What is the reference point for saying that the soul is small?

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when we say the soul is small what is the reference point for comparing it to say that it is small see the soul is non-material but that does not mean it is non-literal non-literal means that it doesn’t literally exist it’s just a metaphorical way of referring to something the soul is metaphysical it is not metaphorical metaphysical means it exists at a reality higher than physical metaphorical means it’s just a symbolic representation of something no it’s not like that the soul is real and in the real ontological sense the soul has variations so as compared to the body that it animates the soul is very small so one of the verses in the 2.28 in the Bhagavad Gita says that it’s amazing it’s amazing that a giant elephant or a huge blue whale such a huge body it’s all animated by a tiny soul so the soul when we say it’s tiny it is compared to the size of the body which it occupies and often the souls will be extremely small in size and need to have the energy to animate that body itself so the soul has its own life and its own literal existence and in the human size it is very small as compared to the body