Money alone determines status in Kali-yuga; truth requires shelter in authentic scripture, not flawed science.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Ātreya Ṛṣi: If there are planets, Śrīla Prabhupāda, like the sun planet, where... Prabhupāda: We get information from the śāstra, every planet is full of life. Atreya Ṛṣi: Yes, that there is life in other, some planets. Prabhupāda: Janā-kīrṇa, this very word is used, Janā-kīrṇa, "congested with life." And we have got description, this loka, this loka, this loka is fighting sometimes with other loka, or that... Everything is description there. There is milk ocean, there is this ocean, that ocean, varieties of. So if we have to take these rascals' version—they're simply rogues—then the whole śāstra becomes false. Ātreya Ṛṣi: The point in the śāstra is that every... Prabhupāda: And they will advertise that these descriptions in the śāstras, they are all mythology.
Of course, this kind of bluffing cannot go, because suppose this Mars expedition becomes a failure, like that, the same... It will be failure. So next time, if they propose, I think people will be hesitant to allow them to go. Simply bringing reports—rocks and sands, without any utility, after spending so much money.
How long they can repeat this, "Yes, we went to this planet, rocks. We went to this—rocks." So we see variety. Is the so many luminaries, simply rocks and sands? The moon is full of rocks, and it's so illuminating?
Whole universe is illuminated so nice, moonshine. So many stars illuminating, and they're rocks and sand? We have to believe it? Jñānagamya: They are saying there is life on Mars. They are seeing microbes, small little living entities.
They are detecting these with their machines. So they are seeing, there is some life. Prabhupāda: Microbes? Jñānagamya: Microbe, you know, like microscopic... Prabhupāda: Why they can see only microbes, not a fully grown-up human being? Jñānagamya: No, they are detecting through gas. They feed the microbes, and then microbes give off evacuation... Prabhupāda: How they can see? Suppose you see from a distant place, this planet.
So how you can see within water? You can take photograph of the water, but how you can take photograph within the water? So what is the value of their taking photograph? Does the photograph takes the picture within the water? Ātreya Ṛṣi: No. Prabhupāda: Then what is the use of such photograph? Jñānagamya: But they are not detecting with photographs, they are detecting with chemicals. Prabhupāda: What that chemical? Jñānagamya: They say the chemicals are giving off gases when they are feeding the earth.
They take the ground from Mars... Prabhupāda: Just see so many bogus words they manufacture to make believe. Because they are scientist, they'll talk all big, big words which we cannot understand. So you cannot argue. [talks gibberish words] Like that.