Mind Occupies Space

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Taken from Dialectic Spiritualism.

 

Syamasundara dasa: The mind also occupies space and works in time.

Srila Prabhupada: Yes, we are occupying space, and since the mind is within us, the mind also occupies space. From practical experience we can understand that the mind can immediately travel thousands of miles with no difficulties.

Syamasundara dasa: But is that distance within me, or does my mind actually travel there?

Srila Prabhupada: It travels. It actually occupies space. Unless it occupies space, how could it travel? It travels so fast that you can't exactly remember how it is going, but as soon as it reaches its destination, you can apprehend it. In any case, it occupies space.

Syamasundara dasa: The mind can leave the body and go somewhere?

Srila Prabhupada: Not leave. It is just like a shoot: it extends. At night, when we are dreaming, the subtle body also extends and comes back again. In fact, we may take the subtle bodies in dreams to be very important at the time.

 

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This is a q. as profound as that of time. Standing at a position outside this time-space realm, you'll conclude that time & space are all illusions in your brain & soul. Then why can all persons interact in the same dream - mortal world? Thanks to God, we have the ability to play a common game. In various games - dream, death, hell, earth, heaven, & etc., we please or afflict ourselves at varied speed with respective freewills & karmans. If you want to change the game, you need tune your frequency to shift into another one in a flash. There is too much knowledge for this q., such as in enoch keys. So teleportation is possible with the similar principle as television or telephone.