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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1974]]
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1974 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1974 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- April 6, 1974, Bombay|Morning Walk -- April 6, 1974, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Girirāja: "In these Western countries when someone sees the cover of a book like Kṛṣṇa, he immediately asks, 'Who is Kṛṣṇa? Who is the girl with Kṛṣṇa?' and so on." (break)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: ...Kṛṣṇa is all-attractive or God is all-attractive. This definition given by Parāśara Muni is a supreme perfect definition. Unless God is attractive, how He can be God? This argument, what do you think?</p>
<p>Devotee: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So Kṛṣṇa showed this attractiveness in full. (break) ...any question you can ask. (break)</p>
<p>Bhāgavata: ...expansion or incarnation has the six opulences in full except for Kṛṣṇa?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. Kṛṣṇa is cent percent. Next to Kṛṣṇa is Nārāyaṇa. Next to Nārāyaṇa is Lord Śiva.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: Lord Caitanya did not manifest so much opulence as Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, Lord Caitanya appeared as a devotee. How He can show the opulence of Kṛṣṇa? Sometimes He showed. But He was playing the part, bhaktākhyaṁ bhaktāvatāraṁ namāmi bhakta-śaktikam.</p>
<p>Bhāgavata: Some of the different incarnations, though, they manifest one of the different opulences or two, like that, isn't it?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. All the opulences, not in full.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: So what opulence does Kṛṣṇa have that Nārāyaṇa doesn't have? Those four but, what of the six.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: The attraction by playing flute, and the rāsa dance. In this way there are four principles. That is mentioned in the Caitanya caritamrta.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: But otherwise Nārāyaṇa has all the six opulences.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Super-excellent opulence in Kṛṣṇa, by His veṇuṁ kvaṇantam aravinda-dalāyatākṣam (Bs. 5.30). That attraction is only in Kṛṣṇa. (break) ...scientist, we say the same thing.</p>
<p>Bhāgavata: Yes. He has spent his whole life, twenty-five years, studying so hard.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: When he said this?</p>
<p>Bhāgavata: In 1972. His name is Professor Leakey. He is from, I think, America. And he has found in Kenya one skull two million years old. (break)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. When our book was published?</p>
<p>Girirāja: This was in about seventy...</p>
<p>Bhāgavata: 1970 it came out.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (break) ...you discover.</p>
<p>Girirāja: March 31st, 1970.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So? (break) ...civilization.</p>
<p>Bhāgavata: You are giving all the information, cent percent.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (break) ...win's theory is that from that lower animals to go to the higher animals, but in the creation we find Brahmā is the first creation. So he is the topmost intelligent man.</p>
<p>Bhāgavata: Is there anything in the Vedic literature which supports Darwin's theory?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Not Darwin's theory. Darwin's theory is no explanation that whose evolution? Evolution is of the soul. The soul is changing in different bodies, one body better than the other. That kind of evolution.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: Darwin has no individual evolution, but the evolution of a species, like, they say, there were horses. And then when they had eaten up all the food on the ground, so they started to get the food on the trees. So their necks became longer. And those with longer necks lived, and the others died. So then there were the giraffes. So they moved like that. "Survival of the fittest." That's his theory. Then the more intelligent animals will live more than the less intelligent. So they will die out and then they will be up to the human. But that doesn't explain why there are still lower species of life, that why are there still animals?</p>
<p>Girirāja: (reads) "...we are given the histories of Kṛṣṇa's appearances and disappearances millions and billions of years ago. In the Fourth Chapter of the Bhagavad-gītā, Kṛṣṇa tells Arjuna that both he and Arjuna had many births before, and that He, Kṛṣṇa, could remember all of them and that Arjuna could not. This illustrates the difference between the knowledge of Kṛṣṇa and that of Arjuna. Arjuna might have been a very great warrior, a well-cultured member of the Kuru dynasty..." (break)</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: In the last part of Kṛṣṇa Book, Mahā-Viṣṇu says that Arjuna is of the capacity of Nara-nārāyaṇa. So they are avatāras also.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, yes.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: But as Arjuna he acts as an ordinary jīva?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, there are different types of śaktyāveṣa avatāra. So when an ordinary jīva is specially empowered, he is called śaktya aveṣa avatāra, śatktyaveṣa avatāra, vibhūti. Yad yad vibhūtimat sattvam. He is living entity, but especially empowered. Just like for certain business I give sometimes somebody power of attorney, that "He will do this. He will sign for me." Like that. He is also one of the disciples, but for particular purpose, he is given the power of attorney. In this way when a living entity is empowered specifically to do something, that is called śaktyāveṣa avatāra. Aveṣa avatāra. Kṛṣṇa śakti vinā nāhe nāma pracāra. That is explained in the... These are explained in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta. (break) ...śaktya. Mama tejo-'ṁśa-sambhavam. So śaktyāveṣa avatāra is not viṣṇu-tattva. He is jīva-tattva. So the Lord Jesus Christ or Lord Buddha, they come within the jīva-tattva especial power.</p>
<p>Bhāgavata: They are śaktyāveṣa avatāras.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: So Nara-nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi is which?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Nara-nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi was a ṣaktyāveṣa avatāra.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: So Arjuna has no constitutional connection with them, but at that time he was equal, by deputed potency. But they are individuals.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, Arjuna is also... Yes, equal to Nara-nārāyaṇa. (break) ...as Nara-nārāyaṇa. Somewhere, I think.</p>
<p>Girirāja: (reads) "Kṛṣṇa's knowledge is so perfect that He remembers all the incidences of His appearances some millions and billions of years in the past. But Arjuna's memory and knowledge are limited by time and space, for he is an ordinary human being." (break)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: ...Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa did not become God by the so-called meditation or mystic power. He has already all this yogeśvara. All mystic powers are already there. (break) ...that man?</p>
<p>Girirāja: Does he also appear through Mahā-Viṣṇu? When Kṛṣṇa appears, it says that...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. He appeared through Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu.</p>
<p>Girirāja: Oh.</p>
<p>Bhāgavata: But He's still the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He appeared... Just like Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He appeared through Yaśodā, I mean Śacīmata. That does not mean that He has appeared through... The sun rises from the eastern side. It does not mean the eastern side is producing sun. (break)</p>
<p>Yaśomatīnandana: When Kṛṣṇa appeared He could assume any other incarnation's form, Lord Rāmacandra, Lord Varāha.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Yaśomatīnandana: But Lord Rāmacandra could not assume Lord Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. Lord Rāmacandra also can do. They are all full powerful.</p>
<p>Bhāgavata: Oh, Rāmacandra is full opulence.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh yes, but Rāmacandra's full opulence was not exhibited. There was no necessity. But it is not that He could not. Yes.</p>
<p>Girirāja: So at the end of the Kṛṣṇa Book, when Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna visit Lord Viṣṇu and Viṣṇu calls them incarnations of Himself, that is because Kṛṣṇa appeared through Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. This is acintya-bhedābheda, simultaneously one and different. (break) ...covering of the universe. There are seven coverings. Each covering is ten times bigger than the one. Again, the seven elements...</p>
<p>Girirāja: So at night when we look up, everything that we see is within this universe.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, within this universe, yes. And there are innumerable universes.</p>
<p>Girirāja: "And beyond that non-manifested matter there is the spiritual kingdom. That kingdom is described in the Bhagavad-gītā as supreme and eternal. It is never annihilated. This material nature is subjected..." (break)</p>
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