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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
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<div class="heading">This is the proof. This is the proof. You see. But if you close your eyes... Just like if somebody says, "Now there is sunrise, light." And if he is in darkness, he says, "Where is the proof there is light?" So, "You please come out and see." So you read it and there will be proof.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- December 7, 1973, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- December 7, 1973, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prajāpati: Śrīla Prabhupāda, I once was distributing some of your literature to a library, and the librarian said, "If these are five thousand years old, where is the proof of this? Do we have the copies that were written down five thousand years ago?"</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: This is the proof. This is the proof. You see. But if you close your eyes... Just like if somebody says, "Now there is sunrise, light." And if he is in darkness, he says, "Where is the proof there is light?" So, "You please come out and see." So you read it and there will be proof.</p>
<p>Karandhara: Even if you don't accept it's five thousand years old, that doesn't diminish the value of the books.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Simply read it. There is no question of five thousand, ten thousand, old or new. Just see what is the knowledge there. Lokasyājānato vidvāṁś cakre sātvata-saṁhitām ([[Vanisource:SB 1.7.6|SB 1.7.6]]). Because they are fools, for them this literature is made. Lokasyājānato vidvāṁś cakre sātvata-saṁhitām. (break) ...accept Bhāgavata, then their Darwin's theory is finished. Darwin's theory is finished.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: No, if they accept that there is a spirit soul, then Darwin's theory is also finished.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Spirit soul, they don't like to accept it.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
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