The Seventh Morning Walk: May 8, 1973
Recorded on May 8, 1973, On the shores of the Pacific Ocean Near Los Angeles
Śrīla Prabhupāda  is accompanied by  Dr. Singh and other students .
The Cheaters and the Cheateddi
Śrīla Prabhupāda.  Natural phenomena such as the law of gravity or weightlessness are  acintya-śakti , inconceivable energies, and real science means to understand this  acintya-śakti . To observe a chain of events only from a certain point in time is unscientific and gives only incomplete knowledge. We must know where things  begin . If we carry our investigation far enough, we will find that the origin of nature is  acintya-śakti . For example, with brain, brush and color we can paint a flower. But we cannot conceive how vegetation throughout the whole earth is automatically growing and fructifying. We can explain the painted flower, but we cannot explain the real flower. Scientists actually cannot explain biological growth. They simply juggle words like  molecule  and  chromosome , but they cannot actually explain the phenomena.
The essential fault of the so-called scientists is that they have adopted the inductive process to arrive at their conclusions. For example, if a scientist wants to determine by the inductive process whether or not man is mortal, he must study every man to try to discover if some or one of them may be immortal. The scientist says, "I cannot accept the proposition that all men are mortal. There may be some men who are immortal. I have not yet seen every man. Therefore how can I accept that man is mortal?" This is called the inductive process. And the deductive process means that your father, your teacher or your  guru  says that man is mortal, and you accept it.
Dr. Singh.  So there is an ascending process of gaining knowledge and a descending process?[7]
Śrīla Prabhupāda.  Yes. The ascending process will never be successful, because it relies on the information gathered through the senses, and the senses are imperfect. So we accept the descending process.
God cannot be known by the inductive process. Therefore He is called  adhokṣaja , which means "unknowable by direct perception." The scientists say there is no God because they are trying to understand Him by direct perception. But He is  adhokṣaja ! Therefore, the scientists are ignorant of God because they are missing the method of knowing Him. In order to understand transcendental science, one must approach a bona fide spiritual master, hear from him submissively and render service to him. Lord Kṛṣṇa explains that in the  Bhagavad-gītā  (4.34):  tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśnena sevayā .
My Guru Mahārāja[8] once said, "The modern world is a society of the cheaters and the cheated." Unfortunately, the cheated are eulogizing the cheaters, and the small cheaters are worshiping the great cheaters. Suppose a flock of asses comes and eulogizes me, saying, "Oh, you are Jagad-guru."[9] What is the value of their praise? But if a gentleman or learned man gives praise, his words have some value. Generally, however, the persons who are praising and