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Soul, the spiritual spark, even in minute quantity, it can float the heaviest matter. This is the conclusion. If the pilot is killed some way or other, no more floating, come down

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"soul, the spiritual spark, even in minute quantity, it can float the heaviest matter. This is the conclusion. (break) . . . so high, and if the pilot is killed some way or other, no more floating, come down."

Conversations and Morning Walks

1974 Conversations and Morning Walks

A dead body immediately goes down in the water, but a living body floats. So this is the example, that because viṣṭabhyāham idaṁ kṛtsnam ekāṁśena sthita (BG 10.42). Because Kṛṣṇa enters this material world as Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, as Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, therefore it floats. Just like this aeroplane: it is floating so long the pilot is there. If the pilot is not there, it will not float, however good machine it may be. It will not float; it will come down. These are the ex . . . (break) . . . soul, the spiritual spark, even in minute quantity, it can float the heaviest matter. This is the conclusion. (break) . . . so high, and if the pilot is killed some way or other, no more floating, come down.

Prabhupāda:  A dead body immediately goes down in the water, but a living body floats. So this is the example, that because viṣṭabhyāham idaṁ kṛtsnam ekāṁśena sthita (BG 10.42). Because Kṛṣṇa enters this material world as Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, as Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, therefore it floats. Just like this aeroplane: it is floating so long the pilot is there. If the pilot is not there, it will not float, however good machine it may be. It will not float; it will come down. These are the ex . . . (break) . . . soul, the spiritual spark, even in minute quantity, it can float the heaviest matter. This is the conclusion. (break) . . . so high, and if the pilot is killed some way or other, no more floating, come down.

Mahāṁsa: So this laghimā siddhi is also being attained by the material scientists?

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Mahāṁsa: This is also a siddhi, that they can invent a plane . . .?

Prabhupāda: To some extent.

Mahāṁsa: To some extent.

Prabhupāda: By material arrangement . . . the yogīs can do still more. Without any material machine, they can float. They can walk on the water, becomes light. (break) . . . man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru (BG 18.65). This is the process.

(break) . . . colleges, the students are being educated there is no God. And they expect good behavior from them. And when they set fire in the bus, that is . . . "The students are so dangerous now." But you have made them dangerous, the educational system. They are protesting against the existence of God. (break) . . . so-called svāmīs. And they are also accelerating, "Yes, no more. There is no God. Why you are searching God anywhere? There are so many Gods loitering in the street. They are God." That is the statement of Vivekananda. "Why you are finding out, trying to find out God elsewhere. These are Gods." You see? (break) . . . if required, one may come, very easily, one may take some time. But we should go on preaching.

Page Title:Soul, the spiritual spark, even in minute quantity, it can float the heaviest matter. This is the conclusion. If the pilot is killed some way or other, no more floating, come down
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-11-30, 14:49:36.000
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1