The Eleventh Morning Walk: May 15, 1973
Recorded on May 15, 1973, In Cheviot Hills Park, Los Angeles
Śrīla Prabhupāda is accompanied by Dr. Singh and other students.
Detecting the Spirit Sould
Dr. Singh.  Scientists find it very hard to see the spirit soul. They say its existence is very doubtful.
Śrīla Prabhupāda . How can they see it? It is too small to see. Who has that seeing power?
Dr. Singh.  Still, they want to sense it by some means.
Śrīla Prabhupāda.  if you inject someone with just one hundredth of a grain of very venomous poison, he dies immediately. No one can see the poison or how it acts, but it is acting nevertheless. So why don't the scientists see the soul by its action? In such cases we have to see by the effect. The  Vedas  say that because of the minute particle called the soul, the whole body is working nicely. If I pinch myself, I immediately feel it because I am conscious throughout the whole of my skin. But as soon as the soul is out of my body, which is the case when my body dies, you can take the same skin and cut and chop it, and nobody will protest. Why is this simple thing so hard to understand? Is this not detecting spirit?
Dr. Singh.  We may detect the soul in this way, but what about God?
Śrīla Prabhupāda.  First of all let us understand the soul. The soul is a sample God. If you can understand the sample, then you can understand the whole.
Modern Science: Help or Harm?? or Harm??
Dr. Singh , Scientists are in the process of trying to create life..
Śrīla Prabhupāda.  "Process of"! "Trying to"! That we kick out; that we do not accept. A beggar is saying, "I am trying to be a millionaire." We say, "When you become a millionaire, then talk. Now you are a poor beggar; that is all." The scientists say they are trying, but suppose I ask you, "What are you?" Will you say, "I am trying to be..."? What are you now? That is the question. "We are trying" is not a proper answer, what to speak of a scientific proposition.
Dr. Singh.  Well, although they haven't been able to create life so far, they say that soon they should be able to do so.
Śrīla Prabhupāda.  Any rascal may say that. If you say, "In the future I shall be able to do something extraordinary," why should I trust or believe you?
Dr. Singh.  Well, the scientists say they have done so much in the past and they will accomplish more in the future.
Śrīla Prabhupāda.  In the past there was death, and people are dying now. So what have the scientists done?
Dr. Singh.  Helped them...