Try to understand that within this body there is the soul. The body is called in Sanskrit language, it is called deha. And the soul, which possesses this body, just like I am possessing this body, you are possessing your body. We are all individual persons, soul. You have got your body, I have got my body, another has got his body. In this way we have got different bodies. So we must understand this is the platform of cultural unity, when you understand that "I am not this body." We are unity: economic unity, historical unity, scientific unity—but still we are fighting one another: nation to nation, person to person, individual to individual. There is no unity. The only cause is that they do not know that we are not this body.
But we are spreading the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement for understanding this simple philosophy, that we are not this body. We have to rectify or purify this knowledge that I am this body. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. It is very simple. Just like in our society, the International Society for Kṛṣṇa Consciousness, we are many persons from many countries. Some of them are from India, some of them from America, some of them from Africa, some of them from other countries—Japan—we have various countrymen combined together. But you will find that every one of us not conscious of this body. Otherwise we could not work so united. We are conscious that "I am not this body." This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Otherwise how it would accommodate Indians, Africans, Americans? They are chanting, they are dancing, they are eating. They have forgotten; they have forgotten that one is black, one is white, one is yellow, one is red or one is this or that. The bodily concept they have forgotten. This is practical. You can see.
So this is possible. If it is possible for a small number of crew—this society or the sect or anything—it is possible to spread all over the world. So that cultural unity we are seeing, that we are one spirit soul, ahaṁ brahmāsmi, the Vedic language is called, when we understand that "I am not this body; I am spirit soul."Ahaṁ brahmāsmi. This is called purification.