True survival means transcending material nature and understanding Krishna, not merely organizing earthly civilization.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Hayagrīva: This is Thomas Henry Huxley. Huxley felt that, "The main 1372
difference between man and the animals is the ability to speak." Now, is...
Prabhupāda: That is the beginning of another nonsense. Everyone speaks in his own language. What does he..., what he mean by speak?
Hayagrīva: But isn't speech, which is the articulation of the intellect, the primary difference between man and the animals in the sense that is it not through words that one can come to understand God?
Prabhupāda: That is another thing, but the animal has a, his own language, as the human being has his own language. So why does he say that? When he speaks, he speaks from the very beginning in his own language.
Hayagrīva: Well he, he, he mentions speech as being, "Intelligible, rational speech..."
Prabhupāda: They have got rational speech.