learning how to bark like one

In our Delhi program... There was lecture of a big scientist in Delhi; I forgot his name. He gave very good example that if a man learns how to bark like dog, and if he makes a show, many thousands of people will purchase ticket and go and see how he is barking. [laughter] But by nature's arrangement so many dogs are barking; nobody takes care. You see? So similarly, in the laboratory if a scientist can produce a life some way or other, so they will go and see and give him clap. Just like this aeroplane is flying in the air. Little discrepancy is immediately crash down. So he is getting so much credit, and the scientists also saying, "There is no need of God. Now we have solved all the questions." But nobody is giving credit to Krsna, who is floating millions and trillions of stars and planets in the air. So by taking Krsna's stock, the petroleum or gas, we become scientist and fly the aeroplane, and Krsna has given the petrol, and He has no credit. He has no credit. That is the difference between demons and bhakta. A bhakta sees in everything presence of Krsna: "Oh, here is Krsna's energy is there. Here is nice taste. Oh, here is Krsna." Raso 'ham apsu kaunteya [Bg 7.8].    (More...)

Tamala Krsna: Imitating a barking dog.    (More...)

Prabhupada: That's all. That some millions of dogs are barking, and one man has learned how to bark like dog, and people will go to see him by purchasing ticket. This is their foolishness. Suppose if you somehow or other become able to produce life from chemical, then what is your credit? It is like barking dog. Millions of dog are barking. Now you have learned how to bark like dog. So what is your credit? It may be for the rascal fools that you are scientist, but we are not so rascal.    (More...)

Rūpanuga: They will clap. [claps hands] The fools will clap.    (More...)

Prabhupada: Yes. Yes. "How nice barking. Oh, how he has learned to bark." Just see. We are not so fools. Krsna yei bhaje sei baḍo catura: "The first-class intelligent man is he who is Krsna conscious." Sei baḍo catura. All rascals. Krsna said, na mam duskrtinaḥ mūḍhaḥ [Bg 7.15]. Oh, so what is scientist? Mayayapahrta-jnana: "They have no knowledge, all rascals." Krsna says. Mayayapahrta-jnana. That he is not thinking, that "Suppose I can produce life by chemical combination, then what is my credit? The life is already there. It is going on very nicely." What do you think, Balavanta? If the things are going on nicely, then where is my credit? Either you say "by chance," or "by God's arrangement," "by nature," but things are going on nicely. So it is same thing, to learn how to bark, that's all. Barking is going on, but he wants to take credit by learning how to bark. That's all.    (More...)