Prabhupāda: So, not only the animal. The trees, the plants, the insects, the birds, the bees, the aquatic animal, fish—everyone has got soul. So anything which has got life symptom, it is due to soul, and so long the soul is there, the change of body takes place. A child born, if it is dead, the change of body does not take place. You cannot understand?
Lady (2): No.
Prabhupāda: You have got now a different body, but you had a body like a child. So you cannot understand this? How is that? Even a child can understand. You were also sometimes a body like this young girl. You do not believe that?
Lady (2): (French)
Yogeśvara: She says she can recollect.
Prabhupāda: No, but who recollects? The soul. The body is changed. The body is changed, but the soul is the same, and therefore she can recollect.
Lady (3): (French)
Yogeśvara: She says there is an example of the worm that turns into a butterfly. It changes body.
Prabhupāda: Yes, she is right.
Lady (2): (French)
Yogeśvara: (French) Do you have any questions?
Guest (3): (French)
Yogeśvara: He says there is an example that a flower grows, and when it dies it gives its perfume to God.
Prabhupāda: Yes, very good idea. Therefore, everyone can dedicate his energy to God. And that is called bhakti.
Guest (4): (French)
Yogeśvara: Is the sun to be considered a representation of God?
Prabhupāda: Yes, every . . . everyone is representation of God. Sun is more powerful representation. You are also representation of God. God is also a living being. That is said in the dictionary, Oxford Dictionary. God means, "supreme being." So we are all beings, and God is the Supreme Being. We are limited by our power; God is unlimited by His power.
Lady (3): (French)
Yogeśvara: When we say "Kṛṣṇa," are we speaking about God or an incarnation of God? How do we define it?
Prabhupāda: No, God Himself.
Lady (4): (French)
Yogeśvara: Then what is the meaning of the word ātmā?
Prabhupāda: Ātmā means also God. Ātmā means this body. Ātmā means this mind. Ātmā means the soul. And ātmā means also God. Ātmā means the active principle which is working. Just like in you the ātmā is there, therefore your body is moving. Similarly, the active principle of the whole cosmic manifestation is God.
Guest (2): (French)
Yogeśvara: What is the meaning of the different cakras?
Prabhupāda: Different?
Yogeśvara: Cakra, cakras.
Prabhupāda: Cakra?
Yogeśvara: Cakras.
Prabhupāda: That is yogic process. Those who are trying to find out the Supreme from the body, for them the different cakras mean the active principle, how He is working in different places. From the abdomen to the heart, then here, then here, then here, ṣaṭ-cakra, six cakras. That is yogī system.
Guest (1): (French)
Yogeśvara: Do we have a meaning . . . do we have a definition for the third eye?
Prabhupāda: Hmm?
Yogeśvara: The third eye.
Prabhupāda: Third eye. The future. Future.
Yogeśvara: Future?
Prabhupāda: Past, present and future.