My dear King, these people who are in this material world they are all in darkness. That's a fact. Without being sinful nobody comes into this material world. Either he may be Brahmā or an insignificant ant. Brahmā is the most important personality or creature within this universe. An ant or insect nobody cares for it. You see? But both of them are the same living entity. That small spark. An elephant, gigantic body and an insect has minute body. Even you have to see with the microscope, you can't see with naked eyes. Both of them are living entities and both of them have the same spiritual spark. That is measured, I have several times explained. The measurement of spirit soul is there in the śāstras. That is one ten thousandth part of the tip of your hair. So you have no knowledge or instrument how to see that minute particle of soul. But there is measurement. There is measurement it is in the śāstra. So that smallest particle, part and parcel of God is in everyone of us. That is not born, that is there always existing. Na jāyate mriyate vā (BG 2.20).
That particle, smallest particle soul never takes birth, neither dies. That is eternal. But the death—birth and death is of different kinds of body. Designation, it is in the śāstra it is called—upādhiḥ. Upādhiḥ, just like you have got an American designation due to the body. You are thinking, "I am American." Why you are thinking American? Because you have got this birth of this body in America. That's all. Similarly I am thinking of India because this body is made in India. That's all. But so far the spirit soul is concerned it is the same. It is the same. So this body we get within this material world according to pious or impious activities. Those who are very pious . . . pious means in this sense; in the worldly sense, morality. This is considered as morality, charity.