Wikipedia: "The Mechanitis Butterfly in disguise,like a golden mirror that mimics the surrounding plants, to camouflage and confuse predators. This is an intentional case of false identity, where the forming butterfly within will hopefully be mistaken by its predators for something else."
Prabhupada: …They have discovered so many… Can they fly like the birds are flying, all together? There is no collision. They can go with full force. There is no collision. They haven’t got even intelligence like the birds. And they’re proud. If a small bird, they’ll fly together, flock together, with great force, they’ll not collapse. Can the scientists arrange flying like that. Immediately, they’ll be all smashed. Still, they’re proud of intelligence. What intelligence you have got? You are less intelligent than the birds.
Karandhara: The ants also can walk.
Prabhupada: Eh?
Karandhara: The ants, thousands of them without colliding. But the cars, they’re always colliding.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Svarupa Damodara: The living entities, when the soul is inside a body, they’re much more flexible than the, the aeroplanes or cars that are made by the scientists?
Prabhupada: Yes. The aeroplane wings, they’re fixed up. But the bird wings, he can do like this. Even they can do like that, where is the credit? It is already there. Many millions and thousands. (pause)
Svarupa Damodara: In physical sciences, there’s a branch called thermodynamics that deals with the transfer of heat and energy in different forms. So their three laws is called first law, second law and the third law. First law deals with the conservation of energy in different forms. And the second law, it is stated that the energy of the universe is constant. Just like the, in the Sri Isopanisad, the Invocation, purna…
Prabhupada: Yes. Purnat purnam udacyate, purnasya purnam adaya purnam evavasisyate. Full Conversation
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