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Syamasundara, Philosophy Discussions on Bertrand Russell: […]: But isn’t the understanding of the white light composed of seven other colors, isn’t that also a fact of direct sense perception?
Prabhupada: That is sabda. So a man sees this white snowball, he sees snow. He may not see the reflection of the sun, seven colors, but when he goes to a teacher, he can hear that there is seven colors. Therefore sabda-pramana. The word, the sound, then he can be perfect.
Dr. Rao: Vedic truth?
Prabhupada: Anything we receive knowledge directly by our sense perception, that is imperfect knowledge.
Syamasundara: Because even if we see the seven colors in the laboratory with instruments, we still don’t understand the even simpler facts of which that is composed. There may be seven colors, but how to understand those?
Prabhupada: Yes. Therefore material knowledge is always imperfect. That is the conclusion.
Syamasundara: He says that the mind plays no part in the process of evolution, because the only evidence for the existence of mental phenomena is a fragment of space and time. But this is not a substance; it is simply a set of relations.
Prabhupada: He does not know it is also matter, but very subtle matter. It is matter. Just like ether—you cannot touch, you cannot see, but still it is matter. And mind is subtler than the ether. But it is matter. Intelligence is subtler than the mind, but still it is matter. So from Vedic authorities we understand that earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence, they are all material.
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