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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
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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">There is no need of eating, but if they like, they can eat, enjoy.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 7, 1976, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- June 7, 1976, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rāmeśvara: (break) ...by the devotees, is that in the spiritual world every day is feasting.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And there is no fasting. Fasting is recommended when a man is diseased. When he's in health, there is feasting. So spiritual world means health. Why there should be fasting?</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: And our disease is uncontrolled senses.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: There is no sense agitation.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: No, for us though, conditioned.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, conditioned. Śūnyāyitaṁ jagat sarvam.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: (break) In Caitanya-caritāmṛta you wrote that the kalpa-vṛkṣa trees, they move, they are not stationary.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They are spiritual.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Is this true for the plants and flowers?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Everything. Everything. They are spiritual, absolute. There is no condition. Because it is tree, it cannot move. That is condition.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: No condition. In the spiritual world, can trees and plants communicate? Here they have no means of communication, no talking.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Everything is possible.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: The animals can also understand and communicate.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You can milk the cows as many times as you like, and as much as you like.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: And talk with them.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. There is no limit. That is spiritual world.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: One thing that has always confused a lot of devotees is how is it possible to eat something in the spiritual world when that, the thing that you're eating is also spiritual?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: There is no need of eating, but if they like, they can eat, enjoy.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: The taste, the flavor.</p>
<p>Devotee: But what happens to the thing that they're eating?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (laughs) Then you will see when you go there.</p>
<p>Devotees: Jaya Prabhupāda.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: This is our disease. When we're talking of spiritual world, we are bringing material thoughts. To bring coal in Sheffield. What is called. Sheffield? There are many coal mines?</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: To bring coals to Newcastle.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, like that. Why should you bring your material ideas to the spiritual world? There is no relativity. Everything absolute.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: There is no day or night. Everything is self-illuminating.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: There is, but there is no need. What is this penguin? No, penguin? Literature?</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: It's a bird found in the South Pole, penguin, lives in the south, bottom of the earth.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Bottom of the...?</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: It's called Antarctica. Are there seasonal changes, Śrīla Prabhupāda? Rain and different seasonal...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Everything is there, but there is no necessity. (pause) (break)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: ...to the USA, many sahajiyās, they requested me, "Sir, why you are going? You are in Vṛndāvana. Continue your bhajana. What is the use of preaching?"</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: What is the use of preaching?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Preaching. They advised me like that.</p>
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