True advancement means developing consciousness for liberation, not merely trading bullock carts for motor cars.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — October 7, 1972, Berkeley 721007MW-BERKELEY [42:39 Minutes] Walk_721007MW-BERKELEY [Car door closing] Jayatīrtha: Hour… on the hour or so.
Prabhupāda: Eh? Jayatīrtha: There are flights leaving for San Francisco every hour on the hour. Svarūpa Dāmodara: It’s about 40 minutes from here? Jayatīrtha: Yes, 45 minutes.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Śrīla Prabhupāda during the solar or lunar eclipse we observe fasting and then rituals. So what is the… Real significance meaning?
Prabhupāda: We take all of these arrangements for remembering God. So, fasting means during the eclipse period maybe the food becomes polluted so better not to be eaten. It is to be understood that it becomes polluted. What your science says?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Science won’t say anything. Science would just completely neglect because it’s just a settle[?] of the.. Because it just so happens that when you let in motions of these planetary systems it just so happened that they are in the same line, by chance. So it is just settle[?].
So they just completely neglect any significance. Jayatīrtha: [indistinct] of the statement that there is only one guru and that guru is coming in many different forms. I don’t quite understand it.
Prabhupāda: One guru is Kṛṣṇa and many representatives coming. One business house but there are many salesmen. Jayatīrtha: Oh. Svarūpa Dāmodara: They are expansions of Kṛṣṇa. Prabhupāda: Yes. [Chanting japa]… The system is how to give the living entities liberation from this material bondage that is the objective but the modern so-called scientific world they do not know what is the meaning.