Scientists mistake effects for causes; real authority is Krishna, not endless revolutions.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — December 13, 1973, Los Angeles 731213MW-LOS ANGELES [64:28 Minutes] Walk_731213MW-LOS ANGELES [in car] Prabhupāda: ...is contamination. Just like when a person is diseased, you find so many extra chemicals in his body. So a diseased person produces such chemicals, not that chemicals are the agents for his life. Try to understand.
When a living entity is pure, when he becomes impure, these chemicals are produced out of him. Exactly the same thing: just like when a man becomes contaminated, infected with some disease, you will find so many extra things, germs and chemicals, in his body. So these extra chemicals, germs, are not responsible for his living condition. Because he is living and because in a awkward condition, therefore these things have been produced by him.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: But how about the normal chemicals, which are...
Prabhupāda: Normal chemicals must be. They're of the whole world... The material world is made of chemicals. So wherever you go and see, the chemicals in different, what is called, element, they are present.
You cannot see, but chemicals... Because you have no eyes to see the soul, so you simply see the chemicals which is produced by the soul. Svarūpa Dāmodara: But sometimes these chemicals...
Prabhupāda: Just like anything you keep for some time, when it is decomposed, you find so many chemicals, extra. So now they are mistaking. The chemicals are not... They are effects; they are not cause.
When a thing is decomposed, you'll find so many extra chemicals. Our point is that because a thing is decomposed, so many chemicals come out, not that on account of these chemicals it has given... A dead body. A dead body—not that because the chemicals have come, therefore he is dead.