Devotee: "The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision . . ."
Prabhupāda: Equal vision.
Jesuit: Equal vision.
Prabhupāda: Equal vision.
Jesuit: What does that mean, equal vision?
Prabhupāda: Equal vision means that I don't make any distinction between you and a dog.
Jesuit: You make no distinction . . .
Prabhupāda: No, this is spiritual vision, because a paṇḍita—paṇḍita means learned man—his equal vision means he does not make any difference between the souls. The dog has got also soul and the learned scholar has got also soul. But the soul is covered by the dog's body, and here the soul is covered by the learned scholar's body. Actually, both of them are souls, part and parcel of God.
Jesuit: Would you think that their souls are of different value, the soul of the dog . . .?
Prabhupāda: No, soul is of the same value.
Jesuit: That I would find hard to accept.
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Jesuit: 'Cause as I would understand it, the soul of the man, of any man, is what we would call a spiritual soul, an immortal soul. The soul of the animal is a principle of life, what the Greeks would call a psyche, Aristotle would call a psyche. But it is not of an immortal soul, therefore the man has higher value than the animal, the dog, something like that.
Prabhupāda: No. What do you think? Just like a child, as a child's father, the child has got different soul and the father has got different soul you mean to say?
Jesuit: They've got different souls, but they're both immortal, spiritual souls.