# Morning Walks, Melbourne, 1975 **Location:** Melbourne (1975) **Duration:** 13:02 <div class="video-container" style="position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%;"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Fb_OdBKTNB0" style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; pointer-events: auto; z-index: 10;" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb_OdBKTNB0) --- ## Transcript **[10:01]** Not too many flowering varieties. **[10:01]** No, not speaking of flowering. I mean to say varieties, plants **[10:01]** and creepers, two millions. Laksa-vimsati. Ten lakhs equal to one million, **[10:01]** and vimsati, twenty lakhs. **[10:01]** There was one newspaper article in the paper I was reading. **[10:01]** They were advertising a new book about the evolution of man. And they were **[10:01]** saying that there was approximately two million varieties of life on this **[10:01]** planet. This was the calculation of the scientists. **[10:01]** Two millions? No, 8,400,000. **[10:01]** You were saying the other day that all the species of life are **[10:01]** mentioned in the Padma-Purana. **[10:01]** Yes. **[10:01]** They're all given account of. **[10:01]** Only approximation. **[10:01]** An estimate. [break] **[10:01]** ...a drawing of the so-called missing link between the **[10:01]** evolution from ape to man. They have given one drawing of a species looking **[10:01]** like a man but hunched like an ape. And they're claiming this is... **[10:01]** Where they have got it? **[10:01]** ...that this type of personality was existing millions of years **[10:01]** ago. [break] **[10:01]** Of the 400,000 human species, what is the distinguishing **[10:01]** characteristic that makes one different from another? How could we **[10:01]** recognize them, or could we? **[10:01]** You have not seen varieties of men? **[10:01]** Yes. **[10:01]** Then, what is the... **[10:01]** Well is it divided by country or within one country there are many species? **[10:01]** You are taking of country, but the sastra takes of the planets, **[10:01]** not of the country. Your idea is very crippled: country, national. But **[10:01]** sastra is not... There is no such thing as national. They take the whole **[10:01]** universe as a whole. They consider from that angle of vision. These **[10:01]** crippled ideas, "state," "national," has come later on. There was no such **[10:01]** thing previously. One planet or universe, like that. Just like last night **[10:01]** the girl was astonished that "How this planet can be governed by one **[10:01]** king?" It was being actually done. And the whole universe is being **[10:01]** governed by Brahma, one person. So one must know how to govern. **[10:01]** We can see, Srila Prabhupada, by the distribution of wealth **[10:01]** and minerals in each loka, in each planet, it is meant to be governed by **[10:01]** one ruler. One place there is gold, one place grain to grow. Is this true? **[10:01]** No. Everywhere there is everything, maybe proportionately in **[10:01]** different quantities. **[10:01]** Is that governing that Brahma does in the universe, he does **[10:01]** that in relationship with all the other demigods like they are **[10:01]** departmental heads? So he is not personally directing every single thing. **[10:01]** Yes, he is given in charge. Just like we have got different **[10:01]** GBC's for different jobs. Similarly, they are doing their duty nicely. All **[10:01]** these planets are the different residential quarter of different demigods. **[10:01]** They are controlling the whole universal affairs. In comparison to them, **[10:01]** this human being is nothing. **[10:01]** Srila Prabhupada, if the human form is insignificant compared **[10:01]** to demigods, but still, it is very much desired, this human form of life, **[10:01]** even by the demigods? **[10:01]** Yes, because very good chance of realizing God in the human **[10:01]** form of life. Just like difference between Western countries and India. **[10:01]** India, a very quick chance of realization of God. The atmosphere is so **[10:01]** nice. So this planet is good for God realization, and the best place is in India. **[10:01]** Srila Prabhupada, you were saying yesterday that the rains, by **[10:01]** the rains all good things come, and the rains come because of good yajna. **[10:01]** So in this planet everybody is meat-eating, or in this country everybody **[10:01]** is performing sinful activities. **[10:01]** Therefore it is decreasing. The more you are becoming sinful, **[10:01]** the rain will decrease. **[10:01]** So it is decreasing now. **[10:01]** Yes. And at the end there will be no rain. Then this whole **[10:01]** planet will be ablaze with fire. That is the beginning of destruction. **[10:01]** If it rains heavily during daytime and at night you see the stars, **[10:01]** then you should know there will be scarcity of rain. There will be **[10:01]** scarcity of rain and scarcity of food grains. Best thing is at night there **[10:01]** must be heavy rain, and daytime, there should be sunshine. Then the field **[10:01]** will be very fertile.That is knowledge. But **[10:01]** they have no knowledge. They simply want to enjoy. They do not care for **[10:01]** death also. Simply sense gratification. That's all. This is called danava, **[10:01]** danava life. **[10:01]** They were simply approximating. They said from recent **[10:01]** discoveries and examination of fossils and like this... **[10:01]** That's all right. **[10:01]** ...they made their calculation. **[10:01]** Why there are varieties? **[10:01]** They say originally there was just a cell, and by adaptation in **[10:01]** some circumstances, one kind would live and another would die. So all **[10:01]** these varieties adapted to different conditions. **[10:01]** Who adapted this? Who managed? **[10:01]** Well they just... accidentally. **[10:01]** Ah, that is nonsense. Nothing happens accidentally. That is **[10:01]** nonsense. There must be some arrangement. What is happening accidentally? **[10:01]** Why you are taking care of these trees? So many things. Nothing is done **[10:01]** accidentally. You do not see the cause. Why you are trying? Let **[10:01]** accidentally money come, and sit down. Why do they not do that? "If **[10:01]** accident is there, let accident come and I will become rich man." Why they **[10:01]** try? Why they go to the college? Let accidentally you become M.A., Ph D. **[10:01]** This is all rascaldom, simply poor thought. Poor thought. **[10:01]** Activity plus sanction of God, two things. There are five **[10:01]** causes. The activity, the place, the proportion of energy, and ultimately, **[10:01]** sanction by God. Then things happen. Otherwise there is no question of accident.