Human intelligence's highest purpose is understanding God, not wasting life pursuing eating, sleeping, and sense gratification.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — April 20, 1973, Los Angeles 730420MW-LOS ANGELES [47:18 Minutes] Walk_730420MW-LOS ANGELES Devotee: [introducing recording] Prabhupāda, morning walk, Los Angeles, April 20th, 1973.
Prabhupāda: Does it mean the sand is begetting the insects? Svarūpa Dāmodara: No.
Prabhupāda: So their conclusion is like that. Because they see that the insects are coming from the sand, so from matter, this life is coming. This is their logic. It is called, in Sanskrit, taṇḍula-vṛścika-nyāya.
Everything is discussed. Taṇḍula-vṛścika-nyāya. You know taṇḍula-vṛścika-nyāya? Svarūpa Dāmodara: No.
Prabhupāda: Taṇḍula means rice. Svarūpa Dāmodara: Rice?
Prabhupāda: Rice. And vṛścika means scorpion. The scorpion enter within the heaps of rice and lay their eggs. And by heat of the rice, they..., anothers baby vṛścika come out.
And when they're coming out of the, that taṇḍula, rice, the rascals are thinking that the rice is begetting the vṛścika. They do not know the inner secrecy that another vṛścika, scorpion, has laid down the eggs within the rice, and by the fermentation of the heat of the rice, the eggs are fructified and the living entity's coming out. Taṇḍula-vṛścika-nyāya. [pause] Svarūpa Dāmodara: Ah.