If we define the definition what is living and what is non-living, so living means that contains consciousness. And the non-living, that has no consciousness?

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"And the non-living, that has no consciousness" |"if we define the definition what is living and what is non-living, so living means that contains consciousness"

1973 Conversations and Morning Walks

That is the difference. That is defined in Bhagavad-gītā.

Morning Walk -- May 12, 1973, Los Angeles:

Svarūpa Dāmodara: But there are also non-living matters like crystals. They can grow. We can divide them, and it will reproduce like...

Prabhupāda: No, without living entity within, nothing can grow.

Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes. So some are saying that when they make these chemicals like the big molecules that we were talking about, DNA... And they are saying that DNA can make its own replication, means it can make another chain of molecules by its own. So they are saying that it is living.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Svarūpa Dāmodara: And some are saying that it's not living.

Prabhupāda: That means their knowledge is imperfect. Somebody is saying something somebody is saying something. That means imperfect.

Svarūpa Dāmodara: So if we define the definition what is living and what is non-living, so living means that contains consciousness.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Svarūpa Dāmodara: And the non-living, that has no consciousness.

Prabhupāda: No. That is the difference. That is defined in Bhagavad-gītā. Avināśi tu tad viddhi yena sarvam idaṁ tatam. That thing which is spread all over your body, that is avināśi, that is eternal. Antavanta ime dehā (BG 2.18). This, what is said... The body is antavantaḥ, perishable. Nityasyoktāḥ śarīriṇaḥ. And the spirit within the body, that is eternal. That they cannot understand.