Death means... (Conversations)
Conversations and Morning Walks
1971 Conversations and Morning Walks
1973 Conversations and Morning Walks
1974 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: Subtle body... Just like your body at night is on the bed, but you are carried by the thinking, feeling, intelligence to somewhere else. Is it not? So how are you are carried? You are actually lying on the bed. (aside:) Hare Kṛṣṇa. It is carried by the subtle body. Similarly, 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.
Dr. Patel: That is in, I mean, svapna.
Prabhupāda: Svapna, yes.
Dr. Patel: But that does not work in deep sleep.
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Dr. Patel: In deep sleep it does not work, no?
Prabhupāda: This sleep means temporary. Again the subtle mind, intelligence, come back. So death means no more coming back. It goes elsewhere. That is death. Is it clear?1975 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: So I have changed so many machines. So death means another machine. Where is the difficulty?
Ambarīṣa: When the spirit soul leaves the body, the body continues to change, it deteriorates?
Prabhupāda: No, no. Spirit soul is changing machine. That is explained in the Bhagavad-gītā. So when this machine is finished, and another machine.1976 Conversations and Morning Walks
1977 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: Mind is also material. Up to ether. Beyond that, ether, there is soul.
Rāmeśvara: That was a description of one person who had this experience of being outside their body.
Prabhupāda: No, no... Death means all previous experience forgotten. That is death. Otherwise there is no death.
Hari-śauri: Yes. The key here is that all these people actually came back into their bodies. They actually didn't...
Rāmeśvara: They didn't fully die.
Hari-śauri: It was just before...
Prabhupāda: They... It cannot die. There is no question of death. Simply changing the body.
Hari-śauri: But they didn't actually get to the point of transferral to another body.
Rāmeśvara: No. What's being described in this journal is that a man leaves his gross body, and then he exists in a very subtle state.
Prabhupāda: Yes. That is subtle body.
Rāmeśvara: And then he goes back to the same gross body.
Prabhupāda: Not exactly the same, but another. This body is useless. By accident he loses. Mutilated, it cannot be accepted.
Rāmeśvara: But somehow they revive him. Somehow he is revived.
Prabhupāda: Revived means the body was in order.
Rāmeśvara: Temporarily he left.
Prabhupāda: Otherwise, if the body is too much mutilated, it is impossible.
Rāmeśvara: Yes. This is just those rare cases where it is just like almost mutilated completely, but still, it is revived.
Prabhupāda: Yes. There are many cases. The asuras who had died, Sukrācārya used to bring them again in life, whose body was not mutilated.
Rāmeśvara: This article will have a great effect on people. They will be convinced that after death of this body there is still life.
Prabhupāda: Yes. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā. Na hanyate hanyamāne... [Bg. 2.20]. Because the body is destroyed, that does not mean the soul is destroyed.Page Title: | Death means... (Conversations) |
Compiler: | Labangalatika, Namrata |
Created: | 17 of Feb, 2009 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=18, Let=0 |
No. of Quotes: | 18 |