Room Conversation Excerpt
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Bombay, March 18, 1971

Prabhupada: Whenever there is sun, there is sunlight, immediately. Where there is light, immediately there is illumination. Just like a drop of poison. You just take a drop of poison as soon as it touches the tongue immediately it expands all over the whole body and it make the whole blood, water, dead. How it expands, a small grain of potassium cyanide? Simply a grain immediately (indistinct). If a material thing can have so much effect, immediately, the spiritual atom cannot do that? That is called science. Similarly, the biggest spiritual identity, Krsna, He can become all-pervading. We are particle spiritual, spark. We have got limited power. (indistinct) Yena sarvam idam tatam, “I become immediately expanded throughout My body.” And He is unlimitedly big. So how much His consciousness is distributed all over the world? Sarva-jna. Therefore Krsna is not abhijna. Svarat. Janmady asya yato ’nvayad itaratas carthesv abhijnah svarat [Bhag. 1.1.1]. This example is nice. A grain of potassium cyanide is sufficient. There is no taste. The chemical characteristic of potassium cyanide, they have not mentioned the taste because as soon as there is taste, finished, they cannot… (laughter) He cannot say whether it is pungent or sweet. (laughter) Finished. So there is no taste. (end)