Why can’t the soul be seen with microscopes – where is it located in organisms that have no heart?

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So is the soul one thousandth tip of a hair? Is it situated in the region of the heart? So what about plants which do not have a heart? There are two different things here. When it is said the soul is one ten thousandth the tip of a hair. Now there is, in this particular measure, there is both a combination of precision and imprecision.
Now one ten thousandth is a precise measure. But tip of a hair, how do you define a tip of a hair? Is it this much? Is it this much? So it’s imprecise. So the measure is indicative.
It is not discrete. The point is the soul is extremely small. And why can’t it be seen by a microscope? Because the soul is not material.
The microscopes, so the invisibility of the soul is not because of its size. It’s because of its nature. Non-material cannot be seen with matter.
Just as say the eyes cannot perceive sound. Or a black and white camera can’t perceive color. The apparatus is not suited for the observation.
So now as far as the heart is concerned, the soul is not situated in the heart. It’s situated in the region of the heart. And why in the region of the heart? According to Samkhya, which is a system of analysis of matter, which is something like Vedic physics you could say, there it’s described that there are five different kinds of airs which go in the body.
Prana, pana, jnana, samana, nudana. And the resultant, if you consider these five airs to be like vectors, these five vectors, the resultant of these is zero. It’s neutral at a particular point which usually falls in the region of the heart.
That is where the soul is situated. So now in different bodies, wherever that balance is there, that’s where the soul is situated. So it doesn’t have to be in the region of the heart.
If there is no such thing as a heart in a particular creature.