# Morning Walk [Partially Recorded] — May 16, 1971, Sydney <audio controls preload="metadata" src="https://media.prabhupada.io/audio/1971/710516MW-SYDNEY.mp3"></audio> **Prabhupāda:** ...stones shows that there was water. [break] Shape of the stone indicates that there was water fall. **Devotee:** One time though the ocean was this high. [break] **Prabhupāda:** Actually, before planet was covered with water. *Pralaya-payodhi-jale dhṛtavān asi vedam *[*Śrī Daśāvatāra Stotra* 1]. It's going down, water. Now the one fourth dried up, and gradually the remaining three fourths will be dried. There will be no water. **Devotee:** Is that when Kṛṣṇa incarnated as a fish? Was that on this planet? **Prabhupāda:** Yes, when there was *pralaya.* This is the way how creation carries on. [break] "...these Oriental people, we have to kill their culture." They followed the same policy in India. [break] ...lost. **Devotee:** [indistinct] is this? **Prabhupāda:** Very old? [break] ...there is any beach in the world. **Devotee:** It's like California little bit, but not so much anxiety. [break] **Prabhupāda:** So gradually the ocean water is also being dried up. It is evidenct that water was here. [break] Eating more? **Devotee:** Yes. **Prabhupāda:** We are also research scholars. Everything we are. [break] Suppose when the water was here. Here there was water. That's a fact. Then so much water reduced, again reduced, again reduced, again reduced, many thousands of years. [break] ...not by birth. [break] *Nāmācārya. Ācārya* for preaching name. [break] He wanted to preach the glories of name, but there are teachers with title. *Ācārya* title was given to Haridāsa because he was chanting daily, regularly. [break] beads. [end]