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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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So we have to accept this. Vāsāṁsi jīrṇāni. You don't be misled by the proposition of the so-called blind leaders that you are this body. The leaders are misguiding us by identification with this body. There is fight always, "I am American," "I am Indian," "I am Russian," "I am Pakistani," "I am Hindustani." And there is fight. Advancement of civilization means advancement of fighting. That's all. When there was no Pakistan, there was some sporadic Hindu-Muslim fight. Now there is nation, Pakistan, and nation, Hindustan, and there is organized fight every year. This is advancement?.
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[[Vanisource:721126 - Lecture BG 02.22 - Hyderabad|721126 - Lecture BG 02.22 - Hyderabad]]
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If you are in scarcity of rain, perform yajña, the saṅkīrtana-yajña. There will be regular rain. And if there is regular rain, there is ample food production. There is no question of overpopulation. God can supply you more than you want, provided you become God conscious, Kṛṣṇa conscious. That is the way.

So we have to accept this. Vāsāṁsi jīrṇāni. You don't be misled by the proposition of the so-called blind leaders that you are this body. The leaders are misguiding us by identification with this body. There is fight always, "I am American," "I am Indian," "I am Russian," "I am Pakistani," "I am Hindustani."

And there is fight. Advancement of civilization means advancement of fighting. That's all. When there was no Pakistan, there was some sporadic Hindu-Muslim fight. Now there is nation, Pakistan, and nation, Hindustan, and there is organized fight every year. This is advancement?

So don't follow this foolish advancement. Take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and be happy. This is not an ordinary movement. People are suffering actually for want of spiritual life, spiritual understanding. So the basic principle of spiritual understanding is to know one's self. Ahaṁ brahmāsmi.

Ahaṁ brahmāsmi. That, to come to that point, Kṛṣṇa is explaining that this body is like the dress, and the person who is dressed, that is within the dress. Dehino 'smin yathā dehe ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13 (1972)|BG 2.13]]). Here also it is said, tathā śarīrāṇi vihāya jīrṇāny anyāni saṁyāti navāni dehī. Very simple thing. There is no difficulty.

But the so-called scientists, philosophers, educationists, they will not believe that there is soul. They . . . they'll not believe. They'll simply argue. They cannot establish the real fact, how this body is moving. There are so many theories. But except . . . accept, they will not accept that the . . . actually, because the soul is within this body, everything is happening. And without the soul, immediately this body, so nice body of such-and-such great personality, becomes a lump of matter.

Not that the body is working . . . they are finding out the brain substance, how it is working. But the brain substance is already there in the dead body. Why don't you work with that? No. That is not fact. The fact is the brain substance is a machine, but the man, or the person, is within the body. He's working with the brain substance.
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