Category:Questions On... Body (Gross), Material Senses
Pages in category "Questions On... Body (Gross), Material Senses"
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- A devotee, how can he control his tongue?
- According to karma (varieties of the body, according to the mentality)?
- After you realize that you're not the body, then what comes next?
- All the species, their forms, their gross forms... Yes, whether that has come all of a sudden. Or is it by gradual evolution from...?
- Am I conscious of... My body's being constantly changing?
- And ah, this inside, it grows because of Krsna does it (anything you take, it grows from the Supreme)?
- Are there individuals in these bodies?
- Are there many living entities within the body?
- Are these living entities (within my body) constant? They don't change any?
- Are we duty-bound to maintain our body?
- As the yugas progress, the human body itself, doesn't it become more degraded?
- At the time of death, when the soul leaves the body, at that time the body is destroyed. So at the time of sleeping, when the soul leaves the body, how is the body maintained?
- At the time of sleeping, when the soul leaves the body, why is the body not destroyed at that time?
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- Because they do not understand the difference between the soul and the body, that's why they don't understand what you are contributing… Do you think that...?
- Before the body, the soul is still there?
- Bhagavad-gita says that the conditioned soul is subjected to four defects. Does that refer to the body or the soul?
- Body is finished and atma is emerged. So, what, why the atma suffers next generation for the deeds done by the body in this life?
- But how does someone prove that something exists beyond his..., beyond our senses?
- But how does that give us sense content (this is sense content, that sarvam khalv, "Everything is Brahman")? What does that mean to my sense observations?
- But how would the soul develop a particular body...?
- But not in the material..., not in the material body (have you ever seen Krsna?)?
- But people in general you say are walking on the dead platform in live bodies (this living condition is one platform and when I or you, we are dead, that is another platform. So generally people are working on the bodily concept of platform)?
- But the body is important to the self isn't it?
- But the bones of those people that they've found, where are their bodies now? Have they gone to some other...?
- But then why do you fear this death of the physical body (the material body is the cause of pains and pleasure. So if you don't get the material body, if you remain in your spiritual body, that is real enjoyment)?
- But there are some very intelligent men who are not spiritually enlightened, perhaps even men who understand that they are not, or the body is not all, the body is dead and there is something else. Why aren't these men spiritually aware?
- But what is the use of having big strong body if now they're using airplanes and tanks and guns?
- But when the body is finally finished, aren't the senses also finished?
- But who was responsible for bringing this body into existence? ... The owner?
- By struggling to overcome our senses, we can please you and obtain your mercy?
C
- Can a man become, after his body dies, I mean, say, an animal or an insect of some sort?
- Can a self exist without a body?
- Can one perceive by their own senses what is that (the mercy of Lord Caitanya)...?
- Can the scientists control that, the type of genes, the kinds of body, the child will get?
- Consciousness is also subject to body's changes, change of body?
- Could we say that anyone who is engaged in glorifying the body is actually engaged in idol worship?
- Could you discuss the various levels on the way to bliss consciousness? What happens to the body and the mind as one approaches bliss consciousness?
- Could you explain further, purification of the senses? You said that you had to purify your senses before you can see God
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- Dehino 'smin yatha dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara. Could it be said, then, that we are transmigrating even while in this life?
- Do you believe in a life after death for the body?
- Do you think that I am inferior to you (by physiological condition (women are inferior to men). Just like you are. Your bodily features are different from the man's features. You cannot deny it)?
- Do you use your body when you speak?
- Does any physical change take place in your body when you become Krsna conscious?
- Does one experience the miseries of the gross body when one's in sattva-guna, in the mode of goodness? Does one experience hunger and thirst, those things like that?
- Does that involve a majority of the people, or... (so those who are working on the bodily platform, they are working on the dead platform)?
- Does that mean that he (one who is in the mode of goodness) is not... He's experiencing the subtle body inside of the gross body, or what does that mean exactly?
- Does that mean that the more one gets control over his senses, he becomes more lazy intelligent?
- Does the self exist without the body in this world?… In this life?… As a spirit apart from the body
- Does the soul which passes from body to body, does it or he experience the pains and pleasures of my body?
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- He (the yogi) doesn't see the Supersoul with the gross senses, does he?
- He argues that Krsna knows everything, so Krsna knew that he would have trouble controlling his senses; therefore why did Krsna give him senses?
- He can perceive that he has changed from child to old man, but he can't perceive what is going to happen after death. So who knows?
- He is saying that you have said that we have a material body and also a spiritual body. So he wants to know if the spirit and matter are born simultaneously or if the matter is born, the material body is born, and later the spirit comes
- He wants to know exactly what is the form of the body. If spirit soul is nonmaterial, what is the form?
- He wants to know if the senses, the material senses we now have, originally belong to the soul which has been covered by the material body
- He wants to know what are the characteristics of a person who has realized that he is not this body
- He's asking how can we prove our point (that body and soul are two things)?
- Her soul is still alive, and she is still functioning spiritually, even though her brain is dead. Is that what...?
- How can I get with my imperfect senses the perfection brought by the master?
- How can you tell when your senses are getting purified?
- How do I create matter that is my body?
- How does one learn to control the senses, overwhelming?
- How does one sharpen one's senses?
- How does the jiva get out of the atom and take a gross body?
- How is it that the soul wants different things and then the material body acts according to the desires of the soul?... What is the connection that spirit causes matter to do so many things?... How is that contact there?
- How is it that when our coat, size of the coat, changes because the body grows bigger the size of the coat is bigger?
- How is it they can see continuity between baby's body and young boy's body and young man's body, they say, "Oh, he's still here," but they can see no continuity between this body and...?
- How is the soul degraded (by lust, anger and greed) when it is transcendental to the body? Doesn't that imply that the soul has changed?
- How is the spirit held in the system till it finds a new body?
- How or why did this spiritual body become covered by the material body?
- How the body goes away?
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- I know that our bodies are not eternal, and we have to leave them, and some are made male bodies and some are made female bodies. But our spirits, our souls, are there any difference?
- I mean you say that people identify themselves, the body as the self... And that this is ignorance to identify the self with the body… But does that mean a sort of rejection of the body as unimportant?
- I was thinking that Narada has actually an all-spiritual body, and Brahma has a material form, material body. And yet Narada appears to Brahmaji to ask questions from him as spiritual master. How is that?
- I'm not sure that I understand the process by which one might be thinking of something in his mind, and how that soul is put into a body similar to what that thought is. In other words, how can the soul be subject to what the mind is thinking of?
- I, being a servant of the senses, how to run away from the senses?
- If a person's senses are restrained by following regulative principles, but if his mind dwells in sense objects, is he becoming purified, or is he just a pretender?
- If life is based on the desires of the living entities, and as you were mentioning that the material energy forms so many complex combinations, the material body is so complex, does that mean that the living entity is very much entangled?
- If one has fallen so far that he has taken the body of a fly or a mosquito, can he still return to Krsna?
- If our senses are imperfect, then with what sense do we perceive the Divine that underlies these laws of nature?
- If some scientist can change the genes so that the jiva can have a different kind of body, he still would have the previous desires?
- If somebody no longer identifies with the body, what is his perception of a painful condition?
- If the soul is the active force, then at what stage are the activities of the soul realized as distinct from the activities of the body?
- If this body is pure soul, then why it gets engaged with worldly matter?
- If we accept that the senses, the body and the mind are not perfect, they're limited, then with what means are we to perceive God?
- If we are so small, why is there a poison of the senses?
- If you accept that there is an evolution, do you accept that the bodies change because of changing conditions of the natural surroundings?
- If you make a scientific proposition that "Because I am, the body moves," that is your scientific proposition?
- In deep sleep it does not work, no (death means that this body stops working. But the subtle mind... Exactly in the same way. Just as while you are sleeping this gross body has stopped to work, but the subtle body is working)?
- In order for a body to perceive itself, it needs a mirror. But how does one body perceive its soul?
- In the beginning stage of devotional service when we are trying to make advancement, we have to tolerate the urges of the senses... Is there a stage after a person becomes completely purified...?
- In the Krsna teachings, the person is not the body but the soul, which is like many religions. Also, some animals, animals also, are not the body but the soul. This is true? Like the cow and the dog and the cat?
- In the Moon planet, are there bodies like of a more subtle nature so that if they did go there, they wouldn't be able to see them? We could see them with our eyes?
- In the Srimad-Bhagavatam you mentioned that the trees, they also can see, (in a) purport. So I was wondering, do all the various species of life, are they fully equipped in some fashion or another with all the various senses?
- In this brain weight matter, the sixty-four ounce and thirty-six ounce, is that every brain, male brain, is...?
- In what form (when this body will be changed, you'll exist in another body)?
- Is (past and future) concerned with this body. It is concerned, exactly, with this body and with this ego, with regard to which there is a before and an after, up and down. And if you take away this ego, what's there, what's left?
- Is it actually Krsna who's maintaining the life in the body then? The life of the body is maintained by Krsna or by the individual jiva?
- Is it better to have a human body as a machine to use than a cat's body?
- Is it possible to escape the conditions of being in the body?
- Is it possible to train the body through the use of yoga to decrease the sleep period down to about three hours or two hours?
- Is it sometimes possible that a person is reborn in the same body?
- Is it true that there were big dinosaur bodies?
- Is it true that when you become more purified that you will see everything differently with your eyes and hear everything differently with your ears and all this?
- Is that the heart of the soul or the heart of the gross material body (you are our student. You are saying there is no heart (some of the insects don't even have hearts). That means you do not carefully read)?
- Is the (living force) in the same quantity in every body, in every living body? I mean the energy, the amount of energy
- Is the body not to be treated with a certain amount of care, and even comfort, because it is the vehicle for our spiritual progress and so on?
- Is the body really affecting the soul? Does the body really have a causal influence on the soul?
- Is the body, then, to be resisted? Is the body to be disciplined, to be resisted, to be ignored? Is that what you're suggesting?... How to treat the body?
- Is the living entity in the area of the heart, in the heart, or in the lotus of the heart?
- Is the seeing important?
- Is the soul dependent upon the body for its existence?
- Is the water inside (my body) the same as the water in the ocean?
- Is this (the eyes are to be treated how to see) true also with your other senses?
- Isn't everything we see a product of experience? Don't all living things have experience?
- It is a question of eyes and knowing, sir? So, sir, how do we prepare eyes to see (Krsna)?
- It's very easy to convince some people that they're not their bodies, but it's not very easy to convince them that they're not their minds. Is there some way we can...?
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- Just like at the time of disintegration of this body, the living entity leaves this body and the body disintegrates, so does the atomic body also disintegrate when the living entity leaves it and moves to a higher body?
- Just like if it suddenly got cold, the spirit soul would desire to be warm so he would evolve a body with hair?
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- Once they (the cows) expire, how do you propose to expose of the body?
- One last statement from Aristotle. He states, in his Politics, he says, "The beauty of the body is seen, whereas the beauty of the soul is not seen." Is this true?
- Original form... Which is the form of the body (he (the soul) has got his original form)?
- Our desire to enjoy, we achieve these bodies; and our desire to achieve Krsna brings us to our natural position?
P
- Prabhupada has told us that even in the spiritual world there is desire to have the senses enjoy. Isn't that so?
- Prabhupada, did you say that trees have the ability to see and hear in the Bhagavatam?
- Practically one experiences that the heat in the body, the lusty desires increases heat within the body. So is there any correlation between fire within the body and the mode of passion?
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- So one condition you say is that as soon as the body dies, then there is no more movement. But what is there to prove that the soul has left the body or that there was ever a soul in the body?
- So the pain is experienced by the consciousness that is spread all over the body?
- So then what is basic difference between human body, I mean man's body and woman's body, which attracts each other?
- So this body is temporary anyway, so aren't these senses temporary also?
- So we say that the soul is in the heart. So how can we convince the other doctors, for example, of the presence of the soul within the body and especially within the heart?
- So when this body is finished, why shall the soul be gone?
- So your question is whether one can enter this kingdom of God with this body?
- Some people would say, "If everything is a creation of God, then why do you have such a..., why do you present this body as such a horrible thing?"
- Spiritual form is there but due to the bond man has taken this form?
- Srila Prabhupada, does the soul, the ghost, enter into the other man's body? The soul is occupying one body, and the ghost, as another soul, does he enter that body? There's two souls in the one body?
- Srila Prabhupada, is it also not possible, say, at the time of creation, now those material bodies are going to be created, also possible not to manifest all of them but some are not still manifested?
- Srila Prabhupada, the pure devotee's spirit soul is not trapped by the gross and subtle bodies?
- Srila Prabhupada, you said that our body was made by (indistinct). Why should we (indistinct)? But why should we come back?
- Srila Prabhupada, you were saying that because the body has arms and legs, then the coat has a similar shape. Then does the spirit soul that's within our body have arms and legs like that?
- Srila Prabhupada? If they are really going there in the moon planet, then the bodies of the living entities are different than our bodies because the...?
- Swami? You say that Krsna consciousness is a system of purifying the senses. Does that mean that the senses become unlimited? Do the senses become unlimited when they're finally purified?
- Swamiji, if Isa is everywhere, isavasyam idam sarvam, then surely He is in the body also?
- Swamiji, the other night you said that one who uses his body for the purpose of Krsna, then his body becomes spiritual. How then is the body still subject to change?
- Swamiji, they read a lot that Bhagavata says that our body is a temple for the soul, and the soul is a temple for the spirit. Would you kindly enlighten us on this point?
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- The body is matter, but still it is conscious as long as I am alive. So that means the life is consciousness?
- The body is not part of God?
- The body is the dress of the soul; so when the body falls off and dies, where does the soul go?
- The body, or my form, it's pertaining to my consciousness, the development of my consciousness?
- The good man gets a better body or a good body?
- The life symptoms are maintained in the body still (when the seer has left the gross body)?
- The living entities, when the soul is inside a body, they're much more flexible than the, the aeroplanes or cars that are made by the scientists?
- The modern scientific research means to increase the demands of the body, the bodily demands?
- The next question: the body of a pure devotee is all spiritual and He is not different from His body...
- The old machine continues to change after the spirit soul leaves, it deteriorates?
- The owner of the body, is He responsible for this body also?
- The pain is experienced by the consciousness that is spread all over the body?
- The same body, different stage in life...?
- The soul is all-pervading, throughout the body?
- The spirit is manufactured in the body, is it not, sir?
- The vision of the eyes is imperfect. We have to see by intelligence, from the authority... Then one may ask, "Well, how do I recognize that this is the bona fide authority?"
- Their (scientists') theory may be right about how the body forms, but they're missing the soul?
- Then again he will not get material body?
- Then there is some distinction, between the nature of the soul and the nature of the body?
- There are internal senses also... There are counterparts of senses also?
- There is no more body? No more body?
- There is something constant within the body though it changes. What is it? How come this is, changes body but still we can recognize someone from his youth to his old age
- There must be different kinds of taking of a body, because there are different kinds of bodies. The bodies of dogs and deers and things are not the same as the body of Krsna. Now, how do you take on this form of Krsna?
- There's harmony at the beginning and harmony at the end (the child's body is harmonically changing into boy's body, harmonical changes, there is harmony)?
- There's no value in keeping the body fit through exercise?
- These forms that are here, are they actually eternal forms?
- They will not listen logically (no body is finished. My childhood body is finished, but the soul is not finished) What can you do?
- They wonder how is it possible that if there is soul, that there could be two souls within one body?
- This body that we inherited, the bodies that we're in now, are the results of the behavior of our souls when we were in our previous... And then can we sort of, by looking at ourselves, can we get the sort of person we were when we were here before?
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- We can accept that the soul is not burned, but what about the body?
- Well does that mean that the world, the general world's activities are like a non-moving car? A lump of matter (car is important so long it is moving and if it is not moving it has no importance, it is lump of matter)?
- Western people want to think they're the body. Otherwise how can they enjoy all their technology?
- What about all the sufferings of the body? Let's say one has a toothache or something like that
- What about tamo-guna? Does tamo-guna have a relationship with the body?
- What about the body of a man? Is that punishment or gift?
- What about when somebody is born with three arms or eight toes?
- What am I? Is the body itself matter, or spiritual soul, or a combination of both?
- What are the senses, how to control the things to be done?
- What distinguishes the soul from the body? Because here we're mentioning everything that is the field of activity, but then what is the soul?
- What do you know about the soul leaving the body? Maybe when the body leaves the soul, the soul also dies. I think it is same thing.
- What does that mean, then, when the yogis withdraw their senses from the objects like it says like the tortoise withdraws his limbs within the shell? What does that refer to then?
- What does the yogi perceive when he cuts off the outer senses? What does he experience when he cuts off the outer senses?
- What is basic difference between human body, I mean man's body and woman's body, which attracts each other?
- What is the difference of changing our body during our lifetime and at death?
- What is the purpose of there being a body?
- What is the Vedic explanation of the working principle of the brain, how our brain is working?
- What sort of body we have been in in the past?
- What would be the mechanism or process to get this perfect knowledge and to purify our senses?
- When a heart is transplanted does the soul stay in the heart?
- When one is aware of that fact, that he is not the body?
- When someone is sleeping and dreaming, has the seer left the gross body?
- When the body changes, Srila Prabhupada, does that mean that also that the real form changes?
- When the body changes, Srila Prabhupada, how is it...? When our coat, size of the coat changes because our body grows bigger, the size of the coat is bigger. Shirt is bigger
- When the body dies, the body is finished, but what about the soul?
- When the Paramatma and the jivatma are within the same material living body, so the...?
- When the scientists say "species," they mean different types of bodies?
- When the spirit soul leaves the body, the body continues to change, it deteriorates?
- When they perform these miracles, (indistinct) that is with their material body?
- When we serve Krsna, even though we don't have a material body...?
- When you said that all the cells in our body, each one is a living entity with a small body. Each one of those living entities covers itself with ignorance? So then myself, I organize all these smaller cells. I organize them into my big body?
- When you take Krsna prasadam, the living entities which are within our body, they're also taking prasadam?
- Whether or not it is possible for the soul to exist without having this external gross and subtle body covering it?
- While asleep the life symptoms are maintained in the body still?
- While it's living, is matter generated and annihilated within that body during the time of life?... Does it generate matter, so say the body could get heavier or lighter because of that?
- Who is in charge of giving us our next body?
- Why couldn't spirits grow without taking this body? Why couldn't spirits grow in the spiritual world without taking this material body.
- Why does that (identical twins born together) happen, if there are two brothers who are identically looking the same in features?
- Why does the soul come into the body in the first place?
- Why I am put into this body which will be destroyed, which will become old, useless? And where is my freedom?" These things do not bother them, and they are reader of Bhagavad-gita... Is it the sin of some of the...?
- Why is there a bodily difference?
- Why it is that when the body is dead that the fingernails continue to grow?
- Why should there be a conflict between the two (body and soul)?
- Within this universe are there other planets similar to the earthly planet where the inhabitants are getting the same, similar material bodies?
- Without the consciousness, what happens to the soul when the body dies?
- Working on the driver of the body. On the spirit, right (people are generally working on the body. And we are working on the driver of the body. That is the difference)?
- Would a spacesuit substitute for that (with this body you cannot go there (to the moon). You have to prepare a similar body which is suitable for living condition there)?
- Would it be possible for them (scientists) to make a body and have a living entity enter into it?
- Would one see gross form on a subtle planet?... Like the moon planet is heavenly planet. They're supposed to have subtle bodies there. So would there be any gross forms?
- Would that (greatest happiness be experienced) by all the senses - mind, intelligence...?
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- Yes, that means I am not the body, I am something beyond body. And what is that beyond body?
- Yesterday you said when one becomes initiated by a bona fide spiritual master, his body changes?
- You are finding some difficulty with sex desire and have asked guidance from me to instruct you how to handle this problem of the material body
- You say you do know, so why don't you produce it (soul) and put it back in the body and make it work?
- Your Divine Grace, you referred to the body as simply matter. Do you believe in a life after death for the body, the human body?