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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></div>
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<div id="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1973 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1973 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3></div>
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<div id="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1973 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1973 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="MorningWalkDecember201973LosAngeles_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="106" link="Morning Walk -- December 20, 1973, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- December 20, 1973, Los Angeles">
<div id="MorningWalkDecember201973LosAngeles_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="106" link="Morning Walk -- December 20, 1973, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- December 20, 1973, Los Angeles">
<div class="heading">We talk in relationship, everything, because this is relative world. Māyāvāda philosophy does not accept the relativity.</div>
<div class="heading">We talk in relationship, everything, because this is relative world. Māyāvāda philosophy does not accept the relativity.
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- December 20, 1973, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- December 20, 1973, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: ...that... We talk in relationship, everything, because this is relative world. Everything we talk, that is in relative consideration. That is Māyāvāda philosophy. They do not accept the relativity. Although when there is some toothache, he will go to the doctor. Why does he not..., "No, it is māyā. Why I shall be troubled with the toothache?" Why does he go to the doctor? That is the defect of Māyāvāda philosophy. They are being affected by the change, but still, they will say, "There is no change. It is all the same."</p></div>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- December 20, 1973, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- December 20, 1973, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: ...that... We talk in relationship, everything, because this is relative world. Everything we talk, that is in relative consideration. That is Māyāvāda philosophy. They do not accept the relativity. Although when there is some toothache, he will go to the doctor. Why does he not..., "No, it is māyā. Why I shall be troubled with the toothache?" Why does he go to the doctor? That is the defect of Māyāvāda philosophy. They are being affected by the change, but still, they will say, "There is no change. It is all the same."</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkDecember201973LosAngeles_1" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="106" link="Morning Walk -- December 20, 1973, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- December 20, 1973, Los Angeles">
<div class="heading">Just like the water jug is also earth, made of earth. It is earth. And this ground is also earth. But when you have to keep water you require this water jug, not this earth." That is relativity.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- December 20, 1973, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- December 20, 1973, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Just like the water jug is also earth, made of earth. It is earth. And this ground is also earth. But when you have to keep water you require this water jug, not this earth." That is relativity. If you have to take work, then you cannot say, "Well, this is also earth, this is also... Why...? The pot is not required. Put water here." Then you will suffer, no water. So this kind of philosophy was discussed when Caitanya Mahāprabhu was a child.</p>
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<div id="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1974 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1974 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="MorningWalkJanuary91974LosAngeles_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="5" link="Morning Walk -- January 9, 1974, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- January 9, 1974, Los Angeles">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- January 9, 1974, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- January 9, 1974, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Relativity, relativity, law of Relativity. What is, what is food for one is death for other, the same thing. So how you can say the food is good or bad? Is it not? "One man's food, another man's poison."</p>
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<div id="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="MorningWalkJune211975LosAngeles_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="104" link="Morning Walk -- June 21, 1975, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- June 21, 1975, Los Angeles">
<div class="heading">This is the relative world, and they are accepting this relativity. So how they can deny? As soon as you "temporary" say, you must accept there is eternity.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 21, 1975, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- June 21, 1975, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Bahulāśva: This Professor Stahl, he was saying that his experience is that everything is changing and temporary. So therefore he was thinking that that is the nature of all things, that they are temporary.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Temporary, this (indistinct). Why this "temporary" word has come into existence unless there is the opposite, "eternal"? Why do you use this word, "temporary"? When you say, "It is fraud," and there must be something as honesty. Otherwise, why this "fraud" has come? Hm? We say, "This is light"—means there is something as darkness. This is relative world. The Professor Einstein said relativity. This is relative: as soon as there is darkness, there must be light. Otherwise, how you understand light and darkness? So unless there is eternity, how do you bring this word, "temporary"? What is their answer?</p>
<p>Bahulāśva: They have no answer.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Unless there is father, there is no meaning of the word son. Unless there is husband, there is no meaning of the word wife. This is the relative world, and they are accepting this relativity. So how they can deny? As soon as you "temporary" say, you must accept there is eternity.</p>
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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 id="MorningWalkFebruary41976Mayapura_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="24" link="Morning Walk -- February 4, 1976, Mayapura" link_text="Morning Walk -- February 4, 1976, Mayapura">
<div class="heading">Suppose a small ant is on some big wheel, does it feel anything, movement? A big wheel and a small ant. What he will feel? This is called relativity.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- February 4, 1976, Mayapura|Morning Walk -- February 4, 1976, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Bhavānanda: Planet, this planet is moving so fast, but it doesn't appear to be moving at all.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Suppose a small ant is on some big wheel, does it feel anything, movement? A big wheel and a small ant. What he will feel? This is called relativity. Law of relativity. Why you are thinking that relatively you are very big? That is your foolishness. You are nothing, insignificant. Therefore you are surprised when Kṛṣṇa appeared as Varāha-mūrti, to take the whole earth on His nose. Who will say it is mythology? You do not know how great Kṛṣṇa can become.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkFebruary61976Mayapura_1" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="26" link="Morning Walk -- February 6, 1976, Mayapura" link_text="Morning Walk -- February 6, 1976, Mayapura">
<div class="heading">Higher and lower, this is all relativity.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- February 6, 1976, Mayapura|Morning Walk -- February 6, 1976, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Higher means it is higher for you because you are so dwarf. You are so dwarfed, you'll find that this tree is very big tree. You see? A small dwarf man, a pigmy, he'll say, "Oh, it is a big tree." So it is all relative. What is called? Relative world? Higher and lower, this is all relativity. You are so low that you see a tiny thing very high. It is due to your lowerness.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkJune71976LosAngeles_2" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="115" link="Morning Walk -- June 7, 1976, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- June 7, 1976, Los Angeles">
<div class="heading">Why should you bring your material ideas to the spiritual world? There is no relativity. Everything absolute.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 7, 1976, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- June 7, 1976, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: This is our disease. When we're talking of spiritual world, we are bringing material thoughts. To bring coal in Sheffield. What is called. Sheffield? There are many coal mines?</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: To bring coals to Newcastle.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, like that. Why should you bring your material ideas to the spiritual world? There is no relativity. Everything absolute.</p>
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<div id="Correspondence" class="section" sec_index="6" parent="compilation" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2>
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<div id="1967_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Correspondence" text="1967 Correspondence"><h3>1967 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoSubalaSanFrancisco16December1967_0" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="237" link="Letter to Subala -- San Francisco 16 December, 1967" link_text="Letter to Subala -- San Francisco 16 December, 1967">
<div class="heading">On the Absolute world there is no such relativities as a success and failure.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Subala -- San Francisco 16 December, 1967|Letter to Subala -- San Francisco 16 December, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Success or failure does not matter. On the Absolute world there is no such relativities as a success and failure. The one thing in the Absolute world is to serve Krishna. Don't care for the result. Krishna must know that we are working very seriously and that is our success of life.</p>
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<div id="1969_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Correspondence" text="1969 Correspondence"><h3>1969 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoCharlesMcColloughLosAngeles12February1969_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="114" link="Letter to Charles McCollough -- Los Angeles 12 February, 1969" link_text="Letter to Charles McCollough -- Los Angeles 12 February, 1969">
<div class="heading">In the material world there is the influence of past, present and future, and this past, present and future is a relative truth.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Charles McCollough -- Los Angeles 12 February, 1969|Letter to Charles McCollough -- Los Angeles 12 February, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding your question about time, time is eternal, but in the spiritual world, there is no influence of time. In the material world there is the influence of past, present and future, and this past, present and future is a relative truth. This is because the past of one man is not the past of another; past, present and future are relative to the person, and there are different grades of persons. For example, Brahma's day is calculated as thousands of our years. In one day of Brahma there are millions of our pasts, presents, and futures. So this is all relativity, whereas in the spiritual world, there is no such relativity. Therefore, time has no such influence in the spiritual world.</p>
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Latest revision as of 13:32, 5 October 2011

Conversations and Morning Walks

1973 Conversations and Morning Walks

We talk in relationship, everything, because this is relative world. Māyāvāda philosophy does not accept the relativity.
Morning Walk -- December 20, 1973, Los Angeles:

Prabhupāda: ...that... We talk in relationship, everything, because this is relative world. Everything we talk, that is in relative consideration. That is Māyāvāda philosophy. They do not accept the relativity. Although when there is some toothache, he will go to the doctor. Why does he not..., "No, it is māyā. Why I shall be troubled with the toothache?" Why does he go to the doctor? That is the defect of Māyāvāda philosophy. They are being affected by the change, but still, they will say, "There is no change. It is all the same."

Just like the water jug is also earth, made of earth. It is earth. And this ground is also earth. But when you have to keep water you require this water jug, not this earth." That is relativity.
Morning Walk -- December 20, 1973, Los Angeles:

Prabhupāda: Just like the water jug is also earth, made of earth. It is earth. And this ground is also earth. But when you have to keep water you require this water jug, not this earth." That is relativity. If you have to take work, then you cannot say, "Well, this is also earth, this is also... Why...? The pot is not required. Put water here." Then you will suffer, no water. So this kind of philosophy was discussed when Caitanya Mahāprabhu was a child.

1974 Conversations and Morning Walks

Morning Walk -- January 9, 1974, Los Angeles:

Prabhupāda: Relativity, relativity, law of Relativity. What is, what is food for one is death for other, the same thing. So how you can say the food is good or bad? Is it not? "One man's food, another man's poison."

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

This is the relative world, and they are accepting this relativity. So how they can deny? As soon as you "temporary" say, you must accept there is eternity.
Morning Walk -- June 21, 1975, Los Angeles:

Bahulāśva: This Professor Stahl, he was saying that his experience is that everything is changing and temporary. So therefore he was thinking that that is the nature of all things, that they are temporary.

Prabhupāda: Temporary, this (indistinct). Why this "temporary" word has come into existence unless there is the opposite, "eternal"? Why do you use this word, "temporary"? When you say, "It is fraud," and there must be something as honesty. Otherwise, why this "fraud" has come? Hm? We say, "This is light"—means there is something as darkness. This is relative world. The Professor Einstein said relativity. This is relative: as soon as there is darkness, there must be light. Otherwise, how you understand light and darkness? So unless there is eternity, how do you bring this word, "temporary"? What is their answer?

Bahulāśva: They have no answer.

Prabhupāda: Unless there is father, there is no meaning of the word son. Unless there is husband, there is no meaning of the word wife. This is the relative world, and they are accepting this relativity. So how they can deny? As soon as you "temporary" say, you must accept there is eternity.

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

Suppose a small ant is on some big wheel, does it feel anything, movement? A big wheel and a small ant. What he will feel? This is called relativity.
Morning Walk -- February 4, 1976, Mayapura:

Bhavānanda: Planet, this planet is moving so fast, but it doesn't appear to be moving at all.

Prabhupāda: Suppose a small ant is on some big wheel, does it feel anything, movement? A big wheel and a small ant. What he will feel? This is called relativity. Law of relativity. Why you are thinking that relatively you are very big? That is your foolishness. You are nothing, insignificant. Therefore you are surprised when Kṛṣṇa appeared as Varāha-mūrti, to take the whole earth on His nose. Who will say it is mythology? You do not know how great Kṛṣṇa can become.

Higher and lower, this is all relativity.
Morning Walk -- February 6, 1976, Mayapura:

Prabhupāda: Higher means it is higher for you because you are so dwarf. You are so dwarfed, you'll find that this tree is very big tree. You see? A small dwarf man, a pigmy, he'll say, "Oh, it is a big tree." So it is all relative. What is called? Relative world? Higher and lower, this is all relativity. You are so low that you see a tiny thing very high. It is due to your lowerness.

Why should you bring your material ideas to the spiritual world? There is no relativity. Everything absolute.
Morning Walk -- June 7, 1976, Los Angeles:

Prabhupāda: This is our disease. When we're talking of spiritual world, we are bringing material thoughts. To bring coal in Sheffield. What is called. Sheffield? There are many coal mines?

Hari-śauri: To bring coals to Newcastle.

Prabhupāda: Yes, like that. Why should you bring your material ideas to the spiritual world? There is no relativity. Everything absolute.

Correspondence

1967 Correspondence

On the Absolute world there is no such relativities as a success and failure.
Letter to Subala -- San Francisco 16 December, 1967:

Success or failure does not matter. On the Absolute world there is no such relativities as a success and failure. The one thing in the Absolute world is to serve Krishna. Don't care for the result. Krishna must know that we are working very seriously and that is our success of life.

1969 Correspondence

In the material world there is the influence of past, present and future, and this past, present and future is a relative truth.
Letter to Charles McCollough -- Los Angeles 12 February, 1969:

Regarding your question about time, time is eternal, but in the spiritual world, there is no influence of time. In the material world there is the influence of past, present and future, and this past, present and future is a relative truth. This is because the past of one man is not the past of another; past, present and future are relative to the person, and there are different grades of persons. For example, Brahma's day is calculated as thousands of our years. In one day of Brahma there are millions of our pasts, presents, and futures. So this is all relativity, whereas in the spiritual world, there is no such relativity. Therefore, time has no such influence in the spiritual world.

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