Panchadravida Swami Remembers Srila Prabhupada

Following Srila Prabhupada

Interview DVD 04

Panchadravida Swami: Prabhupada was going on a walk, and he called me because he said he wanted me to take the part of the material scientist. Then I said to him, “All right. Speaking as a scientist, we will not argue whether a soul exists or not. We’ll just take it as a given that a soul exists. So my question to you is that we will create the right properties in our laboratory and in our test tubes so that your Krishna will send a soul into a test tube. Is that premise accepted by you? Is that acceptable?” Because I was thinking if I can get Prabhupada to say yes, then I’ll say that “Then we have created life.” And then Prabhupada just said, “You rascal scientist. You will not tell Krishna where He has to send a soul.”