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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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<div class="heading">Take it for granted, different. What is the wrong there? After all, everyone is Kṛṣṇa's expansion. Ānanda cinmāyā-rasa-pratibhāvitābhiḥ (Bs. 5.37). We are also expansion.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- April 10, 1974, Bombay|Morning Walk -- April 10, 1974, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: ...yogic practice. So to save oneself from the influence of material laws. (break)</p>
<p>Girirāja: "...executed all religious principles. In this way you were able to cleanse your heart and control the influence of material law. In executing your austerities you used to eat only the leaves of the trees which fell to the ground." (break) ...takes birth in other planets are the same Devakī and Vasudeva, His parents?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Girirāja: Then how is it that after they gave birth to Kṛṣṇa this time they went back to Godhead?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What is the objection?</p>
<p>Girirāja: Well, according to the usual way of thinking, we think that if somebody if... Well, that doesn't apply in this case. (break)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: ...the universe, Kṛṣṇa may have another devotee like them. If there is another universe, why not another couple? There is everything another. Because we are limited, we want to make Kṛṣṇa always limited. How it can be? We should always remember Kṛṣṇa's inconceivable omnipotency. (break) ...know how many thousands of couple are there because Kṛṣṇa's, that birth is going on every moment. Therefore it is called nitya-līlā, in this universe immediately born, that that birth, that pastime, is again immediately manifested in another universe. He has grown old two days; so the same form again in another universe. The same example. Just like 6:30 AM on the sun, solar calculation, immediately in another country, 6:30 AM. Is it not?</p>
<p>Mahāṁsa: Yes.</p>
<p>Girirāja: (break) ...the position of being Kṛṣṇa's parents or hearing Bhagavad-gītā or being a cowherd boyfriend, can be filled by different living entities qualified in the different universes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: But that makes them sound like they are posts instead of individuals. I thought you once said that Arjuna, he always stays in the material universes. He's a person and he always travels with Kṛṣṇa, not that it's a post.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Everyone, all the associates of Kṛṣṇa, like Kṛṣṇa. (break)</p>
<p>Girirāja: Right now Kṛṣṇa is in so many different universes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Girirāja: And He is having the same pastimes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Girirāja: And in each universe there is an Arjuna.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Everything.</p>
<p>Girirāja: Everything. So is it the same living soul, Arjuna, in each universe, or a different living being may be taking that position?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Take it for granted, different. What is the wrong there? After all, everyone is Kṛṣṇa's expansion. Ānanda cinmāyā-rasa-pratibhāvitābhiḥ (Bs. 5.37). We are also expansion. (aside:) Hare Kṛṣṇa. But still, we have got individuality. Kṛṣṇa proved it—I explained that in Vṛndāvana when everything was stolen by Brahmā. Again another batch of cows and calves and cowherds boys. (aside:) Hare Kṛṣṇa. Immediately. What is the difficulty for Kṛṣṇa? Is it clear or not? You wanted to clarify. Is it clear or not?</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: Yes, you said the answer is that it's different persons, not just one Arjuna, not just one Yaśodā.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Just like I have got hundred branches. Each branch I have got a set of my sitting room, of my books and everything. And wherever I go I see the same place. If it is possible for an ordinary man to have a hundred sets of the same thing, why not for Kṛṣṇa?</p>
<p>Girirāja: So in each branch you have a different cook, different president, different treasurer...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But the set is there, what I want. The set is there.</p>
<p>Girirāja: Yes. Now in the case of Jaya and Vijaya, who fell down and took the role of demons, after three births as demons, they were supposed to go back to the spiritual world. So after the three births in this universe, were the same pastimes going on in other universes.?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, why not? Whenever Kṛṣṇa desires that He is to fight with somebody, another must prepare himself for fighting, becomes His enemy. Because in the Vaikuṇṭha world there is no chance of fighting, therefore He sends His devotees to become His enemy and there He fights.</p>
<p>Girirāja: So other living entities would play the part of Rāvaṇa in other universes?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Why not? Or any other way.</p>
<p>Mahāṁsa: We cannot actually conceive of all these things.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. The conclusion is that Kṛṣṇa being the reservoir of all pleasure, so the pleasure of fighting is there. So He can exhibit anywhere. (break) That is the understanding of Kṛṣṇa. As soon as we limit Kṛṣṇa like one of us, or little bigger than me, then I become doctor frog.</p>
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