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Bhaktivedanta Institute Journal Proposed, Scientists Who Deny God Must Be Challenged

📅 July 7, 1976 📍 Baltimore ⏱ 18 min
True science means questioning why endless problems arise, not creating substitutes for temporary solutions.
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Prabhupāda: ...baḍa baḍa pet, laṅkā diṅgāite māthā kare heṭṭ. It was translated by a Mr. Row, a professor in the Presidency College, he translated, "Big, big monkey, big, big belly, Ceylon jumping, melancholy." When the problems of life is read, then they are melancholy, all these big, big scientists. Ceylon jumping melancholy.

Hanumān, one monkey, he jumped over the Ceylon. So other monkeys also, they were very much proud that a monkey jumped over the ocean. And as soon as he was challenged, "Can you jump over?" melancholy. Ceylon jumping melancholy.

Big, big monkey, big, big belly. These are the translation by Mr. Rowe, a professor of English in Presidency College. So what is the proposal now? Svarūpa Dāmodara: We want to discuss about the journal that we are proposing to have from the Institute.

[aside: Where is Rūpānuga?] Rūpānuga: So Ravīndra-svarūpa Prabhu is going to be the editor, you approved in Māyāpur. We were thinking if you could give us some idea for a title. Because we were thinking so far is that we would have a subtitle, like we have "Back to Godhead" then we have "the Magazine of the Hare Kṛṣṇa Movement." So we would have the subtitle, "Bhaktivedanta Institute" or "Journal of the Bhaktivedanta Institute," but maybe you would like to have a title of the journal. So we wanted to know if you had some hint.

Prabhupāda: Yes. You can title, entitle, Sa-vijñāna. Svarūpa Dāmodara: Sa-vijñāna?

Prabhupāda: Jñānaṁ me paramaṁ guhyaṁ yad vijñāna-samanvitam [SB 2.9.31]. What is that Bhagavad-gītā verse? Jñānaṁ te 'haṁ pravakṣyāmi tad vijñānam... Pradyumna: jñānaṁ te 'haṁ sa-vijñānam idaṁ vakṣyāmy aśeṣataḥ yaj jñātvā neha bhūyo 'nyaj jñātavyam avaśiṣyate [Bg 7.2] Prabhupāda: Yes.

Rūpānuga: That is good, Śrīla Prabhupāda. That is a very nice title. Svarūpa Dāmodara: What about a subtitle? Pradyumna: "I shall now declare unto you in full this knowledge, both phenomenal and noumenal, by knowing which there shall remain nothing further to be known." Prabhupāda: Yes.

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