Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: (break) Chipped rice?
Mahāmṣa: No, that was sugar.
Prabhupāda: Sugar? Salt.
Harikeśa: That's the way their salt is here.
Acyutānanda: In blocks?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Rock salt.
Prabhupāda: Not rock salt. Sea salt.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They get it from here?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Sea. Not here, where there is sea.
Yaśodānandana: The sea is just fourteen miles away.
Prabhupāda: Shallow water, when it is dried by the sunshine they get salt. Evaporation is done by sunshine, and they get the salt. Practically they get the salt without any cost, and whatever they get, money, they are satisfied.
Acyutānanda: Why is the sea salty? (break) Science can't.... They have no answer.
Mahāmṣa: Sweet water is falling, and it is becoming salty.
Prabhupāda: Salt means earth. Earth. So in the water there is earth. Bhumir āpaḥ. So within the water there is earth. And within the fire there is water. And within the air there is fire. Sukṣmaṁ to sthūla. From sky to land. These are the different transformation stages.