Prabhupāda: Yes. Big, big planets, millions of miles. (pause)
Amogha: Śrīla Prabhupāda? When a spirit soul first falls from the spiritual sky into the material world, does he first go to the lowest of the 8,400,000 species of life, and then gradually come up, or can he fall to the middle or anywhere?
Prabhupāda: According to his desire. In the beginning it is not so fall down.
Śrutakīrti: In a purport in the Fourth Canto you say that usually they take human form, because they are desiring to enjoy in that way. And then they begin falling down.
Prabhupāda: Yes, the more they enjoy, the more they become entangled. Harer nāma. (pause) Does it snow here?
Amogha: Snow? No. In the mountains.
Prabhupāda: Mountains. (pause) . . . it is said that sun is the source of everything within this universe. Maintenance of all living entities. It is the origin. The source within the universe is the sun. So therefore this Gāyatrī mantra is worshiping the sun, oṁ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ tat savitur vareṇyaṁ bhargo devasya dhīmahi.
Gaṇeśa: Vivasvān is more powerful than Lord Brahmā? Srila Prabhupada. Does that mean that Vivasvān is more powerful than Lord Brahmā?
Prabhupāda: No. Vivasvān was begotten by Brahmā.
Amogha: Some Kali-yuga swans. (laughs)
Prabhupāda: Black swans. Bhara nitya bhayamāyā. They are also aware how to protect their interest. Every living being knows how to eat, how to sleep, how to have sex and how to defend from fear. (pause) . . . trees I find in America. Here, they are same trees. What is called, these? Canada.
Gaṇeśa: They look like the maple trees.
Prabhupāda: Yes. It is maple tree.
Gaṇeśa: I don't think it's quite the same.
Paramahaṁsa: No. It's maple tree, but you can't get any maple syrup from this kind. A special kind.
Amogha: It maybe some kind of Ash? They have this tree where I used to live, also. I don't remember the name of it. In California.
Prabhupāda: In . . . (indistinct) . . . also. There everywhere.
Śrutakīrti: On the airplane coming here they had some article in one of the airline book about eucalyptus trees and how these monks, they make wine out of the eucalyptus. The Trappist monks? Some kind of Trappist monks, they make wine out of the eucalyptus, and they have a big store, and they sell it in Italy. That's their profession, making different liquors.
Amogha: Recently we have shown the film and spoken in several Catholic schools in Melbourne. They have comparative religion classes, and they ask us to come to their high schools to teach comparative religion so the students can see what other religions think. Usually they . . .
Prabhupāda: There is no other religion. (laughs) All bogus. Dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavo (SB 1.1.2). Only religion is to surrender to Kṛṣṇa. That is religion.