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Is the earth also spinning?... Or is it simply the sun's movements that causes the day and night, everything?

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"Is the earth also spinning" |"Or is it simply the sun's movements that causes the day and night, everything"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

No planet is fixed except the sun. All are fixed up. But the whole thing is moving. That is Bhāgavatam. And that you can see at night.
Morning Walk -- March 18, 1976, Mayapura:

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda?

Prabhupāda: Hm?

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Is the earth also spinning?

Prabhupāda: No.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Or is it simply the sun's movements that causes the day and night, everything?

Prabhupāda: No planet is fixed except the sun. All are fixed up. But the whole thing is moving. That is Bhāgavatam. And that you can see at night.

Gurudāsa: What'd he say?

Pañca-draviḍa: No planet is fixed. The earth and sun, they're all moving.

Gurudāsa: The sun is fixed.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, but they're all moving.

Hari-śauri: But they're all moving.

Prabhupāda: It is like a tree, just like this. This is moving, and the sun is moving, and all other planets, they are fixed.

Hari-śauri: How is it we see the moon coming in every day, then?

Prabhupāda: Hm?

Hari-śauri: How is it that we see the moon moving?

Prabhupāda: Moon, that is..., of course, I do not remember, but (laughs) the whole planetary system is moving.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And the sun is fixed, but the whole, it's also moving.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Sun is also moving.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Everything is revolving around that polestar?

Prabhupāda: Hm.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes.

Jayapatākā: Everything is moving around the sun, and the sun is moving around the polestar.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: No. Everything is not moving around the sun.

Hari-śauri: Like that tree, if the tree revolves by itself, like that, then the sun(?) is going around the whole thing.

Prabhupāda: This is also another intelligent.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yes.

Hari-śauri: The tree is just moving like that, and the different branches, they remain in the same position in relationship to the center of the tree.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: But the sun has it's own...

Hari-śauri: But the sun has an orbit around the whole thing...

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: It's own course.

Hari-śauri: So the whole universe moves around. Every twenty-four hours it does one rotation. And then the sun is also round all that.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Every twenty-four hours?

Prabhupāda: The moon.

Gurudāsa: Acintya-bhedābheda-tattva.

Prabhupāda: Eh?

Gurudāsa: It seems to be one and different simultaneously.

Prabhupāda: No, no, not like that point. (laughs)

Page Title:Is the earth also spinning?... Or is it simply the sun's movements that causes the day and night, everything?
Compiler:Marc, Rishab
Created:15 of Aug, 2011
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1