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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]]
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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="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Yes. Sadā tad-bhāva-bhāvitaḥ (BG 8.6). As you are thinking always, so you are creating your next body.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Svarupa Damodara -- March 1, 1975, Atlanta|Room Conversation with Svarupa Damodara -- March 1, 1975, Atlanta]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: The question that Mādhava was raising that came up in the questions that all the forms of these living entities which... All the species, their forms, their gross forms...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is coming from mind.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes, whether that has come all of a sudden.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No all of a sudden.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Or is it by gradual evolution from...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Sadā tad-bhāva-bhāvitaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 8.6|BG 8.6]]). As you are thinking always, so you are creating your next body.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: That still is not the answer. What we want is, at the time of creation of the material world, when all the species, 8,400,000 species...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: They are all simultaneously manifested, just at once?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, yes. But they are not manifested yet. Because it was like sleeping. When there is no creation and..., there is sleeping stage. Just like in the sleeping stage, even at the present moment, at night, the dog is sleeping, the bird is sleeping, the man is sleeping, the tiger is... Everyone is sleeping at night. But in the morning, as soon as they awake, they understand, "I am tiger," "I am dog," "I am man," "I am this," "I am that." Everyone remembers that "I have to do this. I have to do that. I have to go there. I have to bring money from there." All duties come immediately. So all these living creatures who are sleeping at night, but when there is morning, they again become the same. That is creation.</p>
<p>Rūpānuga: But when Brahmā creates, does he first of all create the aquatics, then the plants?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No.</p>
<p>Rūpānuga: No, everything is at once. There's no gradual, it is all immediate.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: There is a process, from aquatics to this, this, this, this, but when there is creation, all of them come at once.</p>
<p>Rūpānuga: So that process is transmigration of the soul.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, yes.</p>
<p>Rūpānuga: That is evolution.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So in the last creation, if somebody could not come to the human form of body, now again he will be able to come. Therefore the creation is there. Another chance is given.</p>
<p>Rūpānuga: Yes. Otherwise there would be no chance.</p>
<p>Dr. Wolf: Śrīla Prabhupāda, there is the idea that matter comes from life.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Life, yes.</p>
<p>Dr. Wolf: I do not quite see how. I do not quite understand how matter can come from life.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Just like a man, a mechanic, was sleeping, and as soon as he awakes, he again begins to manufacture motorcar. In the sleeping stage he was doing nothing. But awakened state, he begins his work. So therefore he is living being, and the motorcar comes from him, not that the motorcar was sleeping. He was sleeping, the living entity.</p>
<p>Dr. Wolf: Can one assume that matter is a kind of energy?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, matter is also energy of God.</p>
<p>Dr. Wolf: But which of the three types of energy does matter come from?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Matter, material.</p>
<p>Dr. Wolf: The material energy.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. In the material world there is question of matter and spirit. In the spiritual world simply everything is spiritual.</p>
<p>Dr. Wolf: Can we assume that energy itself, all three types of energy, are related to life?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Dr. Wolf: They emanate from life.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: From Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa says, ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ. Find out this verse. Ahaṁ sarvasya. Sarvasya means both matter and spirit. (Prabhupāda gets up and begins to leave room)</p>
<p>Rūpānuga: We had some... Can we get you something, Śrīla Prabhupāda? Do you want something?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, I am going for...</p>
:ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo
:mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate
:iti matvā bhajante māṁ
:budhā bhāva-samanvitaḥ
:([[Vanisource:BG 10.8|BG 10.8]])
<p>(Leaves room)</p>
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