planet, drop into the Arabian Desert and then return home. Could he come to a complete conclusion about the nature of the whole earth? His knowledge would not be complete.
Karandhara.  They have a device that senses water. They say they've had it orbit the moon, and they've concluded that the moon has no water and therefore no life.
Śrīla Prabhupāda.  Even if, as on the sun, there is apparently no water, still there are living entities there. How does a cactus grow in the desert, apparently without water?
Karandhara.  It gets water from the atmosphere..
Śrīla Prabhupāda.  Yes, because the atmosphere contains all the elements needed to sustain life: earth, water, fire, air and ether. In  anything  material, all these elements are present. For example, in my body there is water, although you cannot see it. Similarly, you don't see fire in my body, yet my body is warm. Where does this warmth come from? You don't see any fire. Do you see any fire burning in my body? Then where does the warmth come from? What is the answer?
The Universe in the Atomm
Śrīla Prabhupāda.  All matter is a combination of five gross elements (earth, water, fire, air and ether) and three subtle elements (mind, intelligence and false ego).
Karandhara.  According to the Vedic science, material energy begins with the false ego and then develops into the intelligence, then the mind and then the gross elements-ether, air, fire and so on. So the same basic ingredients are present in all matter. Is this right?
Śrīla Prabhupāda.  Yes. The creation of the material universe is like the growth of a great banyan tree[3] from a tiny seed. No one can see the tree within the seed, but all the necessary ingredients for the tree are there, including the required intelligence. Actually, everyone's body is simply a sample universe. Your body and my body are different universes, small universes. Therefore, all eight material elements are present within our bodies, just as they are within the whole universe. Similarly, an insect's body is another universe.
Karandhara.  How about the atom??
Śrīla Prabhupāda.  The same formula applies: all these constituents are within the atom.  Aṇor aṇīyān mahato mahīyān  ( Kaṭha Upaniṣad  1.2.20). This means that whether something is extremely large or infinitesimal, it is still made of the same basic elements. This is true everywhere in the material world. Just as a woman's small watch has all the requisite machinery for its smooth functioning, so an ant has all the necessary brain substance to manage its affairs nicely. How is this possible? To answer this properly, you must minutely examine the brain tissues in the ant. But this you cannot do. Moreover, there are  innumerable