Car Conversation After Meeting Cardinal Danielou Paris

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Car Conversation After meeting with Cardinal Danielou — August 9, 1973, Paris 730809CR-PARIS [11:25 Minutes] Conv_730809CR-PARIS Prabhupāda: Eh? Yogeśvara: Excuse me?

Prabhupāda: That the animal-eater is going to become a tiger to get more facility. Yogeśvara: [laughs] He liked the example.

Prabhupāda: Well, that is fact. Yaṁ yaṁ vāpi smaran bhāvaṁ tyajaty ante... [Bg. 8.6]. Animal-eaters, they'll become tiger, fox, cats, dogs.

This is, they'll become. What are these different species of life? Yogeśvara: They do not... They do not accept that the soul exists...

Prabhupāda: And that is their foolishness. That is their foolishness. Why does not exist? What is the proof of existence of the soul in the body?

What is the proof? First of all, you have to understand that. Suppose I am a human being, so... Yogeśvara: [to driver] You know where to go?

Prabhupāda: I am a human being. You accept that I have got soul. By what symptoms you accept that I have got soul? First of all you have to ascertain that.

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