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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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Agra means tip; keśa means hair. Just imagine—very small point. And you have to divide it into ten thousand parts. And that one part is the dimension of the living entity, spirit soul, spark. Everything is there in the śāstra. But because we have no eyes to see . . .

Our material eyes cannot see what is the dimension of the soul. But the soul is there within this body. And as soon as the soul departs, or takes another body according to the work the soul is doing here, there is superior superintendence. Karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa (SB 3.31.1).
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[[Vanisource:710722 - Lecture SB 06.01.08 - New York|710722 - Lecture SB 06.01.08 - New York]]
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So killing is not allowed in any religious principle. Anyone who is killing, he's not considered in the human society. You cannot kill. The . . . Lord Buddha's also principle is ahiṁsā paramo dharmaḥ, no killing. Lord Jesus Christ also says: "Thou shall not kill." In our Bhagavad-gītā it is also said, amānitvam adambhitvam ahiṁsā ([[Vanisource:BG 13.8-12 (1972)|BG 13.8]]). Ahiṁsā means not to become violent, not to kill.

So as there is state laws that you shall be killed if you kill your fellow man, similarly, in the God's law there are the same thing. Not only man; if you kill anyone, then you'll have to suffer, because everyone is God's creature. They are in different dress only. He's considered the supreme father. So father may have many children—one is not very intelligent, another is very intelligent.

And if the intelligent son says to the father that, "This, my brother, is not intelligent. Let me kill him," will the father allow? Because his one son is not very intelligent, and if the intelligent son desires to kill him to avoid the burden, will the father agree to this? No. Similarly, if God is the supreme father, how He can sanction that you live and you kill animal? The animals are also His sons. So there is no justice. In the Bhagavad-gītā, God claims:

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:sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya'
:sambhavanti mūrtayaḥ yāḥ
:tāsāṁ mahad-yonir brahma
:ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā 
:([[Vanisource:BG 14.4 (1972)|BG 14.4]])
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"Arjuna, all living entities in different species of life . . ." There are 8,400,000 species of life. They're all sons of God. Ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā. The Lord says: "I am the seed-giving father." Just like in ordinary birth, the father gives the seed, and the mother develops the body. Mother, by her blood, she supplies the ingredients of developing the child in the embryo. That is law's nature. Similarly, we living entities, we are part and parcel of the supreme father.

We are very minute. The dimension is also given there in the śāstras: keśāgra-śata-bhāgasya śatadhā kalpitasya ca (Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 5.9). Keśāgra, the tip of the hair. Agra means tip; keśa means hair. Just imagine—very small point. And you have to divide it into ten thousand parts. And that one part is the dimension of the living entity, spirit soul, spark. Everything is there in the śāstra. But because we have no eyes to see . . .

Our material eyes cannot see what is the dimension of the soul. But the soul is there within this body. And as soon as the soul departs, or takes another body according to the work the soul is doing here, there is superior superintendence. Karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa ([[Vanisource:SB 3.31.1|SB 3.31.1]]).

We are working here . . . just like in a office, somebody is working, and the service record is kept, "How this man is working." He does not know what is the opinion of the superior boss. But a service record is there in the office.
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