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So long the soul is there, the consciousness is there. The consciousness is not there means the soul is not there

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"so long the soul is there, the consciousness is there. The consciousness is not there means the soul is not there"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

No, no, consciousness . . . so long the soul is there, the consciousness is there. The consciousness is not there means the soul is not there.

Prabhupāda: Yasyātmā-buddhiḥ-kunape tri-dhātuke (SB 10.84.13). This body is just like a bag made of three dhātus: kaptha, pitta, vāyu. Actually it is so. They are thinking that this body is made of blood, muscle, bone and urine and stool. This is the constitution of the body. And these foolish people thinking that the living condition is coming from combination of these things.

Dr. Patel: Material.

Prabhupāda: Not only material. Such abominable things as stool, urine, blood, bone, muscle—all rejected things. And they are so foolish that they are accepting that combination of the stool, urine, blood and bones can create a body . . . a life. Body is already there. So if you are so big scientist, why don't you take this material and create a life?

Dr. Patel: That is what the Russians say.

Prabhupāda: Russians say that the . . .

Dr. Patel: That the consciousness comes after the combination of . . .

Prabhupāda: We are talking of this verse, that if this is the composition of the body, these things are available anywhere. Why don't you create life? Therefore he is no better than the dogs. He has no intelligence that "How this combination of blood, urine, stool and bone and muscle can create life?" They are thinking that a combination of matter can bring life force. That is the so-called scientists' theory. So these things are available in large quantity, so why don't you create a life? Therefore go-kharaḥ. Their intelligence is not better than the cows and the asses from the very beginning. If they are not cows and asses, how they can think of that combination of these material things can bring in life? When a man dies, find out if there is scarcity of stool or scarcity of urine or scarcity of blood. Bring it and inject it. These rascals, they cannot do it, and still they are calculating urine examination, blood examination and this examination.

Dr. Patel: Idiot. (laughter)

Prabhupāda: No, I am not saying. It is śāstra. (laughter) Take this dead man's body, and whatever urine and stool is there, examine, and then inject, and come him, let him back, come to life. Then I will understand that your examination of the stool, urine is perfect. This is common question. So long the soul was there, you are very expert to examine stool, urine and this and that. But when the soul is gone . . . now the stool is there, urine is there. Why don't you examine and give life? This is our challenge.

Dr. Patel: They say that the life, the consciousness . . . according to our religion, consciousness, the whole thing is conscious, as a matter of fact. The cosmos is . . .

Prabhupāda: Consciousness means soul, soul.

Dr. Patel: Consciousness is the higher śakti of God, I mean, apara tu anya . . .

Prabhupāda: No, no, consciousness . . . so long the soul is there, the consciousness is there. The consciousness is not there means the soul is not there.

Indian (2): But prabhu, one thing the doctor has got in power, you see, that is this, that suppose he gives a poisonous injection, that is immediately affected, and why the soul is out of it if . . .?

Prabhupāda: No, no, all injection will be effective so long the soul is there.

Dr. Patel: Yes. Give it to the dead bodies, he says.

Prabhupāda: That is my point, that if . . . (aside) Hare Kṛṣṇa. If this analysis of the blood, urine and other things can help us, so you can analyze the dead bodies—stool, urine, blood, something is there—and give some injection and let him come to life.

Page Title:So long the soul is there, the consciousness is there. The consciousness is not there means the soul is not there
Compiler:SharmisthaK
Created:2022-12-09, 08:31:11
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1