Spirituality requires both transcendental knowledge and practical wisdom in managing temples and seva.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation [First Devotees Going to London on Evening Before Their Departure] — August 18, 1968, Montreal 680818R1-MONTREAL [39:48 Minutes] Prabhupāda: You can plaster together, up and down, and each and every one of them..., each and every one of them is separately sevenfolded covered. The watery portion is beyond the sevenfold covering. And each covering is ten times more expansive than the previous covering. The Personality of Godhead creates all such universes by His breathing period, lies above the cluster of the universes.
So subtle should be taken. So subtle should be taken also. Janārdana: Yes. Is pradhāna subtle matter? Prabhupāda: Yes. Janārdana: So the subtle is moving the gross like the miller's wheel. The potter's wheel moves the pot.
So the pradhāna... So the mind is moving the body. So the pradhāna... They simply put pradhāna... Prabhupāda: If it is mentioned five, then it is five gross, and seven means subtle.
So five or seven... Of course, seven is more explicit than the five. Janārdana: I never see anywhere where it is mentioned that there's an earth covering. It's always water as the first. Water is the first layer that's given.
So there are four of the elements. Then... Prabhupāda: Then above water there is air. Janārdana: Air, fire, ether. Water, fire, air, ether, and then this pradhāna. So pradhāna is split up into the three: ahaṇkāra, mahat-tattva and...
What's...? Prabhupāda: Pradhāna is material ingredient, material cause. Janārdana: Material cause. Prabhupāda: And prakṛti... Janārdana: Is the efficient cause. Prabhupāda: Efficient cause. Janārdana: That is in the Brahma-saṁhitā. Prabhupāda: Yes. Janārdana: I have the page. Prabhupāda: This is Third Canto? Janārdana: Third Canto. I have fragments of it. Satsvarūpa Prabhu gave me some fragments that he had. So I have a couple of books like this.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Janārdana: Well, Montreal center has a room for a press. However, there is the inconvenience that the building may be torn down in two years.