The Absolute and the Relative

0:00Prabhupāda: ...believes that "I am kṛṣṇa-dāsa," all trouble.

Identity as servant of Krishna

0:15Jīv kṛṣṇa-dās, ei viśvās korle to' ār duḥkho nāi [Gītāvalī].

Introduction of visiting scientist

0:36[japa] [break] [on walk]

0:36...scientist, Dr. [indistinct]. [indistinct] Yes. He is from India. [indistinct] University. Your department is university?

1:01Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes. University of California, Irvine. [break]

1:04Prabhupāda: ...do you know anything about law of relativity?

Discussion on law of relativity

1:32Devotee: Force and reaction? No, I'm not... I left school when I was very young. I studied on my own.

1:51Prabhupāda: Law of relativity, just explain what is that.

Relativity of time and space

1:56Svarūpa Dāmodara: Everything in this material world is all relative. Nothing is absolute. For example, time and space, these are all relative terms; there is nothing absolute. That means something is bigger than something.

2:13If you compare two things, like small ball and the big ball, the big ball is big enough compared with the small one.

2:24Same thing, if you compare the length of certain pole, that length will be relative to a certain standard. So everything is related.

Expressing God through relativity

2:34Prabhupāda: So on the strength of law of relativity, you have to express God.

3:00Devotee: So far I have only experienced how this material world is relative.

God as the only absolute

3:07Prabhupāda: Yes.

3:07Devotee: And God is absolute.

3:09Prabhupāda: Yes. God is only absolute. Everything relative.

Absolute greatness of God

3:44God is great; that is absolute. Otherwise anything, it is great or...small, small.

3:52Devotee: Because compared to Him, everything is very small.

3:59Prabhupāda: Yes. Absolute, means there must be relative also.

Devotees distributing spiritual literature

4:14Devotee: The devotees, they want to [indistinct].

4:29Prabhupāda: Hah?

4:29Devotee: They want to personally [indistinct] distribute the literature. And they came to our house for prasādam a number of times.

4:35Prabhupāda: Some devotees?

4:37Devotee: Yes. [indistinct] Los Angeles. They went on a tour.

4:46Prabhupāda: Oh.

4:46Devotee: The devotees. And they came for prasādam... [break] [end]