Life originates from consciousness; chemicals arise from living entities, never the reverse.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — December 3, 1973, Los Angeles 731203MW-LOS ANGELES [39:35 Minutes] Walk_731203MW-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: What is the scientific question? Muḍhāḥ? [laughter] Māyayāpahṛta-jñānāḥ [Bg. 7.15]? Svarūpa Dāmodara: When they say about the..., how one starts talking about the origin of life, they say that one should first of all consider how the earth was formed, how this planet earth where we live, how it was formed, what is the origin of the earth.
Prabhupāda: Earth. Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Origin of earth is life. It is very simple to understand. Just like your body. Your body is...
Or why your body? Take the tree. Tree is matter; it is earth. Wherefrom the big tree comes?
From the life within the seed. Svarūpa Dāmodara: But they say that about 4.5 billion years ago this earth condensed in such a form. But before that there was no living entity, because this earth was not suitable for it.
Prabhupāda: [laughs] That is rascal. No, no. You have got history for billions of years? Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes.
Prabhupāda: What is that history? We have got history that Brahmā was the first creation, and from Brahmā... Brahmā created this universe. Svarūpa Dāmodara: They are saying that before, it was all gaseous dust particles and some gaseous materials which were floating, and in due course it condensed, and then it formed this... Prabhupāda: So wherefrom the gas came?