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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]]
[[Category:Questions On... Bhagavad-gita]]
[[Category:Questions On... Devotee Standards, Etiquette]]
[[Category:Questions From... Religious Clergy]]
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<div class="heading">Equal vision means that I don't make any distinction between you and a dog.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Jesuit -- May 19, 1975, Melbourne|Room Conversation with Jesuit -- May 19, 1975, Melbourne]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee:</p>
:vidyā-vinaya-sampanne
:brāhmaṇe gavi hastini
:śuni caiva śva-pāke ca
:paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ
:([[Vanisource:BG 5.18 (1972)|BG 5.18]])
<p>Translation: "The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision the learned and gentle brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater (outcaste)."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Mm. Just read again.</p>
<p>Devotee: "The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Equal vision.</p>
<p>Jesuit: Equal vision.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Equal vision.</p>
<p>Jesuit: What does that mean, equal vision?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Equal vision means that I don't make any distinction between you and a dog.</p>
<p>Jesuit: You make no distinction...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, this is spiritual vision because a paṇḍita, paṇḍita means learned man, his equal vision means he does not make any difference between the souls. The dog has got also soul and the learned scholar has got also soul. But the soul is covered by the dog's body, and here the soul is covered by the learned scholar's body. Actually both of them are souls, part and parcel of God.</p>
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