Bob: What is the proper duty of the teacher in society? Let's say a science teacher. What should he be doing in the classroom?
Prabhupāda: Classroom, you should simply teach about Kṛṣṇa.
Bob: He should not teach about . . .
Prabhupāda: No, that will include everything. But his aim should be how to know Kṛṣṇa.
Bob: Can a scientist teach the science of combining acid and alkaline and this kind of science with Kṛṣṇa as its object?
Prabhupāda: How it can be?
Bob: If you . . . when one studies science, one finds general tendencies of nature, and these general tendencies of nature point to a controlling force.
Prabhupāda: That I was explaining the other day. Where? In Madras, or where? "Who has supplied these chemicals?"
Śyāmasundara: Ah, in Madras.
Prabhupāda: I asked one chemist that according to chemical formula, hydrogen and oxygen mixed, it becomes water. Is it not?
Bob: That's true.
Prabhupāda: Now, this vast water in the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean, how much chemicals were required?
Bob: How much?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Bob: Oh, I don't know.
Prabhupāda: How many tons?
Bob: Many.
Prabhupāda: So who supplied it?
Bob: This was supplied by God.
Prabhupāda: Somebody must have supplied.
Bob: Yes.
Prabhupāda: So that is . . . you can teach like that.
Bob: And should one bother teaching that if you combine acid and alkaline, or neutral . . .
Prabhupāda: The same thing. The same thing, that now we have to . . . that . . . there are so many effervescence. So who is performing it? Who is supplying the acid and alkaline? (pause)
Bob: So this comes from the same source as the water.
Prabhupāda: Um-hm. Yes. Water you cannot manufacture unless you have got hydrogen and oxygen. So here is a vast . . . not only this Atlantic or Pacific; there are millions of planets, and there are millions of Atlantic and Pacific oceans. So who created this water with hydrogen and oxygen, and how it was supplied? That is our question. Somebody must have supplied, otherwise how it came to existence?
Bob: But should it also be taught how you make water from hydrogen and oxygen, the procedure of burning them together? Should this also be taught, that if you burn hydrogen and oxygen together . . .
Prabhupāda: That is secondary.
Bob: Excuse me?
Prabhupāda: That is secondary. That is not very difficult. Just like this Mālatī made purī. So there is flour and there is ghee, and she made purī. But unless there is ghee and flour, where is the chance of making purī? (laughter)
(pause) (break) In the Bhagavad-gītā there is this, "Water, earth, air, fire, they are made of My energy."
Bob: Made of, what is that?
Prabhupāda: "My energy."
Bob: Ah.
Prabhupāda: What is your body. This external body, that is your energy. Do you know that? The body is made out of your own energy. Just like I am eating.
Bob: Yeah.
Prabhupāda: So I am creating some energy, and therefore my body is maintained.
Bob: Oh, I see.
Prabhupāda: So therefore your body is made out of your energy.
Bob: But when you eat the food, there is energy from the sun in the food . . .
Prabhupāda: No, that . . . I am giving the example, I am creating some energy by digesting the food, and that is maintaining my body. Therefore my body is maintained by my energy. If your energy supply is not proper, then your body becomes not in proper order.
Therefore the conclusion is that your body is made out of your own energy. Similarly, why this big gigantic body, universes, is not made of Kṛṣṇa's energies? How can you deny? As your body is made out of your energy, similarly, the universal body must be made by somebody's energy. That is Kṛṣṇa.