Understanding the eternal soul's transmigration is scientific fact, not sectarian belief, and the basis for genuine spiritual advancement.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation with Professor Olivier, Rector, University of Durban, Westville — October 10, 1975, Durban 751010R1-DURBAN [101:19 Minutes] Conv_751010R1-DURBAN Prof. Olivier: Well, we didn't get the... We didn't get time to discuss some of the...
Prabhupāda: Yes. Prof. Olivier: ...the points that you raised, and I came in in the middle of a discourse.
Prabhupāda: I do not know who were those gentlemen. They are your teaching staff, that Mr. Chadda and others? They were introduced as Ārya-samājīs.
They belong to the teaching staff, no? Prof. Olivier: No. The Ārya-paṭha-nīti-sabhā, which is an organization which was started about a hundred years ago by Swami Dayananda in India, with a motto of bhavantu viśvam āryam: "Let us make all men noble through search after truth," and that started in South Africa about fifty years ago.
And one of the leading gentlemen in the organization today was the one sitting on the extreme left-hand side, Mr. Chautari. They are celebrating their fiftieth anniversary here in South Africa with a week's program, and they invited these two ācāryas over from India. One is from Delhi.
I don't know where the other one is from. They invited them over to grace their celebrations. So they have been having a week of celebrations starting in the City Hall last Sunday.
Prabhupāda: This Sunday? Prof. Olivier: The Sunday that's just passed, yes. They started then.