Hṛdayānanda: Prabhupāda? You wrote in a letter to Bhagavān... You said that originally the Europeans had Aryan-type culture but they have become degraded.
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. They are still Aryan. Europeans are Aryan, Indo-Aryan. That is admitted in history.
Hṛdayānanda: You said that they became degraded by associating, by bad...
Prabhupāda: Yes, by association with these aborigines.
Hṛdayānanda: Who were the aborigines they associated with?
Prabhupāda: Everywhere there were aborigines. In India there are still aborigines, ādivāsī.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You were saying, Prabhupāda, the Huns.
Prabhupāda: Huns.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. Huns. They were considered like that?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Huns are also lower than the śūdras, caṇḍālas, dog-eaters, animal-eaters. And these Europeans historians, they take the aborigines, their original father.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Their what, Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: Original father.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You said, "Yes, they are your original father."
Prabhupāda: No, no. "The aborigines, the naked jaṅgalīs, they were original person." Do they not?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Before that, there was the caveman.
Prabhupāda: Ah, caveman. That's... Caveman. That is aborigine.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And before the caveman was the missing link.
Prabhupāda: And he has known missing link.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They don't know who they're missing, 'cause he's missing.
Prabhupāda: Just see the imagination, fanatic imagination. He is creating...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Species.
Prabhupāda: ...a theory, a species.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Missing link species. And they have... They have models of this missing link.
Prabhupāda: They know it; still "missing."
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Although it's missing...
Prabhupāda: "Missing" means they know only, "Oh, he knows."
Hṛdayānanda: When I was preaching in California, one very famous anthropologist came to speak there, and he gave a new theory about the origin of the species. So he said... Before the audience he said that "Actually we have very little evidence of this theory."
Prabhupāda: Hmm?
Hṛdayānanda: He said that "We have very little evidence for this theory," but he said that "All of you should not be disturbed, because our previous theory, we had no evidence whatsoever. (laughter) So this is an improvement."
Prabhupāda: He admitted. "Previous theory, that was nonsense," and still the nonsense going on.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: "So don't be disturbed."
Prabhupāda: Yes. "So you are dealing with all nonsense. Don't be disappointed."