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<div class="heading">No, equal and the same. Qualitatively and quantitatively.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Talk with Bob Cohen -- February 27-29, 1972, Mayapura|Talk with Bob Cohen -- February 27-29, 1972, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Bob: If two people are Kṛṣṇa conscious, is their soul the same?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Soul is always the same.</p>
<p>Bob: In each person. In each person is it the same?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. (break) Soul, as spirit soul, pure soul, they are all equal. Even in animal. Therefore it is said, paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 5.18|BG 5.18]]), means those who are actually learned, they do not see the outward covering, either human being or animal.</p>
<p>Bob: Oh, then they are all equal and the same, or just equal? Are they equal and the same, or are they just equal?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, equal and the same. Qualitatively and quantitatively.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: I thought there was also a difference.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh?</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Isn't there also individuality and difference?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Their individuality becomes different in accordance with the development of consciousness.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Oh. The soul before the development of consciousness...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. So therefore, when one comes to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then there is no difference. (break) Because their aim is at that time how to... (break) ...and that is nice.</p>
<p>Bob: But they are the same because they are flowers.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Bob: In that sense.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Same. That is acintya-bhedābheda philosophy. That everything is one and different simultaneously.</p>
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