With you in your room in Mayapur there is no time, no beginning or end. Everything is so pleasant, the air blows into the room, soothing us like nectar, and you lean back and challenge, “If there is something missing, simply some chemical lost from the body at the time of death, then why don’t they inject that chemical and bring the body back to life? And if it is simply some chemical change that has occurred, then why do so many living organisms, worms and parasites, come out? If the body can no longer sustain life, then why do so many living entities thrive on the body after the body dies? Can they answer these things?” And trying to present some argument, I say, “Well, they say that just as before Henry Ford designed the automobile, there were theories but no one had been able to make a motorcar, in the same way they say that they have not yet been able to create life, but they are working on it.” And you laugh heartily, saying, “Well, until that Henry Ford comes forward and creates life, until that Henry Ford makes a living entity, then let them keep quiet. When that Henry Ford makes a living entity, then let them speak.”

Pancadravida Swami, Vyasa-Puja Homage 1979