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Srila Prabhupada, what is your explanation why the sun changes colors?

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"Srila Prabhupada, what is your explanation why the sun changes colors"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

Sun is moving. You are seeing through some color. Then it is color.
Morning Walk -- February 6, 1976, Mayapura:

Jagadīśa: Śrīla Prabhupāda, what is your explanation why the sun changes colors?

Prabhupāda: Hm?

Jagadīśa: What is your explanation as to why the sun changes colors?

Prabhupāda: Sun is moving. You are seeing through some color. Then it is color.

Jagadīśa: Seeing through some color.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Just like there are... In your window there is glass, red. So sun is passing; you say sun red. And again it has come; it is white. That is our...

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So the scientists say the same thing except they say that the earth is moving, not the sun. Same explanation you have given for the colors, they give, except that they say that the earth that is moving, not the sun. They wouldn't accept that point as a proof that the sun is moving.

Prabhupāda: No, sun is moving because the earth and the sun... The distance is the same, but you can calculate the distance from the rising up to the... It is millions, millions of miles. So unless the sun is moving, the earth cannot move so swiftly.

Page Title:Srila Prabhupada, what is your explanation why the sun changes colors?
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