Morning Walk — Melbourne, 1975
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- Not too many flowering varieties.
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- No, not speaking of flowering. I mean to say varieties, plants
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- and creepers, two millions. Laksa-vimsati. Ten lakhs equal to one million,
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- and vimsati, twenty lakhs.
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- There was one newspaper article in the paper I was reading.
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- They were advertising a new book about the evolution of man. And they were
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- saying that there was approximately two million varieties of life on this
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- planet. This was the calculation of the scientists.
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- Two millions? No, 8,400,000.
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- You were saying the other day that all the species of life are
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- mentioned in the Padma-Purana.
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- Yes.
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- They’re all given account of.
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- Only approximation.
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- An estimate. [break]
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- …a drawing of the so-called missing link between the
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- evolution from ape to man. They have given one drawing of a species looking
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- like a man but hunched like an ape. And they’re claiming this is…
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- Where they have got it?
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- …that this type of personality was existing millions of years
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- ago. [break]
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- Of the 400,000 human species, what is the distinguishing
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- characteristic that makes one different from another? How could we
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- recognize them, or could we?
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- You have not seen varieties of men?
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- Yes.
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- Then, what is the…
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- Well is it divided by country or within one country there are many species?
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- You are taking of country, but the sastra takes of the planets,
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- not of the country. Your idea is very crippled: country, national. But
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- sastra is not… There is no such thing as national. They take the whole
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- universe as a whole. They consider from that angle of vision. These
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- crippled ideas, “state,” “national,” has come later on. There was no such
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- thing previously. One planet or universe, like that. Just like last night
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- the girl was astonished that “How this planet can be governed by one
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- king?” It was being actually done. And the whole universe is being
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- governed by Brahma, one person. So one must know how to govern.
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- We can see, Srila Prabhupada, by the distribution of wealth
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- and minerals in each loka, in each planet, it is meant to be governed by
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- one ruler. One place there is gold, one place grain to grow. Is this true?
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- No. Everywhere there is everything, maybe proportionately in
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- different quantities.
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- Is that governing that Brahma does in the universe, he does
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- that in relationship with all the other demigods like they are
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- departmental heads? So he is not personally directing every single thing.
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- Yes, he is given in charge. Just like we have got different
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- GBC’s for different jobs. Similarly, they are doing their duty nicely. All
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- these planets are the different residential quarter of different demigods.
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- They are controlling the whole universal affairs. In comparison to them,
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- this human being is nothing.
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- Srila Prabhupada, if the human form is insignificant compared
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- to demigods, but still, it is very much desired, this human form of life,
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- even by the demigods?
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- Yes, because very good chance of realizing God in the human
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- form of life. Just like difference between Western countries and India.
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- India, a very quick chance of realization of God. The atmosphere is so
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- nice. So this planet is good for God realization, and the best place is in India.
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- Srila Prabhupada, you were saying yesterday that the rains, by
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- the rains all good things come, and the rains come because of good yajna.
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- So in this planet everybody is meat-eating, or in this country everybody
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- is performing sinful activities.
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- Therefore it is decreasing. The more you are becoming sinful,
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- the rain will decrease.
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- So it is decreasing now.
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- Yes. And at the end there will be no rain. Then this whole
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- planet will be ablaze with fire. That is the beginning of destruction.
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- If it rains heavily during daytime and at night you see the stars,
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- then you should know there will be scarcity of rain. There will be
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- scarcity of rain and scarcity of food grains. Best thing is at night there
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- must be heavy rain, and daytime, there should be sunshine. Then the field
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- will be very fertile.That is knowledge. But
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- they have no knowledge. They simply want to enjoy. They do not care for
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- death also. Simply sense gratification. That’s all. This is called danava,
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- danava life.
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- They were simply approximating. They said from recent
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- discoveries and examination of fossils and like this…
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- That’s all right.
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- …they made their calculation.
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- Why there are varieties?
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- They say originally there was just a cell, and by adaptation in
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- some circumstances, one kind would live and another would die. So all
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- these varieties adapted to different conditions.
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- Who adapted this? Who managed?
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- Well they just… accidentally.
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- Ah, that is nonsense. Nothing happens accidentally. That is
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- nonsense. There must be some arrangement. What is happening accidentally?
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- Why you are taking care of these trees? So many things. Nothing is done
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- accidentally. You do not see the cause. Why you are trying? Let
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- accidentally money come, and sit down. Why do they not do that? “If
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- accident is there, let accident come and I will become rich man.” Why they
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- try? Why they go to the college? Let accidentally you become M.A., Ph D.
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- This is all rascaldom, simply poor thought. Poor thought.
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- Activity plus sanction of God, two things. There are five
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- causes. The activity, the place, the proportion of energy, and ultimately,
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- sanction by God. Then things happen. Otherwise there is no question of accident.
Installation of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai — Melbourne, 1975
Departure — Melbourne, 1974