Guest guest Posted April 30, 1999 Report Share Posted April 30, 1999 Home Base: Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir, Navadwip Dhama, Nadia, WB, INDIA Camp: Narasimha Caturdasi (Appearance) Festival, ISKCON Sri Mayapur, India > Please accept my humble obeisances. > All glories to Srila Prabhupada! > > Hi. i was wondering about the measures of the soul, SP says that its about > the 10,000 part of the head of a hair so... > if the soul is spiritual how can be measured in material terms? > > please forgive my very bad english > > ys Bhakta Esteban Feldman > > efeldman (AT) hotmail (DOT) com > esteban.feldman (AT) com (DOT) bbt.se The Bhagavat Gita Purports quote Upanisads which describe the individual soul as "chit kanaa" or spiritual spark. For understanding how much area in the body the soul is taking in conditioned life the measurement is given as taking the tip of a hair and dividing that 100 times and then taking that 100th part and again dividing it 100 times. Like this the soul is so infinitesimal, yet so powerful. What is important to understand is that in spite of being so small by material calculations, the soul is so powerful that it can empower even the large body of an Elephant and the intelligence of some great human thinkers or Devas. Actually you are correct we cannot measure the soul by any material means, but if Lord Sri Krishna through His scriptures tells us the size then we can accept that as authoritative since the sastra is the SCIENCE OF THE SOUL and SCIENCE OF THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH. Yours in service, Jayapataka Swami Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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