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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.6.17|SB 1.6.17, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Spiritual feelings of happiness and intense ecstasies have no mundane comparison. Therefore it is very difficult to give expression to such feelings. We can just have a glimpse of such ecstasy in the words of Śrī Nārada Muni. Each and every part of the body or senses has its particular function. After seeing the Lord, all the senses become fully awakened to render service unto the Lord because in the liberated state the senses are fully efficient in serving the Lord. As such, in that transcendental ecstasy it so happened that the senses became separately enlivened to serve the Lord. This being so, Nārada Muni lost himself in seeing both himself and the Lord simultaneously.</p>
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.6.17|SB 1.6.17, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Spiritual feelings of happiness and intense ecstasies have no mundane comparison. Therefore it is very difficult to give expression to such feelings. We can just have a glimpse of such ecstasy in the words of Śrī Nārada Muni. Each and every part of the body or senses has its particular function. After seeing the Lord, all the senses become fully awakened to render service unto the Lord because in the liberated state the senses are fully efficient in serving the Lord. As such, in that transcendental ecstasy it so happened that the senses became separately enlivened to serve the Lord. This being so, Nārada Muni lost himself in seeing both himself and the Lord simultaneously.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_3" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 3"><h3>SB Canto 3</h3>
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<div id="SB3526_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="169" link="SB 3.5.26" link_text="SB 3.5.26">
<div class="heading">Each and every part of His transcendental body can perform each and every function of the other parts.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.5.26|SB 3.5.26, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">We should not understand the process of impregnation by the Personality of Godhead in terms of our conception of sex. The omnipotent Lord can impregnate just by His eyes, and therefore He is called all-potent. Each and every part of His transcendental body can perform each and every function of the other parts. This is confirmed in the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.32): aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛttimanti. In Bhagavad-gītā (14.3) also, the same principle is confirmed: mama yonir mahad-brahma tasmin garbhaṁ dadhāmy aham. When the cosmic creation is manifested, the living entities are directly supplied from the Lord; they are never products of material nature.</p>
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<div id="SB3630_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="224" link="SB 3.6.30" link_text="SB 3.6.30">
<div class="heading">Each and every part of the body is important, although the mouth is the most important of the bodily parts.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.6.30|SB 3.6.30, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Everyone is situated in the body of the Supreme in His gigantic viśva-rūpa form. In terms of the four orders, therefore, no caste is to be considered degraded because of being situated on a particular part of the body. In our own bodies we do not show any actual difference in our treatment towards the hands or legs. Each and every part of the body is important, although the mouth is the most important of the bodily parts. If other parts are cut off from the body, a man can continue his life, but if the mouth is cut off, one cannot live.</p>
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<div id="SB31533_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="613" link="SB 3.15.33" link_text="SB 3.15.33">
<div class="heading">Each and every part of the body has individuality, even though occupying a small part of the total body.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.15.33|SB 3.15.33, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The example of the big sky and the small skies is also applicable within a person's body. The big sky is the body itself, and the intestines and other parts of the body occupy the small sky. Each and every part of the body has individuality, even though occupying a small part of the total body. Similarly, the whole creation is the body of the Supreme Lord, and we created beings, or anything that is created, are but a small part of that body. The parts of the body are never equal to the whole. This is never possible.</p>
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<div id="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" class="section" sec_index="3" parent="compilation" text="Other Books by Srila Prabhupada"><h2>Other Books by Srila Prabhupada</h2>
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<div id="Sri_Isopanisad" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Sri Isopanisad"><h3>Sri Isopanisad</h3>
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<div id="ISO8_0" class="quote" parent="Sri_Isopanisad" book="OB" index="10" link="ISO 8" link_text="Sri Isopanisad 8">
<div class="heading">With each and every part of His body He can do the work of the other senses.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:ISO 8|Sri Isopanisad 8, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Vedic literature clearly states that the Lord's transcendental body is completely different from ours; thus He is sometimes described as formless. This means that He has no form like ours and that He is devoid of a form we can conceive of. In the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.32) it is further stated that with each and every part of His body He can do the work of the other senses. This means that the Lord can walk with His hands, accept things with His legs, see with His hands and feet, eat with His eyes, etc.</p>
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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
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<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Lectures" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures"><h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonBG92627NewYorkDecember161966_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="323" link="Lecture on BG 9.26-27 -- New York, December 16, 1966" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.26-27 -- New York, December 16, 1966">
<div class="heading">Ganges is a very long river, and all the tracts of land, they are considered to be sacred place, and in each and every part, thousands and thousands of people, they are taking their bath early in the morning.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.26-27 -- New York, December 16, 1966|Lecture on BG 9.26-27 -- New York, December 16, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The Ganges river is the sacred river, Ganges and the Yamunā. The most two sacred rivers in India. Millions of people take bath early in the morning in the two rivers, all parts of the country. It is very wide and very long river, from Himalaya to the Bay of Bengal. So it is very long river, and all the tracts of land, they are considered to be sacred place, and in each and every part, thousands and thousands of people, they are taking their bath early in the morning.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG1313DurbanOctober131975_1" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="343" link="Lecture on BG 13.1-3 -- Durban, October 13, 1975" link_text="Lecture on BG 13.1-3 -- Durban, October 13, 1975">
<div class="heading">Whether I am this body or I am different from my body?  You study each and every part of your body.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 13.1-3 -- Durban, October 13, 1975|Lecture on BG 13.1-3 -- Durban, October 13, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So this is clear conception of kṣetra and kṣetra-jña. The body is called kṣetra, and the knower of the body... If we simply study our body, if we simply take this question, little seriously, "Whether I am this body or I am different from my body?" You study each and every part of your body. You study your finger. You will know or I will know "It is my finger." I do not say it is, "I finger." It is "my finger." Therefore I am different from my body. Just like I say, "This is my shoe." So I am not the shoe. So similarly, you study every part of your body. You know that it is your body. You are not this body.</p>
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Lectures" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures"><h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonSB1840LosAngelesMay21973_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="240" link="Lecture on SB 1.8.40 -- Los Angeles, May 2, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.8.40 -- Los Angeles, May 2, 1973">
<div class="heading">Each and every part, limb of Kṛṣṇa, has got the capacity of other parts.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.8.40 -- Los Angeles, May 2, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.8.40 -- Los Angeles, May 2, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Simply by Kṛṣṇa's glancing, seeing, the matter becomes agitated and becomes pregnant, and the living entities come out. The trees, the fruits and everything comes out. Simply by His glancing. How it is possible? We have no experience that "Simply by glancing over my wife, I can make her pregnant." No. That is for you, not for Kṛṣṇa. Not for Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is described in the Brahma-saṁhitā, aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛttimanti. Each and every part, limb of Kṛṣṇa, has got the capacity of other parts. We, by our eyes part of our body, we can simply see. But Kṛṣṇa, by seeing, can make others pregnant. That is Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB32820NairobiOctober301975_1" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="508" link="Lecture on SB 3.28.20 -- Nairobi, October 30, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.28.20 -- Nairobi, October 30, 1975">
<div class="heading">You have to see each and every part of the body, limb of Kṛṣṇa. That is meditation.
</div>
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.28.20 -- Nairobi, October 30, 1975|Lecture on SB 3.28.20 -- Nairobi, October 30, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I think my hand is moving, but Kṛṣṇa is so powerful that even He has got the so-called statue hand, a metal hand or a stone hand, He can capture food which you offer. That you have to understand. When Kṛṣṇa is described as "He has no hand," that means He has no that limited hand as we have got. He has got... He appears before us just like a stone idol or statue, but He has got all the capacity of the limbs of the body, sarvāvayava. He has kindly appeared before us so that we can see. Here it is recommended that saṁyujyād aṅge. You have to see each and every part of the body, limb of Kṛṣṇa. That is meditation.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="LectureonSB32820NairobiOctober301975_2" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="508" link="Lecture on SB 3.28.20 -- Nairobi, October 30, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.28.20 -- Nairobi, October 30, 1975">
<div class="heading">So each and every part you study and understand, "Kṛṣṇa is here. Kṛṣṇa is there." This is meditation.
</div>
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.28.20 -- Nairobi, October 30, 1975|Lecture on SB 3.28.20 -- Nairobi, October 30, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This arca-vigraha... By offering worship to the Deity, you see the lotus feet is there, the ankle is there, the mark in the sole is there. Everything is there. So each and every part you study and understand, "Kṛṣṇa is here. Kṛṣṇa is there." This is meditation. It is not that the rascal's theory that God is everywhere except in the temple.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="LectureonSB7919HamburgSeptember71969withGermanTranslator_3" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="826" link="Lecture on SB 7.9.19 -- Hamburg, September 7, 1969, (with German Translator)" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.9.19 -- Hamburg, September 7, 1969, (with German Translator)">
<div class="heading">If you study each and every part of your body, you will understand that "It is mine."
</div>
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.19 -- Hamburg, September 7, 1969, (with German Translator)|Lecture on SB 7.9.19 -- Hamburg, September 7, 1969, (with German Translator)]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Just like if you study each and every part of your body, you will understand that "It is mine." You will claim this finger as your finger, but you'll not claim other's finger as your finger. But God can claim your finger and my finger as His finger. Kṣetra-jñāṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi sarva-kṣetreṣu bhārata. It is said, "My dear Arjuna, as individual soul is the proprietor of that individual body, I am also proprietor not of that individual body but all bodies." Everything.</p>
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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Lectures" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures"><h3>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures</h3>
</div>
<div id="LectureonCCMadhyalila20104NewYorkJuly101976_0" class="quote" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" book="Lec" index="58" link="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.104 -- New York, July 10, 1976" link_text="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.104 -- New York, July 10, 1976">
<div class="heading">They are claiming that life is chemical composition, but try each and every part of this body and chemical composition.
</div>
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.104 -- New York, July 10, 1976|Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.104 -- New York, July 10, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So we are not this kapha pitta vāyu. We are not this skin, bone, blood or whatever it may be. You analyze it. I am not this. But life is not there. They are claiming that life is chemical composition, but try each and every part of this body and chemical composition. First of all take this breathing. What is this breathing? Breathing is air. So air, that is also chemical composition: hydrogen, oxygen, ether. (?) So that is chemical composition, or air. So there is no question of chemical combining.</p>
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<div id="Sri_Brahma-samhita_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Lectures" text="Sri Brahma-samhita Lectures"><h3>Sri Brahma-samhita Lectures</h3>
</div>
<div id="LectureonBrahmasamhitaVerse32NewYorkJuly261971_0" class="quote" parent="Sri_Brahma-samhita_Lectures" book="Lec" index="2" link="Lecture on Brahma-samhita, Verse 32 -- New York, July 26, 1971" link_text="Lecture on Brahma-samhita, Verse 32 -- New York, July 26, 1971">
<div class="heading">Each and every part of the body has got the capacity for other parts of the body.
</div>
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on Brahma-samhita, Verse 32 -- New York, July 26, 1971|Lecture on Brahma-samhita, Verse 32 -- New York, July 26, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The distinction between this material body and spiritual body is that just like this hand is made for particular purpose—you can pick up something, you can touch something, but you cannot taste something. If you want to taste something, then the hand will bring that food to your mouth and will touch your tongue. Then you can know that it is bitter or sweet. But simply by touching the hand it is not possible to understand what is the nature of that particular... Therefore God's body is described here that aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛtti-manti. Each and every part of the body has got the capacity for other parts of the body.</p>
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Srimad-Bhagavatam

SB Canto 1

Each and every part of the body or senses has its particular function.
SB 1.6.17, Purport:

Spiritual feelings of happiness and intense ecstasies have no mundane comparison. Therefore it is very difficult to give expression to such feelings. We can just have a glimpse of such ecstasy in the words of Śrī Nārada Muni. Each and every part of the body or senses has its particular function. After seeing the Lord, all the senses become fully awakened to render service unto the Lord because in the liberated state the senses are fully efficient in serving the Lord. As such, in that transcendental ecstasy it so happened that the senses became separately enlivened to serve the Lord. This being so, Nārada Muni lost himself in seeing both himself and the Lord simultaneously.

SB Canto 3

Each and every part of His transcendental body can perform each and every function of the other parts.
SB 3.5.26, Purport:

We should not understand the process of impregnation by the Personality of Godhead in terms of our conception of sex. The omnipotent Lord can impregnate just by His eyes, and therefore He is called all-potent. Each and every part of His transcendental body can perform each and every function of the other parts. This is confirmed in the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.32): aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛttimanti. In Bhagavad-gītā (14.3) also, the same principle is confirmed: mama yonir mahad-brahma tasmin garbhaṁ dadhāmy aham. When the cosmic creation is manifested, the living entities are directly supplied from the Lord; they are never products of material nature.

Each and every part of the body is important, although the mouth is the most important of the bodily parts.
SB 3.6.30, Purport:

Everyone is situated in the body of the Supreme in His gigantic viśva-rūpa form. In terms of the four orders, therefore, no caste is to be considered degraded because of being situated on a particular part of the body. In our own bodies we do not show any actual difference in our treatment towards the hands or legs. Each and every part of the body is important, although the mouth is the most important of the bodily parts. If other parts are cut off from the body, a man can continue his life, but if the mouth is cut off, one cannot live.

Each and every part of the body has individuality, even though occupying a small part of the total body.
SB 3.15.33, Purport:

The example of the big sky and the small skies is also applicable within a person's body. The big sky is the body itself, and the intestines and other parts of the body occupy the small sky. Each and every part of the body has individuality, even though occupying a small part of the total body. Similarly, the whole creation is the body of the Supreme Lord, and we created beings, or anything that is created, are but a small part of that body. The parts of the body are never equal to the whole. This is never possible.

Other Books by Srila Prabhupada

Sri Isopanisad

With each and every part of His body He can do the work of the other senses.
Sri Isopanisad 8, Purport:

The Vedic literature clearly states that the Lord's transcendental body is completely different from ours; thus He is sometimes described as formless. This means that He has no form like ours and that He is devoid of a form we can conceive of. In the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.32) it is further stated that with each and every part of His body He can do the work of the other senses. This means that the Lord can walk with His hands, accept things with His legs, see with His hands and feet, eat with His eyes, etc.

Lectures

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Ganges is a very long river, and all the tracts of land, they are considered to be sacred place, and in each and every part, thousands and thousands of people, they are taking their bath early in the morning.
Lecture on BG 9.26-27 -- New York, December 16, 1966:

The Ganges river is the sacred river, Ganges and the Yamunā. The most two sacred rivers in India. Millions of people take bath early in the morning in the two rivers, all parts of the country. It is very wide and very long river, from Himalaya to the Bay of Bengal. So it is very long river, and all the tracts of land, they are considered to be sacred place, and in each and every part, thousands and thousands of people, they are taking their bath early in the morning.

Whether I am this body or I am different from my body? You study each and every part of your body.
Lecture on BG 13.1-3 -- Durban, October 13, 1975:

So this is clear conception of kṣetra and kṣetra-jña. The body is called kṣetra, and the knower of the body... If we simply study our body, if we simply take this question, little seriously, "Whether I am this body or I am different from my body?" You study each and every part of your body. You study your finger. You will know or I will know "It is my finger." I do not say it is, "I finger." It is "my finger." Therefore I am different from my body. Just like I say, "This is my shoe." So I am not the shoe. So similarly, you study every part of your body. You know that it is your body. You are not this body.

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Each and every part, limb of Kṛṣṇa, has got the capacity of other parts.
Lecture on SB 1.8.40 -- Los Angeles, May 2, 1973:

Simply by Kṛṣṇa's glancing, seeing, the matter becomes agitated and becomes pregnant, and the living entities come out. The trees, the fruits and everything comes out. Simply by His glancing. How it is possible? We have no experience that "Simply by glancing over my wife, I can make her pregnant." No. That is for you, not for Kṛṣṇa. Not for Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is described in the Brahma-saṁhitā, aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛttimanti. Each and every part, limb of Kṛṣṇa, has got the capacity of other parts. We, by our eyes part of our body, we can simply see. But Kṛṣṇa, by seeing, can make others pregnant. That is Kṛṣṇa.

You have to see each and every part of the body, limb of Kṛṣṇa. That is meditation.
Lecture on SB 3.28.20 -- Nairobi, October 30, 1975:

I think my hand is moving, but Kṛṣṇa is so powerful that even He has got the so-called statue hand, a metal hand or a stone hand, He can capture food which you offer. That you have to understand. When Kṛṣṇa is described as "He has no hand," that means He has no that limited hand as we have got. He has got... He appears before us just like a stone idol or statue, but He has got all the capacity of the limbs of the body, sarvāvayava. He has kindly appeared before us so that we can see. Here it is recommended that saṁyujyād aṅge. You have to see each and every part of the body, limb of Kṛṣṇa. That is meditation.

So each and every part you study and understand, "Kṛṣṇa is here. Kṛṣṇa is there." This is meditation.
Lecture on SB 3.28.20 -- Nairobi, October 30, 1975:

This arca-vigraha... By offering worship to the Deity, you see the lotus feet is there, the ankle is there, the mark in the sole is there. Everything is there. So each and every part you study and understand, "Kṛṣṇa is here. Kṛṣṇa is there." This is meditation. It is not that the rascal's theory that God is everywhere except in the temple.

If you study each and every part of your body, you will understand that "It is mine."
Lecture on SB 7.9.19 -- Hamburg, September 7, 1969, (with German Translator):

Just like if you study each and every part of your body, you will understand that "It is mine." You will claim this finger as your finger, but you'll not claim other's finger as your finger. But God can claim your finger and my finger as His finger. Kṣetra-jñāṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi sarva-kṣetreṣu bhārata. It is said, "My dear Arjuna, as individual soul is the proprietor of that individual body, I am also proprietor not of that individual body but all bodies." Everything.

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures

They are claiming that life is chemical composition, but try each and every part of this body and chemical composition.
Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.104 -- New York, July 10, 1976:

So we are not this kapha pitta vāyu. We are not this skin, bone, blood or whatever it may be. You analyze it. I am not this. But life is not there. They are claiming that life is chemical composition, but try each and every part of this body and chemical composition. First of all take this breathing. What is this breathing? Breathing is air. So air, that is also chemical composition: hydrogen, oxygen, ether. (?) So that is chemical composition, or air. So there is no question of chemical combining.

Sri Brahma-samhita Lectures

Each and every part of the body has got the capacity for other parts of the body.
Lecture on Brahma-samhita, Verse 32 -- New York, July 26, 1971:

The distinction between this material body and spiritual body is that just like this hand is made for particular purpose—you can pick up something, you can touch something, but you cannot taste something. If you want to taste something, then the hand will bring that food to your mouth and will touch your tongue. Then you can know that it is bitter or sweet. But simply by touching the hand it is not possible to understand what is the nature of that particular... Therefore God's body is described here that aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛtti-manti. Each and every part of the body has got the capacity for other parts of the body.