The Tiny World of Modern Science
During a morning walk in April of 1973, at Venice Beach, Los Angeles, Srila
Prabhupdda discusses modern science and its high priests: “They claim to
have millions of dollars worth of knowledge, but if you ask them a question,
they simply give you a postdated check. Why should we accept it ? They cannot
even produce a spear of grass through their biological or chemical experi-
ments. Nonetheless, they are claiming that the creation is produced by some
chemical or biological method. Why does no one question all this nonsense?”

Srila Prabhupada: The whole world of science and technology is run-
ning on the false idea that life is born from matter. We cannot allow this
nonsensical theory to go unchallenged. Life does not come from matter.
Matter is generated from life. This is not theory; it is fact. Science is
based on an incorrect theory; therefore all its calculations and conclu-
sions are wrong, and people are suffering because of this. When all these
mistaken modern scientific theories are corrected, people will become
happy. So we must challenge the scientists and defeat them. Otherwise
they will mislead the entire society.

Matter changes in six phases: birth, growth, maintenance, production
of by-products, dwindling, and death. But the life within matter, the
spirit soul, is eternal; it goes through no such changes. Life appears to be
developing and decaying, but actually it is simply passing through each of
these six phases until the material body can no longer be maintained.
Then the old body dies, and the soul enters a new body. When our
clothing is old and worn, we change it. Similarly, one day our bodies be-
come old and useless, and we pass on to a new body.

As Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gitd [2.13], dehino ‘smin yathd dehe
kaumaram yauvanam jara/ tatha dehantara-praptih: ‘‘As the embodied
soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age,
the soul similarly passes into another body at death.”’ And a little later
[2.18]: antavanta ime dehd nityasyoktah Saririnah. This means that only
the material body of the indestructible and eternal entity is subject to
destruction. This material body is perishable, but the life within the body
is nitya, eternal.

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