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Life comes from Life – (Part 3)

The First Morning Walk

The First Morning Walk

Relativity and Knowledge

SRILA PRABHUPADA: All living entities possess the required intelligence to execute four principles: eating, sleeping, sexual intercourse and defence. These four principles exist even in the atom. The only difference in the human being is that he has extra intelligence with which to understand God. This is the difference. Ahara-nidra-bhaya-maithunam ca samanam etat pasubhir naranam. Eating, sleeping, sex life and defense are to be found everywhere. You have seen trees growing. Wherever there is a knot, the bark does not go this way; it goes that way. [Srila Prabhupada gestures to show that a tree’s bark grows not over a knot, but around it.] The tree has intelligence: “If I go this way, I will be blocked, so I will go that way.” But where are its eyes? How can it see? It has intelligence. That intelligence may not be as good as yours, but it is intelligence. Similarly, a child also has intelligence, though not as developed as his father’s. In due course of time, when the child gets a body like that of his father, the child’s intelligence will be fully developed and exhibited.

DR. SINGH: Then intelligence is relative.

SRILA PRABHUPADA: Yes. Everything is relative. You have your body, your duration of life, and your intelligence, and the ant has his. Both we and the ant live for one hundred years, but the length of our hundred-year life-span is relative to our bodies. Even Brahma, the longest-living entity in this universe, lives for one hundred years. To us the ant’s life-span may seem only a few days. In the same way, on the other planets with atmospheres different from the earth’s , there are life-forms suited to those conditions. But the scientists try to view everything according to the relative conditions of planet earth. This is nonsense. Why are they doing that? If the whole cosmic manifestation follows the law of relativity, how can the scientist say that the conditions of this planet must apply to life on the other planets?

The Vedas instruct us that knowledge must always be considered in terms of desa-kala-patra. Desa means “circumstances,” kala means “time,” and patra means “the object.” We must understand everything by taking these three elements into consideration. For example, a fish is living very comfortably in the water, and we are shivering on the shore of the sea. This is because my desa-kala-patra and the fish’s desa-kala-patra are different. But if we conclude that the sea gulls will also shiver in the water, that is nonsense; their desa-kala-patra is again different. There are 8,400,000 different species of life in the material cosmic manifestation, and each species must adjust to circumstances differently. Even on this planet, you cannot go live comfortably in Alaska, although it is America. Similarly, the living entities enjoying life in Alaska do not come here.

KARANDHARA: Relatively, then, is based upon our individual situation.

SRILA PRABHUPADA: Yes. Therefore it is said that what is food for one is poison for another.

BRAHMANANDA SVAMI: Because scientists cannot survive on the moon, they think no one else can.

One Extra Bedroom – Is it worth?







My wife refused to come back with me and my children refused to stay in India. My 2 children and returned to USA after promising my wife .I would be back for good after two years. Time passed by, my daughter decided to get married to an American and my son was happy living in USA. I decided that had enough and wound-up everything and returned to India. I had just enough money to buy a decent 02 bedroom flat in a well-developed locality.




Life comes from Life – (Part 2)

The First Morning Walk

The Universe in the Atom

SRILA PRABHUPADA: All matter is a combination of five gross elements (earth, water, fire, air and ether) and three subtle elements (mind, intelligence and false ego).

KARANDHARA: According to the Vedic science, material energy begins with the false ego and then develops into the intelligence, then the mind and then the gross elements – ether, air, fire and so on. So the same basic ingredients are present in all matter. Is this right?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: Yes. The creation of the material universe is like the growth of a great banyan tree from a tiny seed. No one can see the tree within the seed, but all the necessary ingredients for the tree are there, including the required intelligence. Actually, everyone’s body is simply a sample universe. Your body and my body are different universes, small universes. Therefore, all eight material elements are present within our bodies, just as they are within the whole universe. Similarly, an insect’s body is another universe.

KARANDHARA: How about the atom?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: The same formula applies: all these constituents are within the atom. Anor aniyan mahato mahiyan [Katha Upanisad 1.2.20]. This means that whether something is extremely large or infinitesimal, it is still made of same basic elements. This is true everywhere in the material world. Just as a woman’s small watch has all the requisite machinery for its smooth functioning, so an ant has all the necessary brain substance to manage its affairs nicely. How is this possible? To answer this properly, you must minutely examine the brain tissues in the ant. But this you cannot do. Moreover, there innumerable insects smaller than the ant. So there must be a mechanical arrangement for all this detailed activity, but scientists cannot discover it.

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