Pañca-draviḍa: What is the Vedic explanation, Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: Vedic explanation is that moon is not going round the earthly planet. (break)
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: This is very revolutionary thought.
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Because children all over the world in schools, they're taught simply that the moon is going around the earth. They shouldn't question it.
Prabhupāda: Oh, they say, "You should not question"?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: No, should not question it. It's taken as fact.
Prabhupāda: My point is: if the moon is going round the earth, beginning from here to there, similarly, the sun is also going around earth, because we see the similar way, it is rising and going that way. So how you can say one is fixed, one is standing? The process, we find the same. How you can say that this is fixed and this is going around? Why is...? If the process is the same, then the result will be the same.
Hari-śauri: (break) .... accepted the sun was moving, then they wouldn't be able to prove that...
Prabhupāda: And the.... And the moon is not seen also for fifteen days in the morning (month?). As a layman, we should say that, as the moon is rising from this side and going to this side, the sun is also rising from this side. So if the moon is moving, the sun is moving.
Pañca-draviḍa: If that's true, then how does.... What about the changes in the moon's face? Sometimes...
Prabhupāda: True or nontrue, I am layman. I am saying that if the moon is rising from this side and going to this side, so sun is also rising from this side and going to this side. So if the moon is moving, the sun is moving.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Common sense.
Prabhupāda: Huh? Yes, I am a layman. Actually sun is moving, but they say fixed up.
Pañca-draviḍa: (break) ...moving the same, though, the moon would always appear full, and it goes through changes, or phases.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Why it, the moon is...?
Jayapatākā: (break) They say that everything is moving. Both the earth is moving, sun is moving and the moon is moving, but everything has got its own time. Moon is moving once around in twenty-eight days, and our earth is moving around in 365 days, and sun is also moving in its own time.
Prabhupāda: But they say sun, fixed up.
Jayapatākā: No, they don't say fixed up.
Pañca-draviḍa: They say there's a point called the galactic center of the universe, and everything is moving around that point.
Trivikrama: They say like that.
Prabhupāda: So what is that center?
Jayapatākā: That they can't find out.
Balavanta: Somewhere near the sun. They've just imagined it. It's close to the sun, but not exactly the sun. It's the center, they say.
Prabhupāda: So our Bhāgavata says the whole planetary system is moving like this.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Centering the polestar.
Jayapatākā: They admit that there's some center of the universe. Everything is going around that, including the sun. But they don't know exactly where it is.
Prabhupāda: That is polestar.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: No, that's admitted, that the polestar, the stars are revolving around, everything. They take photographs.