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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]]
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<div class="heading">Yes. Everywhere population. This is a new theory of the rascals that there was no civilization before three thousand years. This is wrong theory. Everything was there.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- May 16, 1975, Perth|Morning Walk -- May 16, 1975, Perth]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee (1): When Rāvaṇa was on the earth, was the whole earth populated, like Brazil and also the other parts of the world?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Everywhere population. This is a new theory of the rascals that there was no civilization before three thousand years. This is wrong theory. Everything was there.</p>
<p>Devotee (1): So when Mahārāja Yayāti banished his sons to those kingdoms, they were already populated there.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, yes.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: They seem to be pretty much kṣatriya races.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And during Kurukṣetra fight, all different kings joined, either to this party or that party.</p>
<p>Amogha: Oh, from all over the world.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: It was first-grade world war, Kurukṣetra. There is the one king, Śaibya, he came from Śibiya. Where is Śibiya?</p>
<p>Amogha: Siberia?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Śibiya.</p>
<p>Amogha: Oh, Śibiya? That's Africa.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, maybe there. There were... All the kings of the world, they joined, either this party or that party. Friends, friendly countries, they joined. Just like Kṛṣṇa. He personally joined Arjuna, but He gave His soldiers to Duryodhana. It was family war. So the friends divided, "I will join you." It was sporting. For the kṣatriya fighting is sporting. They have football match. They did not take it as enmities. Just in the evening they are friends. This party goes to that party, that party goes to... It is a decision, who will be king, that's all. Test of strength. Actually it was not enmity. "Let us fight, and who is strong he will be king, that's all."</p>
<p>Devotee (1): And the losers will go to the heavenly planets.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Anyone who dies in such fight, he goes to heavenly planet.</p>
<p>Devotee (1): So they were not afraid of dying.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, why? They knew. Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre ([[Vanisource:BG 2.20|BG 2.20]]). "I am not going to die after the annihilation of this body." It was a common understanding. Not that such a man, big man, director, he says, "No, no, I don't believe in the soul." (chuckles) Therefore I said the fourth-class man. In India still, even a common man, uneducated farmer, he believes. He believes. He believes in God. He believes in transmigration. He believes in his karma. These things which will take thousands of years to be learned by the Westerners, even the common man knows still.</p>
<p>Devotee (1): And all Kṛṣṇa's soldiers were killed?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Amogha: So Kṛṣṇa fought against His own soldiers also.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa did not fight.</p>
<p>Amogha: Oh, that's right.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He did not.</p>
<p>Amogha: But He led the fight.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He was chariot driver at the risk of being killed. The other party may kill the chariot driver to stop the progress of the enemy. They kill. They kill the horses, they kill the charioteer, then the person. So Kṛṣṇa took the risk of being killed. Bhīṣma attacked Him. He pierced His body with arrows.</p>
<p>Devotee (1): I think the tribes in South America, the Aztecs, they were also worshipers of the sun-god.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
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