8 Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers

chemicals was required?

BOB: How much?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: Yes. How many tons?

BOB: Many!

SRILA PRABHUPADA: So who supplied it?

BOB: This was supplied by God.

SRILA PRABHUPADA: Somebody must have supplied it.
BOB: Yes.

SRILA PRABHUPADA: So that is science. You can teach like
that.

BOB: Should one bother teaching that if you combine acid
and alkaline they form a neutral?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: The same thing. There are so many
effervescents. So, who is performing it? Who is supplying
the acid and alkaline? [There is a long pause.]

BOB: So this comes from the same source as the water.
SRILA PRABHUPADA: Yes. You cannot manufacture water
unless you have hydrogen and oxygen. So, here is a vast—
not only this Atlantic or Pacific: there are millions of plan-
ets, and there are millions of Atlantic and Pacific oceans. So
who created this water with hydrogen and oxygen, and
how was it supplied? That is our question. Somebody must
have supplied it, otherwise how has it come into existence?
BOB: But should it also be taught how you make water from
hydrogen and oxygen? The procedure of burning them
together—should this also be taught? That is, you burn hy-
drogen and oxygen together . . .

SRILA PRABHUPADA: That is secondary. That is not very
difficult. Just like Malati made this puri [a kind of bread].
So, there is flour, and there is ghee [clarified butter], and
she made a puri. But unless there is ghee and flour, where is
the chance of making a puri? In the Bhagavad-gita there is
