Cosmological Questions Require Further Understanding, Temple Distribution Priorities

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Prabhupāda: Because we are materially attached, so there is temporary inconvenience. Tāṁs titikṣasva bhārata [Bg 2.14]: "Tolerate." Don't be puffed up, "Oh, after giving so many..." Oh. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: After you go in the back for a massage, he'll ask some questions. Prabhupāda: That's nice. What are those... [break] Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: ...is flying in an airplane from Los Angeles to India via Hawaii, but in the picture that we have drawn, there is no way you can go from Los Angeles to India via Hawaii.

If you go this direction, from Los Angeles, say, this way, you don't come to India. India's over here according to our description. Yet when they take a flight, they say, "We go around the earth." But we say, "You cannot go around the earth." So far, our understanding... So far—unless we have not completely understood yet—it is like a lotus, Jambūdvīpa, and the whole Bhū-maṇḍala is like a lotus.

So how do... You cannot fly around Bhārata-varṣa, or earth. Yet every day the whole science of aeronautics, of flying, is based upon the fact that they're flying around different places of the earth. And everyone who sees this, that, our description, is going to ask this question.

It's a very important question to answer, and Bhakti-prema has not yet answered it. None of us can. We are avoiding it at this point until we get further information. There must be an answer, but we have not yet been able to give the answer.

I have absolute faith in these..., in the Vedic description. I am completely convin... I just know that I have not understood perfectly yet. Therefore the answer's not apparent.

But it's definitely a question that they will raise. [break]

Prabhupāda: Give him this letter with immigration card. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He has sent it to us.

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