Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Kamsa’s And Ravana’s State
In Boston I was invited in the Massachusetts Technological Institute? Yes. So I, first of all I questioned the students that “You have got technological department. So where is the technology where we can understand the difference between a dead man and a living man? What is the thing is lost that a body’s called dead body? What is that technology.” So I talked on this point. The students appreciated very much. Actually, there is no technology why a man is dead. What is the machine, what is the component part of the machine is missing? You can replace it. But where is that technology? There is no technology. Because there is no knowledge with reference to Vasudeva. Simply superficial. Bahir-artha-maninah. They do not know what is the purpose of knowledge. They’re taking interest, taking care of this bahir-artha, external things. Bahir-artha-maninah. Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum (SB 7.5.31). This is knowledge, svartha-gatim, to approach Vasudeva, Visnu. But without that knowledge, they are simply taking outward. Just like Darwin’s theory. He has no knowledge. He’s simply studying this body. That’s all.