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<div class="heading">Because you have no spiritual vision, therefore you have to be understood by material example.
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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: 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>
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