Prabhupada: Nothing happens accidentally. According to Vedic literature, there is no such word as "accident." The word is adrsta [unseen]: there is cause; I cannot see it. Adrsta. It is not in my vision, but there is cause. There is no question of accident.

Harikesa: What about when somebody is born with three arms or eight toes?

Prabhupada: There is karma, cause, but I cannot ascertain. To me the cause is invisible. Therefore we take adrsta. But there is cause.

> Room Conversation — October 14, 1975, Johannesburg