Scientists are simply concerned with the laws of nature because the laws of nature are very stringent | Interview, New York

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video: Ohe Vaishnava Thakura – Mangalananda das (Michael Cassidy)

Guest, New York, July 5, 1972: […] Yes, I guess it would be hard to define in terms of a search. Man’s…, man’s search for something divine. I’d…, I’d define it in terms of, of a search for the divine. I’ve been studying Russian Elders in the Orthodox Church. Perhaps that’s a tradition that you’re familiar with in some way. They seem to have found the divine. I guess that’s religion too. It seems to me both are, but perhaps you have a better definition than that?

Prabhupada: Yes. When you are searching with some hope, what is that hope? Why you are searching? When you are missing something, then there is a question of searching for that missing point. You said religion means searching after the divine. So that means you are missing the divine. Is it not?

Guest (1): That’s right.

Prabhupada: Now, the next question will be, What do you mean by this “divine”?

Guest (1): Oh, I’m not…, I’m not sure, Your Grace.

Prabhupada: The other day we were talking with some scientists. We came to this conclusion, that the scientists, big scientists, they are simply concerned with the laws of nature, because the laws of nature are very stringent. For example, there is death. Everyone will die. So nobody can check death.

However great scientist he may, he cannot stop death. By laws of nature one is becoming old. By your scientific advancement you can stop first of all. So the science means they are trying to overcome the stringent laws of nature, but so far… Not so far—even in the past in the human history they could not. In the present also they are unable. They say in future they will be able.

But how we can believe it? Because in the past they could not; in the present also they are unable. How they can overcome the laws of nature in the future? Full Conversation