Spiritual knowledge alone cures addiction and suffering that material science cannot solve.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — June 11, 1975, Honolulu 750611MW-HONOLULU [23:40 Minutes] Walk_750611MW-HONOLULU [in car] Prabhupāda: [talking with Manasvī in Bengali about different types of ḍāl] [break] Siddha-svarūpa: ...experiments that these... I know of the experiments that these men are doing. They're connected... They have gone to the Buddhists.
They've gone to Buddhist monks and various people that are into voidism, and they've made these tests, and it comes out that there's no activity. So they're seeing this as being the goal. They're trying to see if the same perfection, result of perfection, is achieved by the chanting. They already have a preconceived notion of what perfection is, and if they're testing to see if...
Prabhupāda: To that standard. Siddha-svarūpa: Yeah, if we're up to that standard of perfection of the Buddhist monks or the Zen monks or transcendental meditators or whatever. So I think it's a very bad thing to take part in that thing.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Siddha-svarūpa: Because they'll simply try to... Anyway, it's... [break] Sometimes because these people have big titles like "psychologist" or "professor," and they have many machines and authoritative-looking instruments, we become deceived into thinking that they are authorities of some sort, and we let them dictate to us.
Prabhupāda: ...do not study that why these devotees have given up intoxication, which the government failed to stop? Siddha-svarūpa: Yes. Prabhupāda: It is practical. Siddha-svarūpa: Yeah, it's an easy enough thing to study. Prabhupāda: Huh? Siddha-svarūpa: It's an easy thing to study. Simple. Prabhupāda: Why these devotee, they have given up intoxication? Apart from other items, the government, especially in USA, they are spending millions of dollars to stop this intoxication, LSD.
So why they have failed? And why Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement has become successful? What is the psychology? Siddha-svarūpa: It seems that these people don't know how to be simple. Prabhupāda: Well, they have no spiritual information. That is the...
Therefore the first education is to understand what is spirit. Then spiritual knowledge is... They do not know what is spirit. [break] ...imāni bhūtāni bhavanti. That is spirit, the original source of everything.