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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1974 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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Prabhupāda: . . . contradiction of the law of gravitation. According to our śāstra the planets are held on the hood of Ananta. He is carrying. But they say they are staying on account of law of gravitation.

Yaśomatīnandana: That is Kṛṣṇa's supreme energy, as you explain, tejo-vāri-mṛdāṁ yathā vinimaya (SB 1.1.1). There is water, He creates. He can do anything. The scientists may make any laws.
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[[Vanisource:740407 - Morning Walk - Bombay|740407 - Morning Walk - Bombay]]
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Yaśomatīnandana: Because they don't believe anything that they cannot see with their gross senses.

Prabhupāda: (chuckles) That is another foolishness. You cannot see in the sky so many things. Now this plane is going on. It may be unseen for some time. So that is the only reason? Because they cannot see? They cannot see milk? They have seen milk or not?

Yaśomatīnandana: Their experience of sea is that it has saltwater, salty water. They have not experienced . . .

Prabhupāda: No, this is water. As water is also liquid, milk is also liquid. So if there is ocean of water, why not ocean of milk?

Yaśomatīnandana: There can be, but . . .

Prabhupāda: There can be, yes. So how they can say that there cannot be?

Yadubara: They would say that, "The milk comes from the cow. So how could it be an ocean?"

Prabhupāda: Water comes from man. If you pass urine, there is water. What is the difference? The water also comes from . . .

Yaśomatīnandana: It is just that it is beyond their experience.

Prabhupāda: (japa) That experience should be gathered from authority.

Yaśomatīnandana: Yes. I also tell them sometimes that "Did you see your grandfather?" They say: "Well, no." "But you still accept that he was there." They say, "Yes, because my father tells me. Somebody else says." Similarly, I said that, "Even though you didn't see your grandfather, you accept that there was a grandfather." (break)

Prabhupāda: . . . contradiction of the law of gravitation. According to our śāstra the planets are held on the hood of Ananta. He is carrying. But they say they are staying on account of law of gravitation.

Yaśomatīnandana: That is Kṛṣṇa's supreme energy, as you explain, tejo-vāri-mṛdāṁ yathā vinimaya ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]). There is water, He creates. He can do anything. The scientists may make any laws.

Prabhupāda: No. But they cannot use that law. They cannot float any other thing in the air by this law. Still they say: "There is law of gravitation."

Girirāja: (reading) "They were also informed of the external . . ." (break)

Prabhupāda: He had to accept so much dowry. How many thousands horses?

Girirāja: Fifteen thousand.

Prabhupāda: So who will take dowry like this? (laughs) And how many? Four hundred elephants. Who can maintain four hundred elephants?

Girirāja: "While the bride and bridegroom were passing . . ."

Prabhupāda: Nowadays horses and elephants are not selling, because nobody can maintain. Yes.

Yaśomatīnandana: Only the zoos.

Prabhupāda: Yes. (break) . . . animal-eaters, later on they will not find animals to eat. They will eat themselves. Because animals are not being maintained, they may be, according to Darwin's theory, extinct.

Satsvarūpa: In the US and everywhere they maintain them just for slaughter. So will that dwindle out?

Prabhupāda: Yes. Slaughtering, slaughtering, when there will be no more, where this question of slaughtering?

Yaśomatīnandana: When there are no more animals, where will they produce? . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: They maintain elephant also for slaughtering?

Satsvarūpa: No.

Yaśomatīnandana: When I was in America I heard last year there was a beef shortage. There was a meat shortage.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Meat shortage, yes.

Yaśomatīnandana: They import a lot of beef from Australia.

Prabhupāda: Hmm. Go on reading.

Indian man: Here also scarcity will start. Slaughtering means . . . (break)

Prabhupāda: This example is given. Suppose we are walking. This step, when I assure that, "This is all right; it is not, it will not go down," then I take up this. Then again this. This example is given. Similarly, change of body like that. As soon as it is settled up what kind of body he is going to accept or which is being offered to him, daiva-netreṇa ([[Vanisource:SB 3.31.3|SB 3.31.3]]), by higher authorities, then this man leaves this body and again enters in the womb of . . . (indistinct) . . . the body which he is destined to get. This is the process of death.
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