fossil record incomplete

One day, a fruit vendor came before the house of Nanda Maharaja. Upon hearing the vendor call, "If anyone wants fruits please come and take them from me!" child Krsna immediately took some grains in His palm and went to get fruits in exchange. In those days exchange was by barter; therefore Krsna might have seen His parents exchange fruits and other things by bartering grains, and so He imitated. But His palms were very small, and He was not very careful to hold them tight, so He was dropping the grains. The vendor who came to sell fruits saw this and was very much captivated by the beauty of the Lord, so immediately accepted whatever few grains were left in His palm and filled His hands with fruits. In this meantime, the vendor saw that whole basket of fruit had become filled with jewels. The Lord is the bestower of all benediction. If someone gives something to the Lord, he is not the loser; he is the gainer by a million times. (More...)

Devotee: Well, if we leave at seven, seven-thirty… Between the temple and... [indistinct]. (More...)

Syamasundara: So I understand that, and I'll accept that, but the one thing I'm still puzzled on is that there's no geological evidence that in former times on this planet there were more complex forms... (More...)

Prabhupada: Yes. So the so-called scientists and philosophers who do not follow the system of [sic:] ascending knowledge, knowledge received from higher authorities, they are not perfect. They cannot have any perfect knowledge, either research work with the blunt imperfect senses. They will not... So whatever they say, we take it as imperfect, dream. And when Krsna says that "I enter into the universes," vistabhyaham idam krtsnam ekamsena sthito jagat [Bg 10.42]. Now the weightlessness of the planets, the scientists describe in so many ways, but that is not very perfect. What is the cause of weightlessness? I have, what is called, [indistinct]. (More...)