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Swami, is the idea that matter is neither created nor destroyed, but the substance is eternal but the form is temporary?

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"Swami, is the idea that matter is neither created nor destroyed, but the substance is eternal but the form is temporary"

Lectures

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Everything here in the material world is temporary.
Lecture on SB 7.9.10-11 -- Montreal, July 14, 1968:

Devotee: Swami, is the idea that matter is neither created nor destroyed, but the substance is eternal but the form is temporary? Is that...

Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. That is the way. Everything here in the material world is temporary. Anything you take, anything material, that is temporary. Similarly this body is temporary, this house is temporary, this country is temporary. Say some five hundred years ago, this was not Canada. It was something else. Similarly, in some other time, it will be different. So nothing is fixed up or permanent in this material world. Yes?

Guest: Some time ago, I... (break)

Prabhupāda: ...either belonging to the Indians or to the Canadians. It belongs to Kṛṣṇa. Actually, that is the fact. Everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa. We simply falsely say that "This is, belongs to Canadian," "This is, belongs to Indian," "This is, belongs to..." (end)