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"how could you measure the spiritual phenomenon with something like one-thousandth of the tip of the hair"

Lectures

Philosophy Discussions

Because you have no spiritual vision, therefore you have to be understood by material example.
Philosophy Discussion on Henri Bergson:

Śyāmasundara: His conception of the soul, which he calls elan vital in French language, means the vital impulse.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Vital..., this is living force, vital force. (indistinct), it is never addressed. God has (indistinct) for the mind, for the intelligence, for the body, God has (indistinct).

Śyāmasundara: Is it (indistinct) in the same quantity in every body, in every living body?

Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. Same quantity. The same measurement: one ten-thousandth part of the tip of the hair.

Śyāmasundara: I mean the energy, the amount of energy.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. That much, that spiritual energy is everywhere, in the ant or in the elephant.

Atreya Ṛṣi: Prabhupāda, you mentioned the size of the soul, and this size seems to connote a physical size. Now, my question is: in the spiritual world, size, it seems that it is a material concept, it is a relative thing, distance...

Prabhupāda: Material size and spiritual size is not the same. Spiritual size is permanent; material size is changing.

Atreya Ṛṣi: In other words, how could you measure the spiritual phenomenon with something like one-thousandth of the tip of the hair? Hair is material.

Prabhupāda: No. Because you have no spiritual vision, therefore you have to be understood by material example.

Atreya Ṛṣi: That's an example.

Prabhupāda: Yes.