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Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [Prabhupāda and devotees respond]

bhrājiṣṇubhir yaḥ parito virājate lasad-vimānāvalibhir mahātmanām vidyotamānaḥ pramadottamādyubhiḥ savidyud abhrāvalibhir yathā nabhaḥ

[SB 2.9.13]

[break]

Prabhupāda: Next. [devotees take turns chanting verse, with Prabhupāda correcting pronunciation]

[break] "...bhir, by the glowing."

[03:03]

Pradyumna: yaḥ---the Vaikuṇṭhalokas. [break]

"The Vaikuṇṭha planets are also surrounded by various airplanes, all glowing and brilliantly situated, belonging to the great mahātmās, or …

Prabhupāda: Hmm. So there is no scarcity of aeroplanes in Vaikuṇṭhaloka. It is not nirviśeṣa, zero. The rascals, they do …

Now, how this information received? When Bhāgavata was compiled five thousand years ago, there was no existence of aeroplane. But …

Śyāmasundara: Apelike creatures.

Prabhupāda: So how this nonsense theory can be accepted? Huh? According to our Vedic information, from the very beginning the …

So knowledge has not developed with the development of the brain of the living entities. That is a wrong theory. …

What is the purport?

Pradyumna: Purport = "It appears that in the Vaikuṇṭha planets there are airplanes also, brilliantly glowing, and they are occupied …

"As there are airplanes, ladies and gentlemen, so there must be cities and houses and everything else just suitable to …

Prabhupāda: Hmm. So in all other planets, not only within this material world, but also in the spiritual world... There …

Pradyumna: Bahu-rūpa ivābhāti māyayā bahu-rūpayā [SB 2.9.2].

Prabhupāda: Where is that verse?