Q. What is the soul of a young infant experiencing? And has it a conscious recollection of its experience in other planes?
A. This physical existence is so concrete, so radiant, its light is so dazzling, that it wipes from the soul of the child the recollection of its experience in the higher planes. It has been said by some intellectual philosophers that we are parts of God. This is not so. They have said this because they have seen the parts of God. This is not so. They have said this because they have seen the physical body. What can the intellect see? In the physical existence each individual is distinct and separate. But behind this physical existence all are one, the soul is one. If it were not so, we should not be able to understand one another, neither the face of another nor the voice, nor the language. We know how the friend is. If he is in Japan or in America and we are here, we know if he is ill, whether he is sad or happy. And not our friends only, but everything is known to the soul.