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<div class="heading">So far as we get information, our knowledge is from the Vedic information, aṇḍāntara-stha paramāṇu: Kṛṣṇa is within, the Paramātmā. It does not say the soul is within, the Paramātmā.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz|Philosophy Discussion on Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Śyāmasundara: What I'm trying to get at is that if we desire something and we take a body because of that desire, can a hydrogen molecule desire to become part of water and be given that body? Does it have the independence to desire something and take a body accordingly? The hydrogen molecule, does it have a life?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So far as we get information, our knowledge is from the Vedic information, aṇḍāntara-stha paramāṇu: Kṛṣṇa is within, the Paramātmā. It does not say the soul is within, the Paramātmā.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: It doesn't say that an individual soul is present within the atom?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. Kṛṣṇa is present.</p>
<p> Śyāmasundara: So then this philosophy of Leibnitz is not correct.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Because he says in matter there is also this kind of individuality.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That individual is Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa knows that so many atoms will be combined, then another thing will be formed. It is not the individual soul but Kṛṣṇa directly.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: But when you come to the living entities, then the individual soul is also there.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Within the body. Both of them—Kṛṣṇa is also there, and the individual soul is also there.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: He says that the definition of substance is a being capable of action. Substance means to be capable of action, and that existence means action.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Substance is original. Other things are categories.</p>
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