Guest (3): You mean, Swāmījī, then, that all scientific efforts, whatever they are, that are made, should be stopped altogether?
Prabhupāda: No, not stopped. Just like you have got ordinary car and you purchase a Rolls-Royce car. The business is the same. It is simply an artistic improvement. In the ordinary car there is much jerking, and the Rolls-Royce car there is no jerking. That will not benefit you. After all, it is car. You can use it for going here to there, there to here, that's all. Therefore our Vedic civilization, they are not very much eager to manufacture a motorcar; they are satisfied with the bullock cart. Because after all, you have to go from this place to that place. And there was no need of big, big roads, three thousand miles long, for driving the car. You see? The bullock cart was sufficient, here to there, a few miles. But they were interested to cultivate spiritual knowledge. That is Indian civilization. Vyāsadeva was living in a cottage, and just see his literature. Cāṇakya Paṇḍita was prime minister of India, and he was living in a cottage, drawing no salary, and he has given his politics and moral lesson, so sublime. So here at the present moment, the motorcar civilization, he's anxious how to get a Rolls-Royce motorcar, that's all. That is his business.
Guest (3): When you say, Swāmījī, very humbly I would like to know, that scientific inventions should not be stopped, what should be the actual modus operandi continuum on. . .
Prabhupāda: Modus. . . athāto brahma jijñāsā, to enquire of the Absolute Truth. Jīvasya tattva-jijñāsā nārtho yaś ceha karmabhiḥ (SB 1.2.10). Karma you should do, but the kāmasya nendriya-prītiḥ. . . (aside:) Find out this verse. You can close this door. Kāmasya nendriya-prītiḥ, our desires should not be engaged for sense gratification. That is going on. All desires, all improvement, all science, they are being. . . Just like you were speaking about the protein deficiency. That is all concerning the body. Body means senses. There is no higher study.