If you inject just one grain of deadly poison into someone, he immediately dies. No one can see the poison or how it acts. But the poison is acting nevertheless. In the same way, the Vedas say that because the minute particle called the soul is within the body, the whole body is working nicely. According to the Vedas, the measurement of the soul within the body is one ten-thousandth part of the tip of a hair. It is too small to see. Where is such seeing power?
If I pinch myself, I immediately feel it, because I am conscious all over my skin. But as soon as the soul is absent, which is the case when my body dies, you can take this same skin and cut it and chop it, and no one will protest. This is the way for detecting soul.
If I pinch myself, I immediately feel it, because I am conscious all over my skin. But as soon as the soul is absent, which is the case when my body dies, you can take this same skin and cut it and chop it, and no one will protest. This is the way for detecting soul.
Srila Prabhupada's Quote
The ordinary physician may cure the disease of the body,
but if you become advanced in Krishna Consciousness,
you will be able to cure the disease of the soul for many many persons.
And that is more important than a doctor or medical practitioner for curing the disease of this body.
However we may be expert for keeping this body fit, it is sure and certain that this will end.
But if you can protect the soul from being fallen a victim of this material existence that is a greater service.
-- Letter to: Toshana Krishna, Seattle, October 7, 1968
but if you become advanced in Krishna Consciousness,
you will be able to cure the disease of the soul for many many persons.
And that is more important than a doctor or medical practitioner for curing the disease of this body.
However we may be expert for keeping this body fit, it is sure and certain that this will end.
But if you can protect the soul from being fallen a victim of this material existence that is a greater service.
-- Letter to: Toshana Krishna, Seattle, October 7, 1968
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