Without Krishna consciousness and proper spiritual guidance, all human endeavor—however intelligent—remains fundamentally mischievous and temporary.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: ...Dialectic Spiritualism. Dr. Patel: [laughs] You have taken their, I mean, word.
Prabhupāda: It is not their words, but just to counter... Dr. Patel: In fact, sir, Engel was a spiritualist, and his follower, Karl Marx, became materialist because he saw abject poverty all round, due to the industrial revolution. He thought in that way.
Prabhupāda: As if he was ordained to do it. Dr. Patel: But, well, he felt... He was a philosopher.
Prabhupāda: Such a rascal. He has moved poverty. He was a poverty-stricken... Dr.
Patel: He was extremely poor man. Yes, he died of tuberculosis. But that is what he thought.
Prabhupāda: That means poor fund of knowledge. That's it. Dr. Patel: Engel was a, absolutely a...
Prabhupāda: These rascals will never go to the... Tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigacchet [Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 1.2.12(1)]. They do not know this science, these rascals. They manufacture.