Pankaja_Dasa 1 Report post Posted March 22, 2005 This is a conversation I came across in the Folio InfoBase. It basically tells you where the Dinosaurs came from, what they actually are. Are they really extinct? All your answers will be nullified and doubts dispelled. ! I am surprized nobody came across this before. The parts which I think are most prominent for me are bolded. Actually the entire conversation is appropraite. So please read every word.! From a Morning Walk, June 8, 1976, Los Angeles _____________ Ramesvara: Srila Prabhupada, I was once told by some devotees that you had said in some previous age of Kali, the dinosaurs, gigantic animals, were on the earth. Prabhupada: I said? Ramesvara: They say that you said. (laughs) Prabhupada: (laughs) I never said. I never bother with these nonsense things. Ramesvara: They have got so many bones in the museums showing these gigantic animals. Prabhupada: Not gigantic. There are bones. But that animal is still there, whalefish. Ramesvara: Whalefish. Prabhupada: Oh, yes. Very big body. Ramesvara: Some have become extinct. Prabhupada: Why they should be extinct? Hrdayananda: No longer on the earth. Ramesvara: No longer on this planet. Prabhupada: (too much noise) Not necessarily. They are within the ocean. Hari-sauri: No, other animals. Prabhupada: What other animals? Ramesvara: Those gigantic, they called them... Hrdayananda: Brontasaurus. Ramesvara: Tyrannasaurus. Gigantic animals, they say are meat-eaters. Hrdayananda: Dinosaurus. Hari-sauri: Tetrasaurus. Prabhupada: Another imagination. These are actual facts.(?) Hari-sauri: They just made up different compositions of bones and then drew some outlines on them. Prabhupada: Yes. They are imagination. Hari-sauri: But you said in Hawaii though that there are some animals that are as big as skyscrapers? Prabhupada: Yes, these are birds. It is far from this earth though. They travel from one planet to another. Ramesvara: So these bones that they have found of these gigantic animals, they were all living underneath the water. Prabhupada: Yes. Ramesvara: Not on the land. Prabhupada: Maybe. But the list is there: jalaja nava-laksani. There are 900,000 different forms, and how many we have seen? There is information in the sastra. Pasavas trimsal-laksani. Three million different types of animals. Hari-sauri: We've seen a few hundred at most. Prabhupada: That's all. (laughs) That is also doubtful Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
