Perfect creation requires humility; premature spiritual claims without regulated practice invite ruin and darkness.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: ...Then, in the morning, it rises reddish. So why it does not look reddish always if it is fixed? Huh? Harikeśa: Well, the material scientists say it's because of the atmospheric condition.
It refracts the light in such a way that it becomes reddish. That's what they say. Because it's thicker atmosphere. You have to look through more atmos...
Prabhupāda: Then how it comes so high? After few hours it goes so high. Harikeśa: Well, there is less atmosphere to look through. Why it goes up there?
Prabhupāda: So that means move? Harikeśa: No, no. Because we're moving this way. The earth is rotating.
Prabhupāda: You are moving, but why you say sometimes this position and sometimes that position? Harikeśa: Because the earth also moves like this. It's going around the sun, and then every day it rotates once.
Prabhupāda: Hmm? Harikeśa: It rotates on an axis like this. So therefore the sun seems to go around, but actually it's the earth that goes around.
Prabhupāda: Now, if you measure when this sun and when it comes meridian distance, so do you think the earth is moving so quickly? It is... According to their modern science, the earth is moving twenty-five thousand miles only. Harikeśa: Throughout...