Hanumān: They are trying to keep the body conserved in a machine for the time being. They pay one million dollars to be put in that machine, and the machine all day long takes all this chemical out and then of their body. So maybe in fifty years they will be able to wake them up to cure the disease that killed them.
Śyāmasundara: They are frozen, too, aren’t they?
Hanumān: Frozen. They are frozen. They call it frozen.
Śyāmasundara: Freeze their bodies.
Hanumān: And great scientists, great doctors, they do that. They pay one million dollars to go in that machine in the hope that one day they will be able to come back and enjoy.
Prabhupāda: Do you want to go? (laughter)
Hanumān: No. I want to serve your lotus feet.
Prabhupāda:
- piśācī paile yena mati-cchanna haya
- māyā-grasta jīvera se daśā
- (Prema-vivarta)
Just like when a person becomes ghostly-haunted, he talks all nonsense. Similarly, one who is under the influence of māyā, he also talks. So this machine has proved successful even for a single man or children?
Indian Guest: Not yet.
Hanumān: They haven't wakened anyone up now. (laughter) They're all still in the machine. (laughter) In five years . . .
Woman devotee: So that all the people who paid the money will be dead also.
Prabhupāda: People are paying money and going to the machine?
Hanumān: One million dollars.