Labor without devotion yields only tiresome dust; bhakti alone brings genuine success and liberation.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: This is also inhabitable. Where you are going? Take it in writing. Hari-śauri: Now they are putting out the same kind of propaganda about Mars that formerly they were putting out about the moon—that there may be life—so that they can use that as an excuse to go. I just read a little bit where they say that due to information sent back by the last spaceship that they sent to Mars, now they think that there's more water vapor in the atmosphere than they at first thought.
So that means that there's a good possibility that there may be some bacterial life on Mars. So [laughs] they don't... And then they state that the temperature ranges from -130 to +40 degrees Fahrenheit. So that means that there could be life there in bacteria form. Prabhupāda: And why there is no life in moon planet?
Some scientists say the temperature is two hundred degrees less than the zero. Hari-śauri: Yes, at night when they said..., because there's no atmosphere. Prabhupāda: But why these rascals say it is full of dust? And how from the dust so much light is coming, illuminating the whole universe? What is their logic? They have already brought the dust.
That dust does not illuminate. Hari-śauri: Well, they say just like when the sunlight hits the earth, then the earth appears very bright from outer space. It appears very illuminating.
Prabhupāda: Who says? Hari-śauri: This is the scientists' excuse. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: They showed some pictures. Hari-śauri: They showed some pictures taken from outer space that shows the earth glowing very brightly, like the moon.
Prabhupāda: Why the glow of the surface of the globe, earth, does not illuminate? It does not come between illumination? Hari-śauri: Just like when the sun is here, everything is bright.
Prabhupāda: That's all right, when the sun is there. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: That's interesting. The moon is actually illuminating.