Dress of a sannyasi (Lectures)

Expressions researched:
"dress is not sannyasa" |"dress like a sannyasi" |"dress of a sannyasi" |"dress of sannyasi" |"dress, this is called sannyasa" |"not by dress" |"person is always a sannyasi" |"sannyasa dress" |"sannyasi does not become simply by changing dress" |"sannyasi dress" |"sannyasi has to dress" |"sannyasi, his dress" |"when I was not sannyasi, I was dressing"

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Just like when I was not sannyāsī, I was dressing like any gentleman. Now I have changed my dress. That does not mean that I have died. No. I have changed my body, that's all. I have changed my dress.

Lecture on BG 2.1-10 and Talk -- Los Angeles, November 25, 1968:

Spirit soul is evergreen. The body is changing. That is to be understood. Body is changing. That everyone can understand. Just like in your childhood your body was different. Just like this child, a different body. And when that child will be young girl, that will be a different body. But the spirit soul is there in this body and that body. So this is the proof that spirit soul does not change, the body changed. This is the proof. I am thinking of my childhood. That means I am the same "I" which I was existing in my childhood, and I remember in my childhood I was doing this, I did that. But that childhood body is no longer. That is gone. Therefore it is conclusion that my body has changed, but I am the same. Is it not? This is simple truth. So this body will change, still I shall remain. I may enter into another body, that doesn't matter, but I shall remain. Tathā dehāntara-prāptir dhīras tatra na muhyati (BG 2.13). As I am changing my body even in the present circumstances, similarly, the ultimate change does not mean I am dead. I enter into another... That also explained, vāsāṁsi jīrṇāni yathā (BG 2.22), that I change. Just like when I was not sannyāsī, I was dressing like any gentleman. Now I have changed my dress. That does not mean that I have died. No. I have changed my body, that's all. I have changed my dress.