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== Conversations and Morning Walks ==
<div class="quote" book="Con" link="Conversation with Prof. Kotovsky -- June 22, 1971, Moscow" link_text="Conversation with Prof. Kotovsky -- June 22, 1971, Moscow">
<div class="heading">Vedic understanding means you have to accept whatever is stated in the Vedas without any argument.</div>


=== 1971 Conversations and Morning Walks ===
<div class="text">'''[[Vanisource:Conversation with Prof. Kotovsky -- June 22, 1971, Moscow|Conversation with Prof. Kotovsky -- June 22, 1971, Moscow]]:'''
 
<span class="q_heading">'''Vedic understanding means you have to accept whatever is stated in the Vedas without any argument.'''</span>
 
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Prabhupāda: That... Why? Why there is no department of knowledge in university to study this fact scientifically? That is my proposition.
Prabhupāda: That... Why? Why there is no department of knowledge in university to study this fact scientifically? That is my proposition.
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Prof. Kotovsky: Here is the basic...
Prof. Kotovsky: Here is the basic...


Prabhupāda: No, no, that is allowed.</span>
Prabhupāda: No, no, that is allowed.</div>
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=== 1976 Conversations and Morning Walks ===
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<span class="q_heading">'''Vedic understanding means there is no different Vedic version.'''</span>
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<div class="heading">Vedic understanding means there is no different Vedic version.</div>


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Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What about that sometimes people ask us what about the pictures of man on the moon?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What about that sometimes people ask us what about the pictures of man on the moon?
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Reporter: Are there any other Vedic scriptures that you believe speak to a situation that is greatly misunderstood today besides this?
Reporter: Are there any other Vedic scriptures that you believe speak to a situation that is greatly misunderstood today besides this?


Prabhupāda: No. Vedic understanding means there is no different Vedic version.</span>
Prabhupāda: No. Vedic understanding means there is no different Vedic version.</div>
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Conversations and Morning Walks

1971 Conversations and Morning Walks

Vedic understanding means you have to accept whatever is stated in the Vedas without any argument.
Conversation with Prof. Kotovsky -- June 22, 1971, Moscow:

Prabhupāda: That... Why? Why there is no department of knowledge in university to study this fact scientifically? That is my proposition.

Prof. Kotovsky: Yes.

Prabhupāda: So that means they are lacking. It may be as you say, or it may be as I say, but there must be a department of knowledge, what is the... Now, recently one cardiologist, a doctor, he has accepted that there is soul, in Montreal and Toronto. I had some correspondence with him. So he is strongly in belief that there is soul. So that is another point of view, but we accept knowledge from authority. Authority. Just like this statement is given by Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is accepted as the authority by all the ācāryas, in Bhagavad-gītā. Bhagavad-gītā is studied amongst the scholarly circle and philosophical circle still, all over the world. And this statement is given by Kṛṣṇa:

dehino 'smin yathā dehe
kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā
tathā dehāntara-prāptir
dhīras tatra na muhyati
[Bg. 2.13]

So dehāntaram prāpti... Just like the childhood, now, giving up the childhood body, the soul is coming to the boyhood body, from boyhood, youth..., similarly, the soul, giving up this body, he accepts another body. This statement is given by Kṛṣṇa, the greatest authority according to our tradition of knowledge.

Prof. Kotovsky: Yes, I know.

Prabhupāda: So suppose we accept such statement without any argument. That is the way of Vedic understanding. Vedic understanding means you have to accept whatever is stated in the Vedas without any argument.

Prof. Kotovsky: So forget about Vedas. Our approach is we don't believe in anything without argument. We can believe only on anything based on argument.

Prabhupāda: Yes, that...

Prof. Kotovsky: Here is the basic...

Prabhupāda: No, no, that is allowed.

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

Vedic understanding means there is no different Vedic version.
Room Conversation with Reporter -- June 4, 1976, Los Angeles:

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What about that sometimes people ask us what about the pictures of man on the moon?

Rāmeśvara: They show man in a spacesuit walking on some other planet.

Prabhupāda: That is also, what is called, argumentative. Somebody says it is arbitrary arrangement.

Reporter: Hm. Laboratory.

Prabhupāda: Of course, we do not go into the details of this. My question is that why Sunday first and Monday second? Nobody can apli..., replies.

Rāmeśvara: Prabhupāda once also argued that the dust, the dirt that they brought back, it did not reflect any light, but the moon is always reflecting light. So it was a different substance than what must be on the moon surface.

Prabhupāda: Now, according to our Vedic scripture, Moon is one of the heavenly planets.

Reporter: Are there any other Vedic scriptures that you believe speak to a situation that is greatly misunderstood today besides this?

Prabhupāda: No. Vedic understanding means there is no different Vedic version.