Cow protection is the foundation of human civilization; killing one's mother for meat is animal behavior masquerading as culture.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Mādhavānanda: ...year. And it rises also very early.
Prabhupāda: Why, in different season, the day is longer and shorter? Rakṣaṇa: The time that Lord Vivasvān takes to travel across the sky differs.
Prabhupāda: Who travels? You say. Sun is fixed up, they say.
Devotee: According to their theory, it is fixed up.
Prabhupāda: According to our theory... We don't say theory. According to Bhāgavata statement, in this season, the sun runs slow. In the other season, the sun runs fast.
That is understandable. But if the sun is fixed up, why in some season it is going fast and some season it is going slow? Mādhavānanda: Their theory is that because the earth is tilted on an axis, that during the winter season the sun is hitting at a different angle, and therefore it's different time. They say that the earth is rotating also, and the axis is turning from one side to the other, so that north is sometimes...
Prabhupāda: So where is the question of going fast and slow? Jayādvaita: They say that because the smaller portion of the earth... The earth is spherical, and by the top it's smaller, so when that top side is pointed toward the sun, the sun is..., as the earth turns, the sun is hitting each place sooner in each day. So it's going..., traveling less distance on that surface.