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Real or symbolic – Lecture excerpt quoted by Indradyumna Swami

Real or symbolic – Lecture excerpt quoted by Indradyumna Swami

Devotee: “It says in the scriptures that Lord Brahma rides on a swan. Do we take this to mean it’s a real swan, or is it symbolic?”

Prabhupada: “Not symbolic, it is fact. Why do you say symbolic?”

Devotee: “Because it’s rather unusual.”

Prabhupada: “Unusual? What experience have you got? (laughter) You have no experience. Have you got experience of other planetary systems, what is there? Your experience is very tiny. So you should not calculate Brahma’s life and other things by your tiny experience.”

[ Lecture, SB 6.1.3, Melbourne, May 22, 1975 ]

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