God's Greatness Beyond Human Control, True Guru Never Cheats Disciples

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Devotee (1): ...shortage of rain, then we have to make some scientific solution, that to say God is acting, God is not acting, that is not practical. We must make some solution, like irrigation or...

Prabhupāda: Hm. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: God helps those who help themselves.

Prabhupāda: No, no, don't bring slogans now. Now answer his question. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Well, people are falsely thinking themselves to be independent of God.

Prabhupāda: No, what is his question, try to understand first of all. The question is intelligent. Hari-śauri: Actually, it's not a fact that by relying on science one can solve one's problems when you are dealing with...

Prabhupāda: No, what they have solved? What they have solved first of all. Hari-śauri: They haven't solved anything.

Prabhupāda: Then? Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: It's just like, say here's a field, and it's full of woods, so a farmer comes and he cuts down the trees and then he plants grain, and then it comes up as wheat. So he'll say, "Well, God did not do it; I did it." So his proposal is that under such circumstances, how is the idea of God practical? Prabhupāda: So then practical is if God would not have given you this land, then where is scheme of tilling it? Can you till in the sky, in the air?

So who has given you the land? Hmm? You are very practical, but where you get the...? Can you manufacture this land?

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