Why haven't the modern scientists found life outside of earth?
Srila Prabhupada explains the "Fermi paradox" that WRONGLY suggests intelligent extraterrestrial beings in the universe are extremely very, very rare.
The fact is, the modern scientists and philosophers today have no idea of what individual "life" really is and how vast and variegated it is thoughout the material and spiritual universe.
Sarva-gatah means individual life is EVERYWHERE!
Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi, who coined the Fermi paradox, was having a conversation in the summer of 1950 with fellow physicists.
While walking to lunch, the men discussed recent UFO reports and the possibility of faster-than-light travel.
The conversation moved on to other topics, until during lunch Fermi blurted out,
"But where is everybody?"
Life as we know it on this earth planet does not exist everywhere in the material universe. Life elsewhere like on the Sun, is totally different but we have not the proper eyes or material bodily vessel to see the civilization living on the Sun, the Moon and unlimited other planets.
Srila Prabhupāda further explains-
Srila Prabhupada - "The conditions of each and every planet are different, and different classes of human beings are accommodated there for particular purposes mentioned in the codes of the Lord." (SB,Canto 1 Ch 3 text 22 Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "The normal condition is that the Lord has provided each and every planet with all the needs of the native living beings. They can happily live and execute their predestined occupations to attain salvation at the end, following the rules and regulations mentioned in the revealed scriptures." (SB, Canto 1 Ch 10 text 25 Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "By the grace of the Lord, each and every planet is created fully equipped. So not only is this earth fully equipped with all the riches for the maintenance of its inhabitants, but also when the Lord descends on the earth the whole earth becomes so enriched with all kinds of opulences that even the denizens of heaven worship it with all affection.
But by the will of the Lord, the whole earth can at once be changed. He can do and undo a thing by His sweet will. Therefore no one should consider himself to be self-sufficient or independent of the Lord." (SB, Canto 1 Ch 16 text 24 Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "The human necessities of life are fully supplied by the Lord in the shape of food grains, milk, fruit, wood, stone, sugar, silk, jewels, cotton, salt, water, vegetables, etc., in sufficient quantity to feed and care for the human race of the world as well as the living beings on each and every planet within the universe.
The supply source is complete, and only a little energy by the human being is required to get his necessities into the proper channel." (SB, Canto 2 Ch 2 text 37 Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "Each planet has its particular climatic influences and particular types of inhabitants and is completely equipped with everything, including the beauty of the seasons. In the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.40) it is similarly stated, vibhūti-bhinnam: on each and every planet there are different opulences.
It cannot be expected that one planet is exactly like another. By God's grace, by nature's law, each and every planet is made differently and has different wonderful features. All such wonders were personally experienced by Kardama Muni while he traveled with his wife, yet he could return again to his humble hermitage." (SB, Canto 3 Ch 23 text 43 Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "Each and every planet within the universe travels at a very high speed. From a statement in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is understood that even the sun travels sixteen thousand miles in a second, and from Brahma-saṁhitā we understand from the śloka, yac-cakṣur eṣa savitā sakala-grahāṇām that the sun is considered to be the eye of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda, and it also has a specific orbit within which it circles. Similarly, all other planets have their specific orbits." (SB, Canto 4 Ch 12 text 39 Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "If a planet is destroyed, it must fall into the water of garbha. The earth therefore warned King Pṛthu that he could gain nothing by destroying her. Indeed, how would he protect himself and his citizens from drowning in the garbha water?
In other words, outer space may be compared to an ocean of air, and each and every planet is floating on it just as a boat or island floats on the ocean. Sometimes planets are called dvīpa, or islands, and sometimes they are called boats. Thus the cosmic manifestation is partially explained in this reference by the cow-shaped earth." (SB, Canto 4 Ch 17 text 21 Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "In the spiritual world, however, there is no such distinction between the body and the embodied. In the material world, distinctive features are manifested in different types of bodies in the various planets.
We have full information from the Vedic literature that in each and every planet, both material and spiritual, there are living entities of varied intelligence. The earth is one of the planets of the Bhūrloka planetary system. There are six planetary systems above Bhūrloka and seven planetary systems below it." (SB, Canto 4 Ch 20 text 35-36 Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "In each and every planet there is a predominating deity. It is understood from Bhagavad-gītā that in the sun there is a predominating deity named Vivasvān. Similarly, there is a predominating deity of the moon and of the various planets.
Actually the predominating deities in all the other planets are descendants from the predominating deities of the sun and moon. On this planet earth there are two kṣatriya dynasties, and one comes from the predominating deity of the sun and the other from the predominating deity of the moon." (SB, Canto 4 Ch 22 text 54, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "Mahārāja Pṛthu was one of the śaktyāveśa incarnations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and as such he appeared on the surface of the earth to execute the orders of the Supreme.
As stated in Bhagavad-gītā, the Supreme Lord is the proprietor of all planets, and He is always anxious to see that in each and every planet the living entities are happily living and executing their duties. As soon as there is some discrepancy in the execution of duties, the Lord appears on earth, as confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā (4.7): yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata." (SB, Canto 4 Ch 23 text 1-3, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "The sun-god evaporates water from the seas and oceans and then forms the water into clouds and distributes it over land. When there is sufficient rainfall grains are produced, and these grains maintain living entities in each and every planet. The sun-god is also addressed herein as pūrṇa, or complete, because the rays emanating from the sun have no end. For millions and millions of years since the creation of this universe, the sun-god has been supplying heat and light without diminution." (SB, Canto 4 Ch 24 text 36, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "In Brahma-saṁhitā it is said:
jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi-koṭiṣv aśeṣa-vasudhādi-vibhūti-bhinnam.
In each and every universe there are different types of planets, and each planet has distinctive features. On the strength of this verse, we can understand that in Kinnaraloka the inhabitants can fly with their wings.
There is also a planet, known as Siddhaloka, where the inhabitants can fly even without wings. Thus each and every planet has some distinctive facility. That is the beauty of the varied creation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead." (SB, Canto 4 Ch 30 text 6, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "All the planets rest on the sunshine, and because of the heat of the sun, they all revolve in their orbits. On each and every planet, the trees and plants grow and change colors due to the sunshine.
Being the rays of the sun, the sunshine is nondifferent from the sun. Similarly, all the planets, resting on the sunshine, are nondifferent from the sun. The entire material world is completely dependent on the sun, being produced by the sun, and the cause, the sun, is inherent in the effects." (SB, Canto 4 Ch 31 text 16, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "Lord Viṣṇu is the resting place of the entire creation:
brahmaṇo hi pratiṣṭhāham (BG, Ch 14 text 27).
On Brahman, everything is resting. All the universes are resting on the brahmajyoti, and all the planets are resting on the universal atmosphere. In each and every planet there are oceans, hills, states and kingdoms, and each planet is giving shelter to so many living entities.
They are all standing on the earth of feet and legs, torso and shoulders, but actually everything is resting ultimately on the potencies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore He is known ultimately as sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam (Bs. 5.1), the cause of all causes." (SB, Canto 5 Ch 12 text 10, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "Each and every planet has its particular atmosphere, and if one wants to travel to any particular planet within the material universe, one has to adapt his material body to the climatic condition of that planet. For instance, if one wants to go from India to Europe, where the climatic condition is different, one has to change his dress accordingly.
Similarly, a complete change of body is necessary if one wants to go to the transcendental planets of Vaikuṇṭha. However, if one wants to go to the higher material planets, he can keep his finer dress of mind, intelligence and ego, but has to leave his gross dress (body) made of earth, water, fire, etc." (CC Adi 5.22, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "A monarch is certainly a representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, sarva-loka-maheśvaram: (BG 5.29) the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the proprietor of all planetary systems. In each and every planet there must be some king, governmental head or executive. Such a person is supposed to be the representative of Lord Viṣṇu. On behalf of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he must see to the interests of all the people." (CC Madhya 1.181, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "Since the entire material universe is composed of five elements—earth, water, fire, air and ether—why should there be living entities on one planet and not others? Such a foolish version can never be accepted by Vedic students. From the Vedic literatures we understand that there are living entities on each and every planet, regardless of whether the planet is composed of earth, water, fire or air. These living entities may not have the same forms that are found on this planet earth, but they have different forms composed of different elements." (CC Madhya 19.138, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "Man-made satellites and mechanical space vehicles will NEVER be able to carry human beings to the (higher dimensional) planets of outer space. (Attempting to enter a higher dimensional realm while confined to a gross unqualified material bodily vessel inside a mundane space craft will NEVER allow one to enter the heavenly reality on the Sun, Moon etc).
Men cannot even go on their much-advertised trips to the moon.
(Srila Prabhupada means here, not being able to enter the "heavenly higher realm of Chandraloka" on the Moon when the American Astronauts supposedly went to the "gross" Moon we see in the sky six times between 1969 and 1972).
As we have already stated, the atmosphere on such higher planets is different from the atmosphere here on earth. Each and every planet has its particular atmosphere, and if one wants to travel to any particular planet within the material universe, one has to have a material body exactly adapted to the climatic condition of that planet.
For instance, if one wants to go from India to Europe, where the climatic condition is different, one has to change his dress accordingly. Similarly, a complete change of body is necessary if one wants to go to the transcendental planets of Vaikuṇṭha."(Easy Journey to Other Planets)
Srila Prabhupada - "First of all, I don't believe they have gone to the Moon frankly speaking, but even if they have gone, they are landing in some part of the moon planet where there is no inhabitation." (Lecture SB, Canto 6 Ch 1 text 6, Bombay, Nov 6, 1970)
Srila Prabhupada - "Citralekhā, while talking, began to draw many pictures of the demigods inhabiting the higher planetary systems, then pictures of the Gandharvas, Siddhas, Cāraṇas, Pannagas, Daityas, Vidyādharas and Yakṣas, as well as many pictures of human beings. (The statements of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and other Vedic literatures prove definitely that on each and every planet there are living entities of different varieties.
Therefore, it is foolish to assert that there are no living entities but those on this earth.) Citralekhā painted many pictures. Among those of the human beings were the members of the Vṛṣṇi dynasty, including Vasudeva, the father of Kṛṣṇa; Śūrasena, the grandfather of Kṛṣṇa; Śrī Balarāmajī; Lord Kṛṣṇa; and many others." (Krsna Book 62)
Srila Prabhupada - "The planet on which we are living is called Jambūdvīpa. Outer space is taken as a great ocean of air, and within that great ocean of air there are many islands, which are the different planets. On each and every planet there are oceans also. On some of the planets the oceans are of salt water, and on some of them there are oceans of milk. On others there are oceans of liquor, and on others there are oceans of ghee or oil. There are different kinds of mountains also. Each and every planet has a different type of atmosphere." (Krsna Book 89)
Srila Prabhupada - "So, if we like, we can go to the higher planetary system, heavenly planetary system. Just like we are trying to go to the moon planet, but we have not been successful. In this way we cannot go there.
Each planet, each and every planet, has got different atmosphere. So unless your body is completely competent to live in such planet, you cannot go there.
Just like the scientists say that in the moon planet the temperature is two hundred degrees below zero. Similarly, in the sun planet the temperature is very, very high, hundred and thousand times degrees above the normal." (Lecture BG, Ch 2 text 13, Hamburg, Sep 10, 1969)
Srila Prabhupada - "So one has to become competent to transfer himself in a particular type of planet. So we, hy ùùùĵuùòóⁿ as spirit soul, dehī, the possessor of this body. Dehī means one who possesses this body, or the occupier of the body, the spirit soul. That is eternal. Changing body only, but eternal.
Therefore we should not be interested to these different types of temporary body. That is not very good intelligence. So we have to prepare ourself if we want. There is a full description of each and every planet.
And we can prepare ourself according to our desire, which planet we wish to go. But Kṛṣṇa says, mad-yājino 'pi yānti mām (BG 9.25). "Persons who are engaged in My occupational duties, they will come to Me." (Lecture BG, Ch 2 text 13, Hamburg, Sept 10, 1969)
Srila Prabhupada - "Vivasvān is the present sun-god, or the president. Just like you have got the president in your country. The Americans, they have got their president. Similarly, each and every planet has got its president.
The present president is called Vivasvān. Of course, their duration of life is very, very great, greater than ours. But still they are also human being. They are also living being, having a different type of body. They can live in that sun planet although it is fiery. That I have already explained." (Lecture BG, Ch 4 text 4, Bombay, March 24, 1974)
Srila Prabhupada - "Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti kaunteya (BG 4.9). Simply by knowing this science he becomes liberated soul. He becomes liberated soul. And what is the position of liberated soul? Liberated soul, tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti (BG 4.9).
That person who is liberated simply by knowing the transcendental nature of Kṛṣṇa, he is liberated, and he at once transferred to the spiritual sky into that planet which I am describing, Vaikuṇṭha planet. There are innumerable Vaikuṇṭha planets, and each and every planet, Kṛṣṇa is there in different Nārāyaṇa forms." (Lecture BG, Ch 4 text 11-12, New York City, July 28, 1966)
Srila Prabhupada - "On account of Kṛṣṇa's... You have seen Kṛṣṇa's effulgence is coming. That is the source of everything. That expansion of that effulgence is the brahmajyoti, and in that brahmajyoti, innumerable spiritual planets, material planets, are generated.
And in each and every planet there are varieties of presentation. Actually, the origin is the Kṛṣṇa's rays of the body, and the rays of the body's origin is Kṛṣṇa." (Lecture BG, Ch 4 text 24, Aug 4, 1976, New Mayapur France)
Srila Prabhupada - "There are five elements in the material nature: earth, water, fire, air, and ether. So in different planets, there are different atmospheres and different bodies also. Don't think that each and every planet of the same quality. No. Same quality in the sense because these five elements are present there.
Without these five elements, no material thing exists. So somewhere the fire is prominent. Somewhere the air is prominent. Somewhere water is prominent. Somewhere earth is prominent. So in this planet, or in some other earthly planet, earth is predominant." (Lecture BG, Ch 7 text 18, New York City, Oct 12, 1966)
Srila Prabhupada - "So as you see differences of standard of living here, similarly, each and every planet there is different standard of living. And it is said in the śāstra that if you go to the moon planet, then you live there for ten thousands of years, ten thousand of years, and their calculation of time is also greater than ours.
It is calculated that our six months is equal to their one day. That is called deva calculation. In this way you can get very long duration of life, very comforts, and nice beautiful body and residential quarters." (Lecture BG, Ch 9 text 3, Melb Australia, April 21, 1976)
Srila Prabhupada - "Paramāṇu means the atom. God is within the atom. So God is within you also. God is outside; God is within. Outside, as we see these five elements. What are these five elements? The same thing, expansion of God's energy. Just like we practically see scientifically, the sunshine is the cause of this universe.
Within the sunshine all the planets have grown, and in each and every planet, due to the sunshine the vegetables are growing. There are leaves. When there is no sunshine the leaf falls down. As soon as the sunshine is there the colorful fruits and flowers and leaves come out. Everything is due to the sunshine." (Lecture BG, Ch 9 text 4, Melb, Australia April 23, 1976)
Srila Prabhupada - "There are innumerable planets. Each planet has got a different atmosphere. Just like we have got experience within this planet, Europe has got another atmosphere, India has got another atmosphere.
Similarly, all the planets, they are of different atmospheres and each and every planet there are varieties of living entities. Just imagine the living entities are eight million four hundred thousand species. So even if you divide so many thousands and hundreds, still, eight million. This is God's creation." (Lecture BG, Ch 13 text 4, Paris, Aug 12, 1973)
Srila Prabhupada - "Just like we have a manager, a head, on this planet. Now we have divided. Formerly this planet was one unit, and there one head, the emperor. Just like Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja was the emperor of the whole world. Parīkṣit Mahārāja. All kings formerly, whoever became king, emperor, he ruled over the whole planet.
In each and every planet there was a ruler, but now, in the days of democracy, there are so many rulers, practically each and every one of us is a ruler. This is democracy." (Lecture BG, Ch 13 text 8-12, Bombay, Sept 30, 1973)
Srila Prabhupada - "That truth is explained as Brahman, as Paramātmā, or as Bhagavān. The same thing. Just like we see the sun. The sun is a planet and there is a sun-god. Just like we have got also in each and every planet one chief person. Here we have got president.
Formerly there was one president or king on this planet. Now they have now so many presidents. But according to God's plan, there is one president or king in each and every planet. So in the sun planet there is also one king or one chief person. His name is also given in the Bhagavad-gītā, Vivasvān.
If you accept Bhagavad-gītā, then you have to accept all these things. You cannot make minus anything. That is not knowledge of Bhagavad-gītā." (Lecture BG, Ch 13 text 13, Bombay, Oct 6, 1973)
Srila Prabhupada - "Everything is there. Here you require the sunlight, the moonlight, the electricity, but there is another nature, paras tasmāt tu bhāvaḥ anyo 'vyakto 'vyaktāt sanātanaḥ (BG 8.20).
There there is no need of sun, there is no need of moon, because each and every planet is illuminating. Yad gatvā na nivartante. And if you go there, then you do not come back again in this material world, which is duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam, nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ saṁsiddhiṁ paramāṁ gatāḥ (BG 8.15)." (Lecture BG, Ch 13 text 20, Bombay, Oct 14, 1973)
Srila Prabhupada - "Just like we find the climatic condition in the moon is different from the climatic condition of this earth. The climatic condition of sun is different from the climatic condition in the earth or from the moon. Every, each and every planet, each and every universe is differently conditioned. That is the beauty of Kṛṣṇa's creation.
Keśava tuwā jagat vicitra. Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has sung:
"Keśava, my dear Lord Kṛṣṇa, Your creation is so full of varieties."
That's a fact. But all these conditions are not very liking to us. We are trying to be liberated from all conditions. Therefore liberation is the ultimate goal." (Lecture SB, Canto 1 Ch 1 text 2, London, Aug 15, 1971)
Srila Prabhupada - "You cannot expect the same planet or same atmosphere everywhere. Just like even on this planet. I am coming from Europe, America, the climate is different. India's climate is different. Even on this planet. So each and every planet they of different nature. And all the living entities are there. In the Bhagavad-gītā we get information, sarva-ga. Sthāṇur acalo 'yam, sarva-ga.
It is not fact that only on this planet there are living entities, and other planets there are no living entities. No, that is not a fact. Anyway, here the proposal is how to achieve perfect happiness of ātma." (Lecture SB, Canto 1 Ch 2 text 6, Hyderabad, Nov 26, 1972)
Srila Prabhupada - "Parameśvara means the supreme controller. And Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā, sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭaḥ (BG 15.15).
"I am living in everyone's heart."
Now, imagine. There are innumerable universes, and each and every universe, there are innumerable planets, and in each and every planet, there are innumerable towns and cities, and each and every town, there are innumerable living entities, and Kṛṣṇa has to manage all of them.
That is Kṛṣṇa. Mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanaṁ ca (BG 15.15). Kṛṣṇa has to act in such a way that whatever we are doing, that is under the direction of Kṛṣṇa."(Lecture SB, Canto 1 Ch 7 text 6, Vrndavana, India April 18, 1975)
Srila Prabhupada - "Just like we had the history of Lord Varāha's lifting this planet, earth planet, from the Garbhodaka Ocean. So any time it can fall down. But it is being floated by the supreme power.
Otherwise by calculation how such a big planet can float just like a cotton swab? Yes, it is floating. Not only one, millions. So that is explained in the Bhagavad-gītā, gām āviśya ojasā dhārayāmi (BG 15.13). He enters. He enters in each and every planet, in each and every universe, each and every atom.
Aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-stham (Bs. 5.35). And maintaining them, maintaining them." (Lecture SB, Canto 1 Ch 15 text 38, Los Angeles, Dec 16, 1973)
Srila Prabhupada - "The same thing, the example, I have already given: a lump of matter—either you take earth or water or gold or silver—and you can make varieties of things, cause and effect. But that is nirviśeṣa.
But the spiritual world, janmādy asya yataḥ (SB 1.1.1), as it is said in the Vedānta-sūtra, the origin of everything, the cause of all causes, that is full of spiritual varieties. That is not nirviśeṣa. Here in this material world we are seeing these varieties.
We have got these planets. On the planets there are so many mountains, so many trees, so many plants, so many houses, in each and every planet. Don't think the other planets, that is void. No. They are also full of varieties. Full of varieties." (Lecture SB, Canto 3 Ch 26 text 10 Bombay, Dec 22, 1974)
Srila Prabhupada - "So some of them are material forms, and whatever differentiation of forms we see in the material world, they are all Kṛṣṇa's form. But in the spiritual world there are also many forms—just like Kṛṣṇa, Balarāma, then Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Aniruddha, Pradyumna, Nārāyaṇa, and the puruṣa-avatāra. There are many.
And there are innumerable planets also. In each and every planet there is one form. And when incarnation comes, one of the forms from Vaikuṇṭha, They come as incarnation. So many forms are called svāṁśa.
In the Varāha Purāṇa you will find the description of the forms: svāṁśa and vibhinnāṁśa. The forms exhibited in this material world as living being, they are vibhinnāṁśa." (Lecture SB, Canto 3 Ch 26 text 45, Bombay, Jan 20, 1975)
Srila Prabhupada - "Beyond the universe, there is spiritual sky. There are also different planets. But in those planets the predominating deity is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself.
And in this material world, in each and every planet, the predominating deity or the person is a very pious human being or living being. Generally, human being.
In other higher planetary system they are also like human being. Their features are exactly like us: two hands, two legs, one head, like that. But they are very pious. They are God conscious.
Every, in every planet the living entities or human being, they are of different grades." (Lecture SB, Canto 5 Ch 5 text 1, John Lennon's Tittenhurst Estate, London, Sept 12, 1969)
Srila Prabhupada - "Of course, these rascals, they are finding only stones and rocks in other planets. They have got everything only in this planet. And you have to believe them.
Wherever they are going, in the moon planet or in the Mars planet, what do they see? Simply rocks and sands. But that is not the fact. Each and every planet is full of living entities, that is the statement of sastra (Vedanta).
Everywhere, every planet, there are different kinds of living entities. Just like we see in this planet also, the Europeans are of different features, the Americans have different features, India different features, Africa different features.
So, there are varieties of living continent, varieties of living entities, but no planet is vacant. That is not the fact." (Lecture SB, Canto 5 Ch 5 text 10-13, Vrndavana, Nov 1, 1976)
Srila Prabhupada - "The sun is differently constructed, different rays. It is God's arrangement. In daytime you require sunshine, and you become tired, so at night-time there is very soothing moonshine. You becomes pacified, cleansed, soothing. Why the sun and the moon if they are vacant?
They (the modern sciencists) do not know vasudhādi bhinnam. Each and every planet is differently constructed. They do not know. These rascals, they are passing as scientists and simply giving this conclusion, that every planet is full of dust and rocks.
If dust and rocks, then why from the sunshine so much heat is coming, and why from the moonshine so soothing and pleasing shine is coming? These rascals, they do not know. And they are passing as scientists." Lecture SB, Canto 5 Ch 5 text 10-13, Vrndavana, Nov 1, 1976)
Srila Prabhupada - "But you should know from the Vedic literature the position. You should know that each and every planet is full of different types of living entities, and in the higher planetary system, the standard of living may be very. It is mentioned, thousands and thousands of times better than this planet.
This is called Bhūrloka, then Bhuvarloka, then Svargaloka, Janaloka, Maharloka, Tapoloka, Satyaloka, Brahmaloka—these are different higher planetary system—and each loka, the standard of happiness is thousand times better than the earth. This is the position." (Lecture SB, Canto 5 Ch 5 text 10-13, Vrndavana, Nov 1, 1976)
Srila Prabhupada - "There was topics of the different hellish conditions of life according to different sinful activities. There is description in the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, Fifth Canto, the different planetary systems of this universe, how each and every planet is different from the other by its atmosphere, by its inhabitants, dealings.
Just like modern scientists, they are finding difference between this planet and the moon planet. They say that there is no living entity. That is not fact." (Lecture SB, Canto 6 Ch 1 text 6, Bombay, Nov 6, 1970)
Srila Prabhupada - "Accepting they reached the moon planet, they might have gone to the part where it is desert or barren land, because in each and every planet there is such possibility. In our, this planet also, when I was passing through the Suez Canal, it is horrible desert.
So if somebody drops in that Arabian desert and concludes that there is no living entity in this planet, it is simply foolish. Similarly, these people are going, maybe going.
First of all, I don't believe they have gone to the Moon frankly speaking but even they have gone, they are landing in some part of the moon planet where there is no inhabitation." (Lecture SB, Canto 6 Ch 1 text 6, Bombay, Nov 6, 1970)
Srila Prabhupada - "Every planet has got special opulence. Just like the moon planet. It is shining. It has got a special opulence—it is shining. The sun planet is so hot and so brilliant. Similarly, each and every planet, either small or big, they have got a particular type of opulence. That is stated in the Brahma-saṁhitā.
Yasya prabhā prabhavato jagadaṇḍa-koṭi-koṭiṣv aśeṣa-vasudhādi-vibhūti-bhinnam (Bs. 5.40).
Vibhūti-bhinnam. In this planet also, different places have got different opulence.
Just like in India you will find throughout the whole year brilliant sunshine, and in Western countries, in London, hellish—always moist, raining, and cloudy. You cannot distinguish whether it is night or day." (Lecture SB, Canto 6 Ch 1 text 6, Bombay, Nov 6, 1970)
Srila Prabhupada - "Every planet, it is congested with living entities. That information given there. That is... The whole bunch of universe is just like a tree. At night you have seen, it is rotating.
On each and every planet there is life, full of life. Don't think there is no life. There is life. Why not there life? If this planet contains so many living entities, why not in other planets? So from Vedic scripture we understand." (Lecture SB, Canto 6 Ch 1 text 20, Honolulu, May 20, 1976)
Srila Prabhupada - "But Kṛṣṇa conscious person, they know how things are going on, how nature is working, what is the effect. Everything we will find in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, how many different planetary systems are there, what is the situation in each and every planet.
You will get all this description in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. We have got description, there are many planets, on these planets there are thousands and millions of miles only gold, thousands and millions of miles only copper. We have got this description from the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam." (Lecture SB, Canto 6 Ch 1 text 32, San Francisco, July 17, 1975)
Srila Prabhupada - "In the Vaikuṇṭhaloka Bhagavān is there in His innumerable forms. There are innumerable Vaikuṇṭhalokas, and in each and every planet there is innumerable devotees. He is not alone.
Advaitam acyutam anantam ananta-rūpam ādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣaṁ nava-yauvanaṁ ca (Bs. 5.33).
So Yamadūtas As the Yamarāja has got his adherent order-carriers, similarly, in the Vaikuṇṭhaloka there are so many order-carriers. In the Vaikuṇṭhaloka there is no a single person who is not a devotee. That is Vaikuṇṭha." (Lecture SB, Canto 6 Ch 2 text 1, Vrndavana, Sept 5, 1975)
Srila Prabhupada - "Just like the sun globe. The sun globe is fiery. The moon, moon planet, it is very pleasing. There is also fire, but it is surrounded by cold atmosphere; therefore it is very pleasing. So vibhūtibbhinnam. Each every planet has got different atmosphere and each and every planet there are different kinds of living entities just suitable for that atmosphere
(Life as we know it on this earth planet does not exist everywhere in the material universe. Life elsewhere like on the Sun and Moon is totally different but we have not the proper eyes or material bodily vessel to see the civilization living on the Sun, the Moon and unlimited other planets).
Don't think that in the sun planet there is no life. There is also life. If there is no life, how Kṛṣṇa says that imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān aham avyayam (BG 4.1) The king of sun planet is known as Vivasvān." (Lecture SB, Canto 7 Ch 5 text 31,Mauritius, Oct 4, 1975)
Srila Prabhupada - "Viṣṇu means all-pervading God. God is everywhere. Just like the sun. The sun is a planet and there is a sun-god also. In each and every planet there is a predominating deity. Just like in this planet you have got a predominating man, president.
Similarly, in each and every planet there is a predominating living creature. In the sun planet the predominating living creature is called sun-god. In the moon planet the predominating deity is called moon-god. And similarly, there are millions of millions of planets and there is a predominating deity. So similarly, the original planet, Kṛṣṇaloka, the predominating Deity is Kṛṣṇa who is Viṣṇu." (Lecture SB, Canto 7 Ch 6 text 1, Montreal, June 10, 1968)
Srila Prabhupada - "Similarly, all living entities, all energy, they are all expansion of Kṛṣṇa. The material energy, the spiritual energy, the marginal energy, they are all expansion. Just like sunlight is the expansion of the sun. And in the sunlight, it is very easy to understand, there are so many planets, and each and every planet have varieties of features, mountains, seas, ocean, trees, or trees. There are varieties of trees, animals, each and every planet. So nothing is void or impersonal. Everything is full of varieties, personalities, so you can understand. And what are these planets?
These planets are called dvīpa. Dvīpa means islands (in both the sea and planets in outerspace) Just like this is an island. We are sitting in this Kauai island." (Lecture SB, Canto 7 Ch 9 text 8, Hawaii, March 21, 1969)
Srila Prabhupada - "What is the reason to believe that there is no life, there is no vegetable? Why? This is lack of knowledge. Everywhere the same varieties. And wherefrom the varieties are coming? From the sunshine. That is fact, scientific.
Because the sunshine is there, so many varieties of planet are coming out, and in each and every planet there are so many varieties of vegetation, human being, animals, seas, mountain. This is explained in the Brahma-saṁhitā:
yasya prabhā prabhavato jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi (Bs. 5.40).
Yasya prabhā. These innumerable universes, how they have been possible? How they are existing?
That is explained in the Brahma-saṁhitā, "On account of Kṛṣṇa's effulgence." You see Kṛṣṇa." (Lecture SB, Canto 7 Ch 9 text 8, Hawaii, March 21, 1969)
Srila Prabhupada - "In the effulgence, bodily effulgence of Govinda, just like the sunshine is effulgence of the sun planet, similarly, Govinda's planet, the original planet, which is called Goloka Vṛndāvana, that is the original effulgence, light.
And when that light is distributed there are innumerable universes created. Just like within the sunlight there are innumerable planets.
So, in each and every planet there are different kinds of living entities, so why not a planet belonging to Christ? There is no doubt about it. There must be." (Lecture SB, Canto 7 Ch 9 text 12-13, Montreal, Aug 20, 1968)
Srila Prabhupada - "This universe is one only. And each and every universe, there are millions of planets. And each of them has got special significance. Just like this Moon planet, the Sun planet, this Earth planet, each one has got significance. Here, the bodies are earthly. In the Sun planet, the bodies are fire. Fiery. Similarly in the Moon planet, the bodies are different. Each and every planet." (The Nectar of Devotion, Bombay, Dec 28, 1972)
Srila Prabhupada - "Just like in your country, the President is the controller. In other country somebody is controller. So there are many hundreds and thousands of planets within this universe, and each and every planet there is a controller, the sun planet, there is a controller. His name is Vivasvān, that we find.
Similarly, the moon planet, there is a controller. Every planet, there is controller. And above all of them there is another supreme controller of the universe, the Brahma, and there are many millions of brahmāṇḍas, or universes. So there are controllers. But so far Kṛṣṇa is concerned, He is described in the śāstras, Brahma-saṁhitā, īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ (Bs. 5.1). There are controllers, but the supreme controller is Kṛṣṇa." (Lecture CC Madhya-lila 20.98-99, Washington, D.C., July 4, 1976)
Srila Prabhupada - "Therefore we see New York City is congested with so many living entities. But if you go higher, then you cannot appreciate how New York City is so congested, or other cities are congested.
So similarly, we have no knowledge of these planets, but each and every planet, millions and trillions, they are all congested, full with living entities. This is Vedic information. It is not imagination, imperfect imagination. No. It is fact. So we learn from the śāstra that on account of illumination of the moon, the vegetation in every planet is, I mean to say, flourishing condition, due to the moon. Still, we find reaction of the moon on the waves of the seas and ocean. So everything has got its necessity. Parasya brahmaṇaḥ śaktir." (Lecture CC Madhya-lila 20.110, New York City, July 17, 1976)
Srila Prabhupada - "We know that in the moon planet, in the Mars planet and all other planets, Jupiter and others, there are living entities, there is a predominating deity in each and every planet. Just like Kṛṣṇa says, imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān aham avyayam (BG 4.1).
So, if there is no living entity in the sun planet, how there is Vivasvān, the sun-god or the predominating deity in the sun planet?
So, we cannot believe this version that there is no living entity in the sun, moon, or on so many planets There are living entities everywhere, janakīrṇa, this word is used. Congested. Just like here in this planet we are congested: so many living entities, different varieties." (Lecture CC Madhya-lila 20.113, London, July 23, 1976)
Srila Prabhupada - "So in the spiritual sky, in that spiritual light, in that spiritual planets, there are innumerable liberated living entities, and each, each and every planet, there is expansion of Lord Kṛṣṇa. They are named by different names.
Ṣaḍ-aiśvarya-pūrṇa yāṅra goloka-nitya-dhāma.
So origin. He is the origin. His planet, Goloka Vṛndāvana, is the original planet, and from that planet, that brahmajyoti, light, is coming. And in that light, everything is resting." (Lecture CC Madhya-lila 20.154-157, New York City, Dec 7, 1966)
Srila Prabhupada - "There is no reason to disbelieve that in, in the, in other planets there is no life, there is no variegatedness. No. According to Vedic literature, it is not acceptable. Each and every planet, there is variegatedness as we find in this planet.
The difference is that in some of the planets earthly matter is prominent, some of the planets fiery elements are prominent. So, in the sun, sun planet, fiery elements is very prominent. There the living entities and everything, they are made of fire." (Lecture CC Madhya-lila 20.156-163, New York City, Dec 11, 1966)
Srila Prabhupada - "And in each and every planet there are innumerable devotees. He's surrounded by the innumerable devotees.
And He's reciting evidences, verse from Brahma-saṁhitā:
goloka-nāmni nija-dhāmni tale ca tasya
devī-maheśa-hari-dhāmasu teṣu teṣu
te te prabhāva-nicayā vihitāś ca yena
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
(Bs. 5.43)
His own personal planet is Goloka Vṛndāvana, and below that planet there are many other, innumerable planets which are known as Vaikuṇṭha. And below that spiritual world there is material world." (Lecture CC Madhya-lila 21.13-49, New York City, Jan 4, 1967)
Srila Prabhupada - "Without sunlight, your eyes are useless. Therefore sun is the eyes for all planets. All planets means all the residents of each and every planet.
Yac-cakṣur eṣa savitā sakala-grahāṇāṁ rājā samasta-sura-mūrtiḥ.
Therefore he is the king of all planets. These are described in Brahma-saṁhitā. Aśeṣa-tejaḥ, unlimited potencies or unlimited heat.
There is no limit how much heat is there in the sun globe. So that sun also rotating. Yasyājñayā bhramati sambhṛta-kāla-cakro. That sun is also rotating under the guidance of Kṛṣṇa.
Therefore Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme. Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. The sun is rotating; it has got its orbit. It is rotating sixteen thousand miles per second. It is rotating. That you cannot deny. These are facts described." (Lecture, Hawaii, March 30, 1969)
Srila Prabhupada - "We get all information from the śāstra. Each and every planet has got a predominating personality. Just like we have got on this planet, a few presidents.
But in other planets, there are also presidents, and their name is also... Because the duration of other planet is very, very great.
The topmost planet, which is known as Brahmaloka, that is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, sahasra-yuga-paryantam ahar yad brahmaṇo viduḥ (BG 8.17).
Many millions of years, sahasra-yuga. One yuga means forty-three hundred thousands of solar years, and multiply it by one thousand. That becomes the duration of one day in the Brahmaloka. So in different planets, there are different duration of life, different standard of life." (Lecture at World Health Organization, Geneva, June 6, 1974)
Srila Prabhupada - "So if we like, we can go to the higher planetary system, heavenly planetary system. Just like we are trying to go to the moon planet, but we have not been successful. In this way we can go there. Each and every planet, has got different atmosphere. So unless your body is completely competent to live in such planet, you cannot go there. Just like the scientists say that in the moon planet the temperature is two hundred degrees below zero. Similarly, in the sun planet, the temperature is very, very high, hundred and thousand times degrees above the normal." (Germany, June 22, 1974)
Srila Prabhupada - "Therefore we should NOT be interested to these different types of temporary bodies. That is not very good intelligence. So we have to prepare ourself, if we want. There are the full description of each and every planet, and we can prepare ourself according to our desire which planet we wish to go. But Kṛṣṇa says, mad-yājino 'pi yānti mām: (BG 9.25) "Persons who are engaged in My occupational duties, they will come to Me." (Germany, June 22, 1974)
Srila Prabhupada - "You have seen on the cover of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam there are different planets, and each and every planet there is the predominating Deity, Nārāyaṇa, Viṣṇu. They have got different names. So, He is always associated with His eternal consort as well as devotees, many thousand, millions, in the spiritual world.
The creation of the material world is one-fourth demonstration of the whole creation, and this is one of the universes. In the material world there are innumerable universes." (Lecture London, March 12, 1975)
Srila Prabhupāda - "Try to understand, this matter consists of five elements, earth, water, fire, air, ether. And then, still subtler than ether is the mind, and then, subtler than the mind is intelligence, and subtler than intelligence is the spirit soul. So, before we reach our spiritual platform, there are so many elementary material platforms.
So, in different planets one of the element is prominent, just like we can experience in the ocean and sea the water is prominent. In the land earth is prominent. Similarly, in different, just like in the sun planet fire is prominent.
So in each and every planet there are particular type of body, particular type of residents. You cannot expect that the same type of body and same type of residents are there." (Interview with LA Times Reporter Dec 26, 1968, Los Angeles)
Srila Prabhupāda - "We are drinking water for the taste. That taste is Kṛṣṇa. Similarly, if you explain this law of gravitation, which we have discovered, is Kṛṣṇa, prove it by your scientific knowledge, that will be your service. Actually that is a fact. That is the fact.
But you have to explain, just like I have given you this example. This is scientific. As you can float a balloon by creating helium gas, so there must be some gas like that; Kṛṣṇa enters into each and every planet or universe and it floats, that's all. They, not only the planets are floating, the universes are also floating. So you accept this theory or not? If not, clearly explain."
Martin - I cannot reject your explanation." (Room Conversation May 4, 1972, Mexico)
Srila Prabhupāda - "So we are concerned with Krishna Consciousness, and even though there is some difference of opinion between modern science and allegorical explanation in the Bhagavat, we have to take the essence of Srimad-Bhagavatam and utilize it for our higher benefit, without bothering about the correctness of the modern science or the allegorical explanation sometimes made in Srimad-Bhagavatam.
But this is a fact that in each and every planet there is a predominant deity, as we have got experience in this planet there is a president, so it is not wonderful when the predominating deity fights with another predominating deity of another planet.
The modern science takes everything as dead stone. We take it for granted that everything is being manipulated by a person in each and every affair of the cosmology." (Letter to Krsnadasa, Vrindaban 7 Nov, 1972).^^^..
