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Establishing Bhaktivedanta Institute, Challenging Modern Scientists

📅 March 27, 1977 📍 Bombay ⏱ 31 min
Challenge modern science with Vedic knowledge while recruiting brilliant minds through proper facilities and institutional respect.
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Prabhupāda: Nainaṁ dahati pāvakaḥ [Bg 2.23] So if you combine together and go to any scientist, you challenge and prove scientifically. See this is the mistake. You do not know what is life's position, but we shall. Life is different.

Yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat [Bg 7.5]. Without life, this matter has no value. This room is well decorated, well furnished. Why?

Yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat. Because the life is there. If there was no life, then who cares for Bombay? Heaps of stone, that's all.

Who cares for it? So you do not know that particular item and try to convince them according to the modern scientific... Then we shall be triumphant. Everywhere.

Everywhere. Challenge these rascals, that "You have got power, and you will get more power by serving Kṛṣṇa." Your presentation was very nice. Svarūpa Dāmodara: Prabhupāda's mercy. Prabhupāda: What Dr. Dattrey says, after hearing your lecture? Svarūpa Dāmodara: Many..., some engineers came, and some doctors also came. They wanted us speak in Bombay Hospital.

And just now also I got a letter from England from Jagadguru Swami. He said that on our way to the United States we should stop in England. He says that he talked something about Bhaktivedanta Institute in England. He said we should speak in Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

He said there is a very good preaching background there. So he invited us to... Prabhupāda: You will be invited. You stick to your position and train up your assistants and recruit more and more. We shall come out successful.

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