Life originates matter, not matter life; souls choose their bodies through eternal free will and desire.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk at Cheviot Hills Golf Course — May 13, 1973, Los Angeles 730513MW-LOS ANGELES [45:32 Minutes] Walk_730513MW-LOS ANGELES Kṛṣṇa-kāntī: [introducing recording] Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa. Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa. Testing. Testing 1,2,3, testing 1,2,3, testing 1,2,3.
Hare Kṛṣṇa... Srila Prabhupāda's morning walk, recorded May 13th, 1973, at Cheviot Hills Golf Course, in Los Angeles. [break]
Prabhupāda: ...to stop him for taking another Nobel Prize. Where is? [laughter] I am giving him notes that life is not from matter; matter is from life. So he is going to write thesis on this.
Prabhupāda: Yes. This is the fact. The so-called scientists, they are going on a wrong theory. Kṛṣṇa says, ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ [Bg. 10.8]: "I am the origin of everything." So Kṛṣṇa is life.
Kṛṣṇa is not dead stone. Svarūpa Dāmodara? Svarūpa Dāmodara: Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa says that "I am the source of everything." He is life. Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes.
Prabhupāda: He is not a dead stone. Then how matter can be cause of life? Svarūpa Dāmodara: Matter is caused by life.