Room Conversation [partially recorded] – August 9, 1971, London

It will appear now I am speaking from beyond this world

Prabhupada: "Therefore His teachings, crude teachings, cannot be now applied to the modern, advanced, educated people. That was suitable for those people. Now people have advanced in science, in philosophy. Now God consciousness and all God should be presented on the basis of science and philosophy. Otherwise people will not accept."

Patrick Fitzgerald: There's one philosophical point I would like you to elucidate. I haven't been able to quite understand it, certainly, fully at all, and that is the dvaitadvaita [indistinct] the dualistic, the incomprehensible..., let's say the dualistic-nondualistic philosophy which sees at the same time Krsna as comprehending all of man, all of the world, everything within the body, we might say, of Krsna, and at the same time, however, one sees the world as distinct from Krsna, in other words, as maya, and as illusion.

And it is this, the dualistic, I would like to... If you could just explain to me the difference between the..., I mean, how this fits in, the monistic, or the idea of the unitary view that Krsna is everything, is all and in all, and then at the same time that the world..., there is this world of illusion, which is somehow distinct from Krsna. Now could you just explain this point to me?

Prabhupada: This is very easy to understand. Just like you are recording my speeches in the tape recorder. When you play back, it will speak just like I am speaking, but I am not there. Is it not a fact?

Patrick Fitzgerald: Yes.

Prabhupada: It will appear now I am speaking from beyond this world. Somebody's hearing, "Here Swamiji's speaking." Again, when the record player will play, it will... [end]