Prabhupāda: That's nice. What they are saying now? (kīrtana heard from downstairs)
Bhagavān: Downstairs? "Haribol." People cannot understand how just by chanting enthusiastic kīrtana so many problems can be solved.
Prabhupāda: Yes. What they understand, all rascals? Wasting time. Going to the moon planet, going to the Mars planet. Why? What you will gain? Still they are going. Simply spending money. In Bengal it is called ostādi. Ostādi, in English? One who places himself as very intelligent leader. What is called in one word?
Bhagavān: Presumptuous?
Prabhupāda: Presumptions?
Bhagavān: Presumes he's something that he's...
Prabhupāda: No, it is a very nice word.
Hari-śauri: An imposter?
Prabhupāda: Imposter is falsely. It is not exactly false. Beginning with "p." Do you find there teacher? Teachers, other things?
Hari-śauri: Teacher?
Prabhupāda: Teacher, and other synonyms. Find out the teacher. They have got so many synonyms.
Hari-śauri: Teacher. "Educator, instructor, preceptor, master, tutor, coach, schoolmaster, schoolmistress, schoolmarm, pedagogue."
Prabhupāda: Pedagogue, yes, this word.
Hari-śauri: Pedagogy, how do you pronounce this word? Pedagogue.
Prabhupāda: This word, now you see what is the pedagogue in dictionary. Pedigree. Pedagogue-pedagogue or predagogue?
Hari-śauri: Pedagogue. Here we are. "Pedagogue: schoolmaster, teacher." That's all he gives. "Pedagogy: science of teaching."
Bhagavān: "Employing pedantry." Look up pedantry. It says, "Usually derogatory."
Hari-śauri: Oh, "Pedant—one who overrates booklearning or technical knowledge or insists on strict adherence to formal rules. One always possessed by theory doctrinaire(?)."
Prabhupāda: Yes, this word.
Hari-śauri: Pedant.
Prabhupāda: Pedagogue?
Bhagavān: Pedagogue is the first, yes.
Prabhupāda: What is the spelling?
Hari-śauri: P-e-d-a-g-o-g-u-e.
Prabhupāda: Pedagogue. Not pedi, but peda.
Hari-śauri: Pedagogue.
Prabhupāda: So they are going on, pedagogue.
Hari-śauri: And the other one is pedant, pedant. One who overrates booklearning.
Prabhupāda: Pedantry, there is a... Our Harikeśa was speaking that if they do not say there is life in Mars, then their whole propaganda will fail.
Hari-śauri: Yes, I was saying that this morning.
Prabhupāda: This time, if they say that there is no life in the Mars, they'll never get next chance, he said. I think it is meaningful.
Bhagavān: It will substantiate our claim.
Prabhupāda: No, our claim intelligent. They are loitering. Our claim is that they do not know anything about that. All foolish propaganda. But their position is that unless they say that there is life, then this false propaganda will no longer run on. We are certain that they cannot go there, neither is it possible to understand what is there, simply imagination. We do not give any credit.