Morning Walk – September 22, 1972, Los Angeles

720922MW-Los Angeles [04:48 Minutes]

Absolute, means there must be relative also

Prabhupada: ...believes that "I am krsna-dasa," all trouble. Jiv krsna-das, ei visvas korle to' ar duḥkho nai [Gitavali]. [japa] [break]

[on walk]

Prabhupada: …scientist, Dr. [indistinct].

Devotee: [indistinct]

Prabhupada: Yes. He is from India. [indistinct] University. Your department is university?

Svarūpa Damodara: Yes. University of California, Irvine. [break]

Prabhupada: ...do you know anything about law of relativity?

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

Prabhupada: Law of relativity, just explain what is that.

Svarūpa Damodara: 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. If you compare two things, like small ball and the big ball, the big ball is big enough compared with the small one. Same thing, if you compare the length of certain pole, that length will be relative to a certain standard. So everything is related.

Prabhupada: So on the strength of law of relativity, you have to express God.

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

Prabhupada: Yes.

Devotee: And God is absolute.

Prabhupada: Yes. God is only absolute. Everything relative. God is great; that is absolute. Otherwise anything, it is great or...small, small.

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

Prabhupada: Yes. Absolute, means there must be relative also.

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

Prabhupada: Hah?

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

Prabhupada: Some devotees?

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

Prabhupada: Oh.

Devotee: The devotees. And they came for prasadam... [break] [end]