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<div class="heading">Yes. Yes. Same quantity. The same measurement: one ten-thousandth part of the tip of the hair. Yes. Yes. That much, that spiritual energy is everywhere, in the ant or in the elephant.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Henri Bergson|Philosophy Discussion on Henri Bergson]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Śyāmasundara: So we can predict that everyone will...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Everyone will be. Somebody sooner, somebody later.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: So that the purpose of the life force then is to eventually go back...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Just like when a man becomes a prisoner, he will be freed, he'll be a free man at the end of his term, and within this term he is simply kicked by the police, so that he may not come back again to prison house.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: But we can't predict that the process of punishment will have permanent effect, can we? Can we predict that? Many prisoners leave the prison, but some come back.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, there is no permanent effect because we have got little independence. There is nothing as permanent. You can misuse your independence at any time.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: And come back.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Otherwise there is no meaning of independence. Independence means you can do this, you can do that. "All right. Whatever you like."</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: His conception of the soul, which he calls elan vital in French language, means the vital impulse.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Vital..., this is living force, vital force. (indistinct), it is never addressed. God has (indistinct) for the mind, for the intelligence, for the body, God has (indistinct).</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Is it (indistinct) in the same quantity in every body, in every living body?</p>
<p> Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. Same quantity. The same measurement: one ten-thousandth part of the tip of the hair.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: I mean the energy, the amount of energy.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. That much, that spiritual energy is everywhere, in the ant or in the elephant.</p>
<p>Atreya Ṛṣi: Prabhupāda, you mentioned the size of the soul, and this size seems to connote a physical size. Now, my question is: in the spiritual world, size, it seems that it is a material concept, it is a relative thing, distance...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Material size and spiritual size is not the same. Spiritual size is permanent; material size is changing.</p>
<p>Atreya Ṛṣi: In other words, how could you measure the spiritual phenomenon with something like one-thousandth of the tip of the hair? Hair is material.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. Because you have no spiritual vision, therefore you have to be understood by material example.</p>
<p>Atreya Ṛṣi: That's an example.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Atreya Ṛṣi: And also Śyāmasundara Prabhu was asking about predicting about spiritual life. What is the qualification of the person who can make such predictions?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He must be Kṛṣṇa's representative, one who knows Kṛṣṇa. That's all.</p>
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