Without devotion to God, all claims of morality, knowledge, and virtue are merely shadows cast by insane speculation.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — April 25, 1973, Los Angeles 730425MW-LOS ANGELES [50:41 Minutes] Walk_730425MW-LOS ANGELES Svarūpa Dāmodara: So they'll say, that, some scientists, that that science deals with the matter, or the physical matter, and so they try to...
Prabhupāda: No, physical matter, wherefrom the physical matter comes? Unless you come to that point, you are not a scientist. Wherefrom the matter comes? Svarūpa Dāmodara: Sometime..., sometimes they try to relate science and the religion, some scientists, and they make a differentiation.
Prabhupāda: No, religion... When you come to the real cause of everything, then you come to religion. Religion is the science of sciences. Because you are trying to find out the original cause, and as soon you come to the original cause, He is God, original cause.
So as soon as you come to God, then there is religion. Svarūpa Dāmodara: And that, that definition of differentiation is that they say religion deals with the value of life, the moral and ethics. And on the other hand...
Prabhupāda: Religion, religion is the source of moral and ethics. Because religion means to come to the perfectional point. So as soon as there is perfection, moral and ethics are already there. So-called moral ethics, that is artificial.
Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ [SB 5.18.12]. If one is not a devotee of the Lord, his morality has no value. That is artificial. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ.
Mahad-guṇāḥ, high qualities, moral, ethics, they are high qualities. So Bhāgavata says that unless one is devotee of God, he cannot have high qualities. That is artificial. Svarūpa Dāmodara: So without God consciousness, there's no question of morality.