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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
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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="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">No. Vedic understanding means there is no different Vedic version.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Reporter -- June 4, 1976, Los Angeles|Room Conversation with Reporter -- June 4, 1976, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Why this arrangement: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday? There is some system. The system is, just like first, second, third, fourth. So it is naturally concluded the moon planet is next to the sun planet.</p>
<p>Reporter: Do you feel—maybe you answered this, but I didn't understand the answer—do you feel that astronauts did land somewhere, but it was some other planet?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That may be. Or it may not be also.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What about that sometimes people ask us what about the pictures of man on the moon?</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: They show man in a spacesuit walking on some other planet.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is also, what is called, argumentative. Somebody says it is arbitrary arrangement.</p>
<p>Reporter: Hm. Laboratory.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Of course, we do not go into the details of this. My question is that why Sunday first and Monday second? Nobody can apli..., replies.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Prabhupāda once also argued that the dust, the dirt that they brought back, it did not reflect any light, but the moon is always reflecting light. So it was a different substance than what must be on the moon surface.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Now, according to our Vedic scripture, Moon is one of the heavenly planets.</p>
<p>Reporter: Are there any other Vedic scriptures that you believe speak to a situation that is greatly misunderstood today besides this?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. Vedic understanding means there is no different Vedic version.</p>
<p>Reporter: But do people, say another example where what you hold is very different from what the rest of society holds, is there something else that would be...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. Why...</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: No, he means, Prabhupāda, that just like modern man is thinking that they went to the moon, and our Vedic scripture says they didn't, so he's asking are there any other controversies, just like reincarnation, transmigration...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, so far Vedic students are concerned, there are no controversies.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: But from what the modern man believes there may be some differences.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Modern man believes, that's all right, but...</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: That's what his question is.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Our, our basic knowledge is on the Vedic principle. That whatever.... Just like we are explaining now, veda-vihito dharmaḥ. We have to understand everything from the Vedas, from this Vedic knowledge. So anything which does not speak acc.... in terms of the Vedic formula, we do not accept such knowledge as valid.</p>
<p>Reporter: OK.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But practically you are seeing that. But...</p>
<p>Reporter: Would you accept conclusions from science that..., only if it agreed with the Vedic scriptures?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: First of all.... As you say science. What do you mean by science? Can you explain?</p>
<p>Reporter: Well, what the..., the best conclusions of the best people in science.</p>
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