Quotes: Criticism of the Founders of Materialistic Medicine (Srila Prabhupada)

Aquinas

Hayagriva disa: Aquinas would contend that since the material universe could not have arisen out of God's spiritual nature, it had to be created out of nothing.

Srila Prabhupida: Material nature is also an energy of God's.

Descartes

Syamasundara dasa: Descartes sees matter operating like a machine under mechanical laws... However, he claims that the soul is unaffected by mechanical causes...

Srila Prabhupada: Yet somehow or other he has been put into this mechanical process... Because it is living force, it must be dynamic. Living force is not dead stone. We are all living force. We may be sitting here now, or we may be leaving. (from section Henri Bergson)

Huxley

Syamasundara dasa: Huxley also introduced the conception called epiphenomenalism, the belief that the mind and consciousness are products of the physical process.

Srila Prabhupada: We also accept the fact that the mind is physical and that consciousness is also physical and yet subtle. Syamasundara dasa: For Huxley, when the body dies, the mind and consciousness also die. Srila Prabhupada: But he has no inform ation of the soul. Wherever there is the soul, there is mind, consciousness, and everything else. The mind, consciousness, and intelligence are all present, but now they are materially contaminated. What we have to do is to purify them. It is not that we are to try to make our mind, consciousness and intelligence nil. That is not possible.