“Garden Conversation with Professors, Chairman of the Religion Dept. of U.S.C. and Dr. Stillson Judah”

Prabhupada, June 24, 1975, Los Angeles: ..If we take care of the circumstances, that is being done by the cats and dogs and hogs, everyone. Where to find eatables, where to find sex, where to find shelter for sleeping, and how to defense—these circumstances are understood by the animals.

There is no need of education. Just like this morning I pointed out. The bird is catching a small fish, “Fut!” He knows where to find out his eatable. And that you cannot do. You also eat fish, but you jump over and take a fish. You cannot do that. But he can do that.

He is more expert than you. Yes. In the troubled water, he is flying. He can see a small fish and immediately pick it up. Can you do that? So he is more advanced in civilization. He knows his techniques. He is greater scientist than you. You cannot do this.

A vulture goes seven miles up, and he can see where is a dead body. So even amongst the animals there are many expert scientists than our so- called scientists. But what that science will help? That science may help how to eat, how to sleep, how to have sex. That’s all.

And that is being done by the animals. It doesn’t require any advanced scientific knowledge. Real scientific knowledge is who is God, to know. That is meant for human being, Not this where to find out a fish very expertly. That is being done by a bird. Where is the use of scientists and philosophers? Therefore in the Vedanta-sutra the indication is there that, “Now you have got this human form of life. Find out where is God.” That is real science.

That we have set aside. That we do not touch. That we have left to the sentimentalist. Why don’t the scientists do not take up this work very seriously, “If there is God, where He is? Who is God?” That is Krishna consciousness movement, athato brahma jijnasa. So you are all learned scholars. You join this movement and help us.

To keep people in darkness, that is not advancement of education. And education does not mean how to find out a fish expertly. That is being done by the birds. Education means to solve the problem of life…