Spiritual reality contains infinite eternal varieties; material existence is merely their perverted, temporary reflection.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.9.13 — May 3, 1972, Tokyo 720503SB-TOKYO [41:42 Minutes] SB-02.09.13_720503SB-TOKYO Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [Prabhupāda and devotees respond] bhrājiṣṇubhir yaḥ parito virājate lasad-vimānāvalibhir mahātmanām vidyotamānaḥ pramadottamādyubhiḥ savidyud abhrāvalibhir yathā nabhaḥ [SB 2.9.13] [break]
Prabhupāda: Next. [devotees take turns chanting verse, with Prabhupāda correcting pronunciation] [break] "...bhir, by the glowing." [03:03] Pradyumna: yaḥ—the Vaikuṇṭhalokas. [break] "The Vaikuṇṭha planets are also surrounded by various airplanes, all glowing and brilliantly situated, belonging to the great mahātmās, or devotees of the Lord. The ladies also are as beautiful as lightning because of their celestial complexions.
And all these combined together appear just like the sky decorated with both clouds and lightning." Prabhupāda: Hmm. So there is no scarcity of aeroplanes in Vaikuṇṭhaloka. It is not nirviśeṣa, zero. The rascals, they do not know [break] what is actually Vaikuṇṭha is, or the kingdom of God.
And they dismiss everything by declaring, "Zero, without any varieties." Nirviśeṣa śūnyavādi. They have no information; therefore "zero." But actually that is not. Exactly like this sky, the Vaikuṇṭha sky is there. Like the planets here, there are also planets.
As in the sky, outer space, here in this material world big, big aer... [break] So there also, there are many big, big aeroplanes running on. Now, how this information received? When Bhāgavata was compiled five thousand years ago, there was no existence of aeroplane. But how in the Bhāgavata the information of aeroplane is there?
If men were less intelligent five thousand years ago, and now they have advanced, then how persons five thousand years ago... Not five thousand years; many, many millions of years ago the information was there. But from historical point of view, at least five thousand years ago. So how they give this information of airplane?
Hmm? So how you can say that some forty thousand years ago... What is the Darwin's theory? There was no brain? Śyāmasundara: Apelike creatures. Prabhupāda: So how this nonsense theory can be accepted?