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<div class="heading">But the same time, gradually one clock goes slow and the other clock goes fast. This analogy is not perfect. Similar point. Analogy means there must be a majority of similar points. Similar point is lacking because the one clock is moving, you'll start the other one moving, and one may go slow or one may go at higher speed.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz|Philosophy Discussion on Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Śyāmasundara: He likens the soul and the body to two synchronized clocks, both going at the same speed but separate.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. The soul is separate from the body, but the body is going or the body is being manifested on account of the soul's desire. Just like a young child desires how he will become a youth. He sees the youthful energy, gradually he develops or changes his body to a youthful body.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Then is the body really affecting the soul? Does the body really have a causal influence on the soul?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. The soul is unaffected by the body, but the body is helping the soul to fulfill its desires. Just as I am taking the help of this microphone to serve my purpose, but microphone is not influencing me. It is not that microphone is willing that I shall dictate. It is not like that.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: His idea is that the body has a monad and the soul has a monad. They are two different monads.</p>
<p> Prabhupāda: The body is a combination at atoms. If Kṛṣṇa is within the atoms, the monads of the atoms and the monad in the body are different.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: So that although the monad of the body is acting...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What is the meaning of monad?</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: The only meaning I know is that it means unity or oneness. A small particle of unity or oneness.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is Supersoul. Supersoul, although it appears many, innumerable, it is one. Ekatvam anupaśyataḥ (Iso 7). That is Īśopaniṣad. Although we find there are many Supersouls, but there is one. Yo māṁ paśyati sarvatra, in the Bhagavad-gītā, "One who sees in Me everything, and sees everything in Me, he is really seeing." That is oneness. That means they have no clear idea, but trying to theorize something. Clear idea is in the Vedic literature.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: He says that God creates the principle of pre-established harmony. Just like He sets two clocks in motion, both synchronized. One is the body and one is the soul. Even though they are going together...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: The body is separate, body separate from the soul. We say that.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Just like the body is acting, but the soul is independent. It's not really affected by the body.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. That's all right. We agree.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: So they are like two clocks going at the same synchronization, but not together. They are separate.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But why two clocks? What is the relationship between the body and the soul? You cannot analyze separately. The body and the soul, they are practically combined. That example is not complete. They are two individual clocks. They are not combined. So therefore there is fallacy of analogy. If there is no common point, you cannot have analogy.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: The common point is that they say the same time. They have the same time.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But the same time, gradually one clock goes slow and the other clock goes fast. This analogy is not perfect. Similar point. Analogy means there must be a majority of similar points. Similar point is lacking because the one clock is moving, you'll start the other one moving, and one may go slow or one may go at higher speed.</p>
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