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contained in the the body of an elephant or an ant equally well.
People who are unable to arrive at this conception due to either lack of true knowledge or inadequate expansion of vision, prejudice, or perversity, and people who are incapable to examine intelligently this theory or to grasp its conception and significance are apt to criticise the same vehemently. But it can become quite clear, if thought in an unbiased-rational way, that when images formed only through the medium of matter can be contained fully without any defect in a drop or particle as well as a big mirror without any difference in details why not the same Atman can be embodied in a microbe as well as the Mahamatsya ( the biggest whale )
If this thing can be possible, and it, most certainly, is possible, as seen in every day worldly existence, as in the case of lake or a drop of water, then it does not require further proof or explanation that the same Soul or Atman can be contained in a large body or in a body of microscopic proportions, in the same way.
