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Prabhupāda: [leads singing of Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava] [prema-dhvani] Thank you very much. Hare Krsna.

Devotees: All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda, Ācāryadeva. [obeisances] [break]

Pradyumna: ...bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.

Canto One, Chapter 3, text 15. [leads chanting of verse] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat]

rūpaṁ sa jagṛhe mātsyaṁ cākṣuṣodadhi-samplave nāvy āropya mahī-mayyām apād vaivasvataṁ manum

[SB 1.3.15]

Prabhupāda: Ladies, ladies. [ladies chant] So, word meaning.

Pradyumna: [leads chanting of synonyms]

rūpam---form; saḥ---He; jagṛhe---accepted; mātsyam---of a fish; cākṣuṣa---Cākṣuṣa; udadhi---water; samplave---inundation; nāvi---on the boat; āropya---keeping on; mahī---the earth; mayyām---drowned in; apāt---protected; vaivasvatam---Vaivasvata; …

[11:56]

Translation = "When there was a complete inundation after the period of the Cākṣuṣa Manu and the whole world was …

Prabhupāda: Hmm. So here is history also. This Vedic history is not that for one thousand years or two thousand …

sahasra-yuga-paryantam ahar yad brahmaṇo viduḥ [Bg. 8.17].

So Brahmā's one day means one thousand times of the yugas. The yugas means the Satya-yuga, Kali-yuga and..., Tretā-yuga, Dvāpara-yuga …

We are calculating the years, the time also relative. That is the latest theory of the scientist, law of relativity. …

But as soon as you leave this planet, you fly in a different speed, there is three times night and …

So we are calculating our three thousand years, four thousand years in our system. That three thousand or four thousand …

And the yugas, as I have already explained... The Satya-yuga, 1800,000's of years; Tretā-yuga, 1200,000's of years. In the Satya-yuga …

So Brahmā's one day means 4300,000's of years of our calculation. Forty-three hundred thousands of years; little more. That is …

imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān aham avyayam... manur ikṣvākave 'bravīt vivasvān manave prāha manur ikṣvākave 'bravīt