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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1974]]
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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 id="RoomConversationwithMrTranvanKhaandPresidentMembersoftheSocietyofBuddhistsinFranceJune151974Paris_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="118" link="Room Conversation with Mr. Tran-van-Kha, and President &amp; Members of the Society of Buddhists in France -- June 15, 1974, Paris" link_text="Room Conversation with Mr. Tran-van-Kha, and President &amp; Members of the Society of Buddhists in France -- June 15, 1974, Paris">
<div class="heading">Yes, 5,000 years ago... This is now. Before that, this was spoken some millions of years ago to the Sun-god. You find out that verse, imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān aham avyayam (BG 4.1).
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Mr. Tran-van-Kha, and President &amp; Members of the Society of Buddhists in France -- June 15, 1974, Paris|Room Conversation with Mr. Tran-van-Kha, and President &amp; Members of the Society of Buddhists in France -- June 15, 1974, Paris]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Yogeśvara: Sylvie (?) has a question.</p>
<p>Lady (2): I want to ask you. What does it (indistinct) when you, when there's talk of this religion of Kṛṣṇa. Is it before Christ or more?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hmm?</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: This, the question of religion, did it come before Christ or before Buddha?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, 5,000 years ago.</p>
<p>Lady (2): Yes, before.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: 5,000 years.</p>
<p>Pṛthu Putra: (translates into French)</p>
<p>Lady (2): 5,000 years, eh?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: This is now. Before that, this was spoken some millions of years ago to the Sun-god. You find out that verse, imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān aham avyayam ([[Vanisource:BG 4.1|BG 4.1]]).</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: Four, one.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa-kṛṣṇa: Fourth Chapter.</p>
<p>Pṛthu Putra:</p>
:śrī bhagavān uvāca
:imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ
:proktavān aham avyayam
:vivasvān manave prāha
:manur ikṣvākave 'bravīt
:([[Vanisource:BG 4.1|BG 4.1]])
<p>(French)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So, if you take the calculation of Manu, Manu lives for 72,000 of yugas. One yuga is 4,300,000 of years.</p>
<p>Pṛthu Putra: (French)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: 4,300,000 years, one yuga.</p>
<p>Pṛthu Putra: (French)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Multiply by 72. So that is the age of Manu. So, at least so many years before, Bhagavad-gītā was spoken to Manu's father, Sūrya. Sūrya, the Sun-god.</p>
<p>Pṛthu Putra: (French)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Sun-god. So how many millions?</p>
<p>Puṣṭa-kṛṣṇa: About 120,000,000 years ago.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Pṛthu Putra: (French)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So this philosophy was spoken 300 millions of years ago. And then again, He spoke 5,000 years ago. This is the history of Bhagavad-gītā.</p>
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