Nalinī-kaṇṭa: The impersonalists that denounce Kṛṣṇa, are they better than the person who is ignorant of eternity?
Prabhupāda: Who is he ignorant of?
Bahulāśva: The common man.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Are the impersonalists better than the gross materialists?
Prabhupāda: Yes. That is Śaṅkara's philosophy: brahma satyaṁ jagan mithyā. That is his philosophy. Brahman means that spirit soul, that is fact. And this material external, that is false. A little advanced than the Buddha philosophy.
Bahulāśva: Śrīla Prabhupāda, how is it that they describe the soul, the impersonalists?
Prabhupāda: Because they have no eyes to see. They say that "The body is finished. Now. . ." Gatākāśa potakāśa. They give the example, just like within the pot there is sky, and outside the pot there is sky, and when the pot is broken, the within sky mixes with the outside sky.
Bahulāśva: So we say that within the pot, or the body, there is consciousness, and that remains eternally individual.
Prabhupāda: Yes. That is said by Kṛṣṇa. It is not our imagination.
Bahulāśva: So the eternal characteristic of the self, then, is that he is pure consciousness.
Prabhupāda: Pure consciousness, Kṛṣṇa consciousness. He knows that "I am part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa." That is pure consciousness.
Bahulāśva: And therefore His servant.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Part and parcel means servant. Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Bahulāśva: Would you like to walk further, Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: No. What is the time now?
Bahulāśva: It's twenty to seven.
Prabhupāda: That's all right. Let us go.
Jayatīrtha: It's time to go.