Prabhupāda: [harmonium, mṛdaṅga, karatālas] [02:00] [break] play like this… [plays mṛdaṅga] Can you play like this… [plays mṛdaṅga, vocalises beat] All right.

Prabhupāda: In psychology there is study brain substance. Brain substance of all men are not equal. Is it known to the scientist? Brain substance? Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes. I think it is known because when Einstein died they tried to preserve the brain of Einstein. Thinking that his brain was different from others. Prabhupāda: If it was not different then how he became distinguished? Svarūpa Dāmodara: The brain substance is different just like everybody intelligence different. Prabhupāda: Yes. According to the brain substance there is difference of intelligence. Karāndhara: They attribute a lot more factors too like environment, the government. Prabhupāda: Anyway, so relative brain, relative life [indistinct] just like the duration of life of Brahmā is different from the duration of life of Hitler. So relatively there are so many different species of life living entities, do the scientists agree or not?

So in the previous verses all the incarnations of God, they have been given there—father’s name, mother’s name. Kṛṣṇa avatāra also, His father’s name, mother’s name is there. But here, Narasiṁha, there is no name of the father and mother. This verse is peculiar that there is no names. Why? Because this Narasiṁha incarnation came out of a column. Hiraṇyakaśipu was so angry talking with his son. He saw that his son is very strongly Kṛṣṇa conscious; he could not induce him to forget Kṛṣṇa. So he was very angry. So he was ready to kill him with his sword. At that time Prahlāda Mahārāja, the little boy, five years old, he was just looking at the column in the hall. So his father marked it and immediately asked, “Do you think your God is there in the column?” He said, “Yes, my father.” Immediately he broke the column, and Nṛsiṁha came out. Therefore God is everywhere, not that because God takes birth as human being, from the womb of a human being, it does not mean that He is ordinary human being. He can come out from any source—not necessarily that He has to, but when He plays like a human being, He comes out like that, as if Devakī has become pregnant and the child is there within the womb. But that was simply a conception. Actually, when Kṛṣṇa appeared before His father and mother, He appeared as Lord Viṣṇu, four-handed. So later on, He became like ordinary child.

Prabhupāda: Nowadays, ladies, they can understand. This is the process. Mad-bhāvam āgatāḥ. Our this human form of life is meant for going back to Kṛṣṇa, back to home, back to Godhead. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is giving information to the people in general how to make life successful. What is that successful life? To go back to home, back to Godhead. This is not our home. This material world, this is foreign country. We are… Just like I am traveling all over the world. My home is in India, but I am going to so many countries—Europe, America, Canada, Australia, Africa—but my home is in India. This is a crude example. Similarly, we are all part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa. Mamaivāṁśo jīva-bhūtaḥ. Kṛṣṇa says. “All these living entities, they are My part and parcel.” So Kṛṣṇa is sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ. Kṛṣṇa, His body is not material body. Those who are thinking Kṛṣṇa’s body as material, they are called Māyāvādī. But actually, Kṛṣṇa’s body is not material. The evidence is that Kṛṣṇa knows past, present and future. In the material body that is not possible. Just like I had my previous body in my previous birth, but I don’t remember. If somebody asks me, “What you were in your previous life?” it is very difficult, because death means forgetfulness. We are not dying. So far we are, living entities, are concerned, we are not dying. Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre. We do not die. This is a ...

So Aśvatthāmā’s brahmāstra… We have discussed about brahmāstra. It is almost similar to the modern nuclear weapon or bomb, but it is made with chemicals, but this brahmāstra is made of mantra. That is the subtle way. Modern science has not reached to that point of subtle existence. Therefore they cannot understand how transmigration of the soul takes place. The modern science has no knowledge. Imperfect knowledge. They see the gross body, but they have no knowledge about the subtle body. But the subtle body is there. Just like we do not see your mind, but I know that you have got mind. You do not see my mind, but you know that I have got mind. Mind, intelligence and ego. My conception, identity, “I am,” that conception is there. That is ego. And my intelligence and my mind, you cannot see, neither I can see. Therefore how the mind, intelligence and personal identity, or egotism, carries the soul to other body, they do not see it. They cannot see it. They see the gross body is stopped, everything is stopped. The gross body is burned into ashes; therefore they think everything is finished. Bhasmī-bhūtasya dehasya kutaḥ punar āgamano bhaved [Cārvāka Muni]. The atheist class, they’ll think like that. With poor fund of knowledge, they think that “I see the body is now burnt into ashes. Then where is the soul?” So “There is no soul, there is no God, it is all imagination.” But that is not the fact; not that is the fact. The fact is that the gross body ...