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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1971]]
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<div class="heading">Because it is imperfect, therefore there is an accident.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on William James|Philosophy Discussion on William James]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Śyāmasundara: Well, he says it like this, that there are alternative courses of action. For every possibility there are several other possibilities. So that for instance a man can make a decision, a choice, to take different, alternative way. So he says that nature works in that way also.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. Nature is not working that way. Nature is working very perfectly. We can see. Just after... So perfect that the astronomers, they are calculating that on such and such date there will be an eclipse, and it will be seen in India; it will not be seen in Europe; and exactly at this time the eclipse will begin. So how they are calculating unless there is a rigid law? How it is possible? They are calculating mathematically. The general matter that two plus two is always four, not that by accident it becomes five. That is not possible. So the nature's law is working in that way. Otherwise how one year before you can calculate this solar eclipse and lunar eclipse so rightly? And they can say that from this country it will be seen, and from this country it will be not seen. That means the position of the sun, moon and everything, of the latitude and longitude, everything is so nicely done that you can make calculations very perfectly. How you can say accident? There is no accident.</p>
<p>Devānanda: In the Bhagavad-gītā even the human behavior is predicted like that. Through the later chapters it is described how people will act in different modes of nature, and they all behave that  way.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. Just like in Bhāgavata it is calculated that lāvaṇyaṁ keśa-dhāraṇam. In the Kali-yuga, in this age, people will think by keeping their long hair he has become beautiful. Now, then, see all the hippies. That is written in the Bhāgavatam in India. How it is happening in Europe? Now the Indians also are imitating. So five thousand years before, this was written, lāvaṇyaṁ keśa-dhāraṇam.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: So would even accidents between two automobiles, that would not really be an accident?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Because it is imperfect, therefore there is an accident.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Oh! It is an accident?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: That is not determined by any...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No.</p>
<p>Bhavānanda: That's not determined even by karma?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What?</p>
<p>Bhavānanda: It is not determined even by karma?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. In higher sense it is also like that. That means from God's eyes even the so-called accident is also predestined.</p>
<p>Devānanda: Nothing can be outside of the law of God.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
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