Kṛṣṇa, the All-Attractive
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ŚYĀMASUNDARA:  Taste, pleasure.
BOB:  OK.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Pleasing taste. So the  Vedas  say,  raso vai saḥ . The exact translation of mellow is  rasa . [ Mālatī ,  Śyāmasundara's wife, enters with a tray of food. ] What is that?  MĀLATĪ:  Eggplant, fried.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Oh! All-attractive! All-attractive! [ Laughter. ]
ŚYĀMASUNDARA:  How is Kṛṣṇa the greatest scientist?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Because He knows everything. A scientist is one who knows a subject matter thoroughly. He is a scientist. Kṛṣṇa—He knows everything.
BOB:  I am presently a science teacher.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Yes, teaching. But, unless you have perfect knowledge, how can you teach? That is our question.
BOB:  Without perfect knowledge, though, you can teach—
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  That is cheating; that is not teaching. That is cheating. Just like the scientists say, “There was a chunk . . . and the creation took place. Perhaps. Maybe . . .” What is this? Simply cheating! It is not teaching; it is cheating.
BOB:  Let me repeat what you said this morning—that was interesting. I asked about miracles, and you said that only a fool would believe in miracles because—let us say you are a child and an adult lifts this table. That’s a miracle. Or you’re a chemist and you combine acid and base and you make smoke, an explosion or whatever. To somebody ignorant, that’s a miracle. But for everything there is a process, and so when you see a miracle, it’s just ignorance of the process. So that only a fool would believe in miracles, and—you correct me if I say wrong . . .