Liberation from Ignorance and Suffering
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they say, “The body is everything, and there is nothing more.” Actually, however, that is not a fact.
The fact is that the spirit soul is very, very small.  Bālāgra-śata-bhāgasya śatadhā kalpitasya ca  ( Śvetāśvatara Up. 5.9 ). The soul is one ten-thousandth the size of the tip of a hair. Suppose we were to take a hair and divide it into a hundred parts. Could we do it? No. That is not possible. But if we could do it and then divide it again into another one hundred parts, each part would be the size of the spirit soul.
Of course, this is not possible to understand by experimental knowledge, so how can it be learned? One must learn of this from an authority. Our knowledge is so imperfect that it cannot deal with such subtle affairs, and because rascals cannot deal with such things, they think that matter is the cause of life. Nonetheless, they have not been able to demonstrate that life comes from matter. Let them take chemicals in their laboratory and produce even a small insect with hands, legs, and eyes. Every night we see many of such small insects with legs and eyes with which they approach the light. From such small insects up to Brahmā there are 8,400,000 different forms of life, among which we are traveling from body to body, leaving one body and entering another, as stated by Kṛṣṇa in  Bhagavad-gītā  ( tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ ). Therefore, either we must reject Kṛṣṇa’s word or reject all the so-called scientific theories that life comes from matter. But we are pledged to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and therefore we cannot reject Kṛṣṇa’s word. We accept Kṛṣṇa when He says that we have to travel from one body to another.
Every living entity within this material world is under the influence of  avidyā , ignorance.  Avidyā-karma-saṁjñānyā tṛtīyā śaktir iṣyate . God, Kṛṣṇa, has many millions of potencies ( parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate ), and they have been summarized into three categories—the external potency, the internal potency, and the marginal potency. The marginal potency and the internal potency are of the same spiritual quality, but the third potency, the external potency, is inferior.
viṣṇu-śaktir parā proktā kṣetrajñākhyā tathā parā avidyā-karma-saṁjñānyā tṛtīyā śaktir iṣyate  ( Viṣṇu Purāṇa 6.7.61 )
In this material world, everyone is in ignorance ( avidyā ). Even Brahmā was ignorant until he was given knowledge by Kṛṣṇa. Therefore no one