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Soul Exists Beyond Gross Material Senses, Knowledge Must Descend From Divine Authority

📅 February 2, 1977 📍 Bhubaneswar ⏱ 88 min
Soul, mind, and intelligence exist beyond gross senses; knowledge must descend from divine authority, not ascend from limited experiment.
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Svarūpa Dāmodara: They say the intelligence is a molecular interaction, in nervous system, in the brain. So...

Prabhupāda: The interaction, but not..., that is not the brain.

Svarūpa Dāmodara: They say the brain is...

Prabhupāda: Two, two physical elements, just like electricity contacting. The electricity as it is, it is not that wire, or the physical things. It is subtle.

Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes, it is subtle, but...

Prabhupāda: So what..., whether..., this subtle cannot be seen, but the thing is there.

Svarūpa Dāmodara: That is actually true. That is a fact. Say, for example, in the law of gravitation, that Newton’s laws of gravitation, though the mathematical formula can be established, but we do not know how it acts. It is...

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