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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
[[Category:Questions On... The Moon]]
[[Category:Questions On... Material Creation, Universe]]
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">There is two movements, a sun movement and the whole planetary system movement. So according to the movement.... That is explained in the Bhāgavatam.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- March 21, 1976, Mayapura|Morning Walk -- March 21, 1976, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: If the moon is illuminating, why can we only see half of the moon?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They say there is half of the illuminating.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yes, because it's reflected from the sun.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: The shadow, then there is shadow. It is being shadowed.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: If it's reflection.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, reflection we do not accept.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: It's illuminating.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: It is Illuminating.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Giving off light.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: So then why is it that we can only see half of the moon, then?</p>
<p>Pañca-draviḍa: Half moon.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: About these movements, my position is different. My position is.... There is two movements, a sun movement and the whole planetary system movement. So according to the movement.... That is explained in the Bhāgavatam.</p>
<p>Pañca-draviḍa: Why is it sometimes there's only quarter moon, no moon, half moon, full moon?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: The same explanation. On the whole, we have to accept that something wonderful is going on. And that is Kṛṣṇa's arrangement.</p>
<p>Trivikrama: Jaya.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You cannot explain. You, you rascal scientists, from so much distant, you have calculated, "This is thi..." This is all wrong. Yasyājñayā bhramati sambhṛta-kāla-cakraḥ. They are carrying order of Kṛṣṇa, not your order. Yasyājñayā. "By the order of Govinda," not your order. Yasyājñayā bhramati sambhṛta-kāla-cakraḥ.</p>
<p>Pañca-draviḍa: (break) "There may be a God, but all these stories..."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: "There may be." That is rascaldom.</p>
<p>Pañca-draviḍa: All these stories about Him...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Anyone who says "maybe," he's not scientist. He's a rascal. Then why shall I hear him? Rascal. Why shall I waste my time? I am not going to waste my time to hear a rascal. How can I? I have got value of my time. As soon as he says "Maybe there is God," he's a rascal.</p>
<p>Pañca-draviḍa: Then, if he says...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Now, just like if somebody says, "Maybe there is a president," he's a rascal. He does not know what is the history, what is the constitution. He does not know. So why a gentleman should waste a time with such a rascal who says, "There may be a president"? Immediately he becomes a rascal.</p>
<p>Pañca-draviḍa: Then he says, "There is a God, but all these stories about Him and His activities, they are just imaginations."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's right. You do not know what is God, after all. "There may be." Then who is going to hear you? You do not know. Your statement is also another story.</p>
<p>Pañca-draviḍa: I am not a scientist.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. The scientists, if they say "There may be God," that means he's a rascal. Scientist means, whatever he will say, that is accurate. That is scientist. What is the difference between a layman and scientist? That is the difference. The scientist will say what is actual fact. That is scientist.</p>
<p>Pañca-draviḍa: They only accept...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is not scientist, that he..., "maybe, perhaps..." That is not scientist.</p>
<p>Pañca-draviḍa: Well, they only accept what they can confirm by experimentation.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That means their experiment is not perfect. Their observation is not perfect-vague idea. So how he can become a scientist? That is no scientist.</p>
<p>Pañca-draviḍa: What is the position of one who accepts God, that there is.... (break) (end)</p>
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