Morning Walk — Melbourne, 1975

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[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.