All philosophies denying God's supremacy are rascaldom; only acceptance of divine authority brings coherent knowledge.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — December 15, 1973, Los Angeles 731215MW-LOS ANGELES [50:10 Minutes] Walk_731215MW-LOS ANGELES Svarūpa Dāmodara: The sky is quite clear.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Can you change it? Can you change it? Svarūpa Dāmodara: No.
Prabhupāda: Then what kind of scientist you are? Svarūpa Dāmodara: A rascal scientist. [Prabhupāda laughs] Candanācārya: Śrīla Prabhupāda, may I put a question?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Candanācārya: Yesterday I made the acquaintance of a theologist, a professor from the University of Montreal. He said that the Roman Catholic presentation of Christianity is that God came to share the suffering of man.
Prabhupāda: That is another rascaldom. Why God should share the sufferings of man? Candanācārya: I asked him this, and he said, "So that man would accept more as reality, suffering." Prabhupāda: Very good theologician. A rascal number one.
You are trying for becoming happy, and his theory is that man will accept suffering. You see? The very proposition is rascaldom. Everyone is trying for to become happy.
That is progress. Ātyantika. In Sanskrit it is called ātyantika-duḥkha-nivṛttiḥ. There is suffering, and our struggle for existence means to, I mean to say, mitigate the suffering, to minimize or to make it nil. That is our struggle.