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Prabhupada gave an analogy

Jadurani : In 1966 or '67, Prabhupada began his Prahlad Maharaj series. Prabhupada explained how Prahlad would speak to his classmates when his teachers were out, and Prabhupada gave an analogy. He said that in an airplane there's a driver and a motor. Without the motor the plane doesn't run, and with the motor but without the driver, the plane also doesn't run. Similarly, even if you have all of the mechanical bodily arrangements, without the soul in the body, the body doesn't work. Prabhupada said, "Even though the body is so big and complicated if you take a small drop of poison, life is finished. In the same way, if the tiny soul, one ten-thousandth the size of the tip of the hair, is in the body, it brings the whole body to life."



Reference: Memories Anecdotes of a Modern Day Saint - Volume 1 by Siddhanta Dasa