Water and the History of Creation

Geological evidence and planetary inundation

0:00Prabhupāda: …stones shows that there was water. [break] Shape of the stone indicates that there was water fall.

0:12Devotee: One time though the ocean was this high. [break]

0:18Prabhupāda: Actually, before planet was covered with water. Pralaya-payodhi-jale dhṛtavān asi vedam [Śrī Daśāvatāra Stotra 1]. It's going down, water.

0:31Now the one fourth dried up, and gradually the remaining three fourths will be dried. There will be no water.

Vedic history and universal creation cycles

0:41Devotee: Is that when Kṛṣṇa incarnated as a fish? Was that on this planet?

0:45Prabhupāda: Yes, when there was pralaya. This is the way how creation carries on. [break]

Cultural suppression and regional environments

1:08"...these Oriental people, we have to kill their culture." They followed the same policy in India. [break] ...lost. [indistinct]

1:41Devotee: is this?

1:46Prabhupāda: Very old? [break] ...there is any beach in the world.

1:47Devotee: It's like California little bit, but not so much anxiety. [break]

1:54Prabhupāda: So gradually the ocean water is also being dried up. It is evidenct that water was here. [break] Eating more?

2:20Devotee: Yes.

2:21Prabhupāda: We are also research scholars. Everything we are. [break] Suppose when the water was here.

Scientific research and historical observation

2:46Here there was water. That's a fact. Then so much water reduced, again reduced, again reduced, again reduced, many thousands of years. [break] ...not by birth. [break] Nāmācārya. Ācārya for preaching name.

Spiritual leadership and preaching the name

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3:13He wanted to preach the glories of name, but there are teachers with title.* Ācārya* title was given to Haridāsa because he was chanting daily, regularly. [break] beads. [end]