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If the soul is important in this body, why there shall not be bigger soul, the Supersoul, in this gigantic body? What is this universal body and this body? The same thing. It is only small, and that is very big. The same material construction.
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So anyone can understand that this body may be very, very important—scientist, politicians and so on, so on. But as soon as the soul is gone from this body, it is useless, not worth even a farthing. Anyone can understand. Similarly, as the soul is the important thing in this body, my body, your body or anyone's body, similarly in this huge, gigantic body of universe, there must be one soul. Otherwise how it is going on? How it is working so nicely? The big sun is rising exactly in time, the moon is rising exactly in time, the seasons are changing one after another. So many millions and millions of living entities, they are being maintained. Everyone is getting their food, even the elephant, who eats at a time hundred kilogram, he also eats. An ant also eats. The birds also eat, the beast also eats—there is no problem. Only the civilized man, so-called civilized man, he creates problem, because ''duṣkṛtina''. He has got merit, but it is being used for sinful activities. Therefore there is problem. Otherwise there is no . . . if the birds have no problem, the beasts have no problem, the ant has no problem, why the civilized man has got problem? Because they are ''duṣkṛtina'' and ''mūḍha''. Rascal, and always engaged in sinful activities, ''duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ''. Simple thing.

If the soul is important in this body, why there shall not be bigger soul, the Supersoul, in this gigantic body? What is this universal body and this body? The same thing. It is only small, and that is very big. The same material construction. ''Bhūmir āpo 'nalo vāyuḥ'' ([[vanisource:BG 7.4 (1972)|BG 7.4]]), this earth, water, air. Just like you have got your bones, the huge earth mountain, that is also another bone of this gigantic body. As you have got your hairs on the body, the millions and millions of trees and plants, they are also the hairs of the gigantic body. So as you have got holes in your body here, there, and the navel, similarly these oceans and seas, they are also different holes. So they are described—it is not my imagination—they are described in the ''Bhagavad-gī'' . . . ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'', Second Canto, to conceive the gigantic body. As you have got your skull, the round skull, the whole, I mean to say, hemisphere is also skull of this gigantic body. It is similar. As you have got a body and you, the soul, is the important thing, active principle within this body, similarly this gigantic body, the active principle is there, that is we call from the ''śāstra'' Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. The same comparison. But because they are ''mūḍha'', rascal, they cannot understand it. No brain.