Law of Relativity | Srila Prabhupada

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Law of Relativity | Srila Prabhupada
Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.3.15, Los Angeles, September 20, 1972 — […] We are calculating the years, time is also relative. That is the latest theory of the scientists, law of relativity. My hundred years and Brahma’s hundred years and an ant’s hundred years, a germ’s hundred years, they are not the same.

Similarly time calculation, if you go in the upper planetary system, that time calculation is different. Just like in modern age, the sputnik age, they are flying sputnik. The first sputnik flight, they circumambulated this earth three times in one twenty-five hour and minutes.

And they saw that there is night and day. Here in this planet our night and day experience is twenty-four hours. But as soon as you leave this planet, you fly in a different speed, there is three times night and day in one hour and minutes.

So similarly everyone lives hundred years, but that hundred years are all relative. An ant’s hundred years and man’s hundred years is not the same. Similarly, a man’s hundred years and a demigod’s hundred years not the same. In different planetary system the time is… Similarly, if you go still up and up, the time is relative.

So we are calculating our three thousand years, four thousand years in our system. That three thousand or four thousand years, as soon as you go little up, it become one hour, twenty-five minutes. So Brahma’s one day is different. But it is stated in the Bhagavad-gita… You know, who are reading Bhagavad-gita.

Sahasra-yuga-paryantam ahar yad brahmano viduh [Bg. 8.17]. You try to understand Brahma’s one day equal to our one thousand times of the yugas. And the yugas, as I have already explained… The Satya-yuga, 1800,000’s of years; Treta-yuga, 1200,000’s of years.

In the Satya-yuga people used to live for 100,000’s of years. Valmiki Muni, he practiced yoga for 60,000’s of years. So unless one has got 100,000’s of years duration of life, how he could practice 60,000’s of years? So we should understand, everything is relative. This is called relative world. Relativity, law of relativity.
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