Text 56] Hiranyakasipu, King of the Demons 119

however, in the guise of a small boy, has already explained that although
his mother left him uncared for and wandering in the forest, the tigers
and other ferocious animals had not eaten him. The real fact is that if the
Supreme Personality of Godhead protects one, even though one be
motherless and fatherless, one can be maintained by the good will of the
Lord. Otherwise, if the Supreme Lord does not give one protection, one
must suffer in spite of the presence of his father and mother. Another
example is that sometimes a patient dies in spite of a good physician and
good medicine. Thus without the protection of the Lord one cannot live,
with or without parents.

Another point in this verse is that fathers and mothers have protective
feelings for their children even in bird and beast society, not to speak of
human society. Kali-yuga, however, is so degraded that a father and
mother even kill their children in the womb on the plea of their scientific
knowledge that within the womb the child has no life. Prestigious medi-
cal practitioners give this opinion, and therefore the father and mother
of this day kill their children within the womb. How degraded human
society has become! Their scientific knowledge is so advanced that they
think that within the egg and the embryo there is no life. Now these so-
called scientists are receiving Nobel Prizes for advancing the theory of
chemical evolution. But if chemical combinations are the source of life,
why don’t the scientists manufacture something like an egg through
chemistry and put it in an incubator so that a chicken will come out?
What is their answer? With their scientific knowledge they are unable to
create even an egg. Such scientists are described in Bhagavad-gita as
mayayapahrta-jfidnah, fools whose real knowledge has been taken
away. They are not men of knowledge, but they pose as scientists and
philosophers, although their so-called theoretical knowledge cannot pro-
duce practical results.

TEXT 56
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PrahimESy |
aad Mafia: TU
frog amasfeat facta: 14S
