The modern scientific view is that there is no soul

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Prabhupada, London, August 29, 1973: […] So Krishna is putting forward the modern scientific view. The modern scientific view is that there is no soul. Life is generated from matter. By combination of material elements at a… Just like chemical combination.

You mix acid and soda, alkaline and acid. There will be some reaction, effervescence, movement. Similarly, the Buddhist philosophy mostly, they do not believe in the existence of the soul. The Buddhist philosopher thinks that the combination of matter makes a living symptom. Their ultimate goal is nirvana. Nirvana means stop this combination. Due to this combination, we feel pains and pleasure.

Therefore, if we disintegrate the combination, there will be no more pains and pleasure. Materialistic. Their solution, pains and pleasure, any philosophy or any religious system, ultimately aims at atyantika-duhkha-nivrtti. Duhkha means pain, and nivrtti, nivrtti means stop. Why people go to the church? Because they feel some pain, they go to church or temple to appeal, “If there is somebody as God…”

They think like that. “Let me appeal to the Supreme Person so that my distress may be mitigated.” So aim is atyantika-duhkha-nivrtti. We are also cultivating this Krishna consciousness. Our aim is also the same. Duhkha-nivrtti. Krishna says, janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi-duhkha-dosanudarsanam.

We keep always in view that in this material existence there are four kinds of miserable condition, primarily. To stop this. Duhkhalayam asasvatam [Bg. 8.15]. Everyone’s aim is duhkha-nivrtti. It may be presented in a different way. So the Buddha philosophy is also duhkha-nivrtti, stop pains. Full Lecture