Without spiritual nourishment, the human soul cannot truly live, though material systems may try to deny this eternal truth.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation with Mr. & Mrs. James Williams [at Bhaktivedanta Manor] — July 23, 1973, London 730723R2-LONDON [114:50 Minutes] Conv_730723R2-LONDON Mr. Williams: We were there last year, and I was there before, also.
Prabhupāda: Ah. Mr. Williams: It is an interesting place, isn't it? But there are… Prabhupāda: There are big, big professors, but they said that there is no life after death.
Mr. Williams: Yes. They have no religion. On the whole they have no religion.
Prabhupāda: No, apart from religion, this is science. When you speak that there is soul and the soul transmigrates from one body to another, it has nothing to do with religion. It is a fact; it is a science. But people do not know it.
Mr. Williams: Yes, that is so true. Last year when we were in Russia we went to many monasteries, and the monasteries are attended by a large number of people.
Prabhupāda: Hmm. Mr. Williams: And I was there before, in 1956. There were..., one church, thirteen people went into the church on a Sunday.
Prabhupāda: Hmm. Mr. Williams: But now the churches are full—not all of them, many are closed—but they have opened some of the churches again. Prabhupāda: Ah. Mr. Williams: And in the monasteries, both outside Moscow, Zagorsk, and outside Leningrad, there were monasteries of an enormous size.