Letter to: Upendra
Columbus, Ohio 8 May, 1969 69-05-08
My Dear Upendra,
Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 4 May, 1969, and I have noted the contents with much encouragement.
Regarding your question about the difference between mind and soul, the mind is one of the senses, and the soul is the owner of the senses, including the mind. The mind is material, just like the material body, but when the material coverings are taken away, as we revive our spiritual body, similarly we revive our spiritual mind also. At the present moment, my material mind, intelligence and ego is carrying me in different types of bodies, because mind has different desires, and it carries the soul just like finer air carries the flavor of the flower or some other smell. So the mind is an instrument, and the soul is the worker of the instrument.
I hope this will meet you in good health and cheerful mood.
Your ever well-wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Link to this page: https://prabhupadabooks.com/letters/columbus/may/01/1969/upendra Previous: Letter to: Jayagovinda -- Columbus, Ohio 8 May, 1969 Next: Letter to: Krsna dasa -- Columbus, Ohio 8 May, 1969
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