Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He says, "We never thought to read Bhāgavatam as you are now talking. We have not read Bhāgavatam like this yet, so I will have to begin to read again as..." I mean, what... I'm only wondering what kind of talk Patita Uddhāraṇa must have had with him that he felt that this man was qualified.
Prabhupāda: So how he'll make diagram? He has no idea.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, he doesn't. He never thought about it. No one reads the Bhāgavatam as a scientific book, Śrīla Prabhupāda. That's the point. Except for Your Divine Grace, they are thinking it's story, "It is stories."
Prabhupāda: Yes, they do not believe.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No. And therefore no one takes it seriously. Modern people don't take it seriously.
Prabhupāda: There was a Gosāi. He was reading Caitanya-caritāmṛta. So the description of the planetary system there is. He used to say to his audience, "Actually these things are not there. These are imaginary descriptions." He was such a fool. So the whole world has taken like that, "symbolic, imagination."
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And he was lecturing on Caitanya-caritāmṛta. I think you mentioned that one of your Godbrothers once said to you, "You really believe that there is such a place, Kṛṣṇaloka, Vaikuṇṭhaloka?" He was himself...
Prabhupāda: Bon Mahārāja did not believe. No... Nobody ever thought of it.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You are the only representative, the lone representative of religion left on this planet, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: So what to do? He has wasted so much money. He's not the proper man.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No. Why not let us try to find out some man locally here in Bombay?
Prabhupāda: Very difficult. You can try.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I mean, there's just as good a chance he'll find him here as anywhere else. And it won't cost anything.
Prabhupāda: "Astronomer knowing the planetary system," you can advertise. "Expert astronomer who knows the planetary systems as described..."
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: "...in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam."
Prabhupāda: Hm.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, we can advertise. Instead of having somebody going all over India.
Prabhupāda: He assured that he has found out an expert. The other man did not come because he does not know.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Patita said that these were the two top men in all of India, guaranteed.
Prabhupāda: Let us see what does he do. (end)