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Gravitation works on condition. It is not final. Under certain condition it works

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Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

Prabhupāda: Whatever it may be, you cannot say that gravitation draws things downward. If gravitation. . . You will find cloud, thousands of tons of water. Why it is not down? Cloud, why it does not come down?

Rādhā-vallabha: Because it is in vapor form. It has not condensed yet.

Prabhupāda: Because they are nondevotee. That is the defect. More the nondevotee, more rascal, mūḍha, duṣkṛtina, mūḍha . . . They cannot. Duṣkṛtino mūḍhaḥ, na prapadyante. Māyayāpahṛta-jñāna: "Knowledge has been taken away by māyā." (break) . . .more you become atheist, the more you become blind. This is the point. (break) . . .given this maxim in our Back to Godhead: "Where there is God there is no nescience." (break) . . .preaching, back to God. "If you want to know things are there, then come back to God. Don't go this side; come this side." This side means he will be drowned. There are two sides. If somebody unnecessarily goes this side, he is death, and this side, he is saved. So one who is going this side we are asking back to Godhead, "Come in this side." If one goes this side, he will find the downtown, so many nice buildings, parks and everything. And the boy who goes this side, he will die.

Rādhā-vallabha: Śrīla Prabhupāda, in Svarūpa Dāmodara's book he gave the example that "Why does the red apple fall off the tree but not the green apple?" So the scientists say that when the apple gets ripe, certain acids rise in the stem and weaken it, and it falls off the tree. There's no need for God or anything like that. It's automatic.

Prabhupāda: No, no, there is no question of God, but with the gravitation why the green apple is not drawn downward?

Rādhā-vallabha: Because the stem is very strong on a green apple, but on a red apple it is weak.

Prabhupāda: That means it is conditional; gravitation works on condition. It is not final. Under certain condition it works. Therefore, then you have to accept condition. Under such-and-such condition it falls.

Rādhā-vallabha: So these conditions are being set up by nature. There is no need for a controller.

Prabhupāda: Whatever it may be, you cannot say that gravitation draws things downward. If gravitation. . . You will find cloud, thousands of tons of water. Why it is not down? Cloud, why it does not come down?

Rādhā-vallabha: Because it is in vapor form. It has not condensed yet.

Prabhupāda: Whatever it may be, but it is weighty.

Rādhā-vallabha: It is waiting for the proper temperature.

Prabhupāda: Then everything is conditional. Everything conditional.

Rādhā-vallabha: So these conditions are part of nature.

Prabhupāda: That is all right. But you cannot say, "This is the law: 'Everything will come down.'" These things are not coming down. So if there is. . . Not only this cloud, so many planets, hundreds and millions and millions of tons, how they are flying? How they are stayed on the sky? Everyone knows it.

Rādhā-vallabha: Each planet has its own gravitational force.

Prabhupāda: That may be. I say it is condition. Under certain condition. . . When Rāmacandra throws stones for a bridging, the stones were floating. The stones did not go down.

Rādhā-vallabha: Well, we can see in these inborn laws of nature all these things are going on. We don't see where there is need of some person behind it. These things are going on. Each planet has its own gravitational force; therefore they are balancing each other in the universe.

Prabhupāda: You do that. You float one ball if you are so confident.

Page Title:Gravitation works on condition. It is not final. Under certain condition it works
Compiler:SharmisthaK
Created:2022-09-15, 09:43:29
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