Material success cannot satisfy the soul; only Krishna consciousness brings genuine peace and purpose to human life.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. Hmm. Thank you. [Transl. From where have you returned?]
Svarūpa Dāmodara: I came yesterday from Manipur, er, from Calcutta, came day before yesterday. I stayed one night in Calcutta. The temple is nice. They have a smaller number of devotees in Calcutta now, but it's very conducive, very cooperative, so the atmosphere was very nice.
Prabhupāda: That is all right. Small number is all right. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Śatadhanya Mahārāja is the in-charge there.
Prabhupāda: Simply congestion is no good. So you are going to Kartikeya's house?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes, today. They came yesterday. He's very learned, and he had a number of degrees. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: How many degrees did he have?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: He said he had, honorary, about some fourteen, fifteen Ph.D. degrees. Prabhupāda: Ph.D. genuine? Svarūpa Dāmodara: Some are honorary, but he is from Oxford and Cambridge, very renowned scholar. Mādhava: He's a chemist. Prabhupāda: He's a chemist. Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes. So he's very old. He's about seventy-three years old. And he had a genuine desire to be engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
So he'll be a devotee. So he invited us to come and speak to him today on... I'm going to speak on science and Kṛṣṇa consciousness today. Prabhupāda: A good opportunity. Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes. And he expressed very frankly and very honestly...