When we are 100% spiritual we see everything as spiritual. Then what is the difference between material and spiritual?

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when we are 100% spiritual we see the material world also as spiritual so what is the difference between material and spiritual see there is essentially the words material and spiritual are used in two ways one is in terms of composition and the other is in terms of application so in terms of composition means that there is the material world which is made of matter and matter is as contrasted to spirit which is satchitananda matter is asat, achit, nirananda matter is temporary, matter is lacking in consciousness, matter is not joyful whereas spirit is so it is important for us at least in the initial stages of our spiritual life to differentiate between matter and spirit that this is material, this is spiritual if I see a good looking form I do understand that the beauty of this form will not be there if the soul goes out of it so actually it’s just an illusion which is created because of the presence of the soul which is the source of the beauty in it so we in the initial stage differentiate between matter and spirit and this differentiation is based on composition and this composition never changes even when I become spiritually advanced it is not that matter will become satchitananda for me matter will also be asat, achit, nirananda only but so now we will look at the material spiritual difference from another perspective that is from the point of view of application application means that if anything can be used in the service of Krishna then it can be called spiritual so it can be called as spiritual because it is being used for a spiritual purpose of serving Krishna so from that perspective we will be able to see everything in the world as potentially spiritual as potentially meant for the service of Krishna so that is the reason that we acquire so Srila Prabhupada when he went to America and one day he was chanting Hare Krishna on the terrace of the temple on the first floor and he looked out from the balcony and he saw there was a flatbed truck going over there and he saw the flatbed truck and he got an idea you know we can put Jagannath Baldev Subhadra on the truck and we can have Jagannath Radhyatra now how many of us will see a flatbed truck as a potential avenue for Jagannath Radhyatra so that is the meaning of spiritual vision so Prabhupada still saw the truck he saw the truck it was not that suddenly the truck got transformed into something else he saw the truck but along with the truck he saw something else that this also has the potential for serving Krishna so that means that is from the perspective of application so now we cannot think of application of everything material in the service of Krishna in the early stages of our spiritual life because we are so much having mentally enjoying mentality that we will not be able to attract we will ourselves get attracted to those material things so that is why initially we differentiate this is matter this is spirit I should stay away from matter and I should engage myself in spirit and then gradually as we become more and more purified then we will see within everything material the potential to be engaged in Krishna’s service and we will engage then in Krishna’s service and then in that sense it will be spiritual for us but that doesn’t mean that it is not material so when we say material things become spiritualized that means it is not that their composition changes but we will see within material things the potentiality to be engaged in devotional service and in that sense they become spiritual for us does that answer the question