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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]]
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<div class="heading">From historical point of view it is copied because Vedas are created by Brahmā long, long, many millions, millions of years, and Bible is created two thousand years. So we have to take the original. All religious system of the world, they are taken from Vedas, from different parts. Therefore they are not complete. The age of Bible is not more than two thousand years. The age of Veda you cannot calculate, millions and millions of years.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- October 5, 1975, Mauritius|Morning Walk -- October 5, 1975, Mauritius]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Indian boy (2): Creation, how... About the creation. I have read it from Bible too, about Adam and Eve. Do you think that it's true?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What is the idea of Adam?</p>
<p>Indian boy (2): God has created him.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So the same process is mentioned in Vedas. God created Brahmā, and he created this universe.</p>
<p>Indian boy (2): All which we can see on the earth have been created by...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Brahmā.</p>
<p>Indian boy (2): Brahmā. Who is Brahmā?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Brahmā is the first creature in the universe, created by God. He came from the navel.</p>
<p>Indian boy (2): Therefore, by himself he could create everything, Swamijī?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Who?</p>
<p>Indian boy (2): Brahmā himself? He is only one...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. He was empowered.</p>
<p>Indian boy (2): He was only one person.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Empowered by God. God created Brahmā, and he was empowered to create the universe.</p>
<p>Indian boy (2): There should not have been two people, a female and male?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm?</p>
<p>Indian boy (2): There should not have been two people, a male and a female, to create everything?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, male and female.</p>
<p>Indian boy (2): Then, apart from Brahmā, there would have been something else.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, Brahmā created male and female.</p>
<p>Indian boy (2): Oh, he himself created it from...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: From his ear, from his eyes, from his..., like that. From many parts of his body.</p>
<p>Indian man (3): Swamijī, there is something quite confusing.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm?</p>
<p>Indian man (3): Lord Kṛṣṇa created Lord Viṣṇu, and Lord Viṣṇu in His turn created Lord Brahmā. So...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Not created, expanded. Just like one candle is burning, and you lit up another candle. So this candle is not created, it is simply power transfer. Expansion. You can call it expansion. Dīpārcir eva hi daśāntaram abhyupetya (Bs. 5.46). Expansion of the light. This is, contains iodine, this ship. Iodine. That ship is going or coming?</p>
<p>Cyavana: Going. But he's sitting.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, it is standing.</p>
<p>Cyavana: It's sitting, yes.</p>
<p>Indian boy (2): Swamijī, do you think that Bible, about the Adam, Adam is Brahmā? It has been copied from the Indian philosophy to put it there in different name?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: From historical point of view it is copied because Vedas are created by Brahmā long, long, many millions, millions of years, and Bible is created two thousand years. So we have to take the original. All religious system of the world, they are taken from Vedas, from different parts. Therefore they are not complete. The age of Bible is not more than two thousand years. The age of Veda you cannot calculate, millions and millions of years.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Why is it, Prabhupāda, that in earlier parts of the Kali-yuga no one like yourself came throughout the rest of the world and preached Kṛṣṇa consciousness?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh? Preached? Caitanya Mahāprabhu preached. His descendant preached. Why do you say no one preached?</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: But throughout the rest of the world, places like Japan and Australia...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Your calculation of the world. If it is preached anywhere, that is preached on the world. It was not spread, you can say, but it was preached.</p>
<p>Cyavana: The seed was planted.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Harikeśa: They were saving it for you.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: For you also.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: I think they had their hands full with India. They had their hands full with India, all of the preachers.</p>
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