Srila Prabhupada - "On the ground our earth looks flat but when you go up you will see our Earth planet is a ball (A global round sphere" (Lecture New York 1966.)

The Earth planet is a "round global sphere" in the ocean of outer space.

It is NOT flat as the misinformed foolishly believe, Srila Prabhupada tells us this.

Srila Prabhupada - "On the ground our earth looks flat but when you go up you will see our Earth planet is a ball (A global round sphere" (Lecture New York 1966.)

The Sanskrit word "Dvīpa" has two meanings -

1 - "Islands" or "continents"

 2 - "But also round planetary globes or spheres" situated in the ocean of outer space Srila Prabhupada explains.

Srila Prabhupada - "The planets are called dvīpas. Outer space is like an ocean of air. Just as there are islands in the watery ocean, these planets in the ocean of space are called dvīpas, or islands in outer space" (Chaitanya Caritamrita Madhya 20.218, Purport)