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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1973]]
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<div id="RoomConversationwithGrahamHillFormerWorldChampionRaceCarDriverLondonAugust261973_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="65" link="Room Conversation with Graham Hill Former World Champion Race Car Driver -- London, August 26, 1973" link_text="Room Conversation with Graham Hill Former World Champion Race Car Driver -- London, August 26, 1973">
<div class="heading">Yes, yes. Spiritually you are all the same. Just like as human beings you are all the same but you may have a black dress, I may have a saffron dress, he may have white dress. This is outward covering. This is not myself. Similarly, dehino 'smin yathā dehe kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā (BG 2.13). Within this body the spirit soul is there and he is changing different types of bodies.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Graham Hill Former World Champion Race Car Driver -- London, August 26, 1973|Room Conversation with Graham Hill Former World Champion Race Car Driver -- London, August 26, 1973]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Graham Hill:  How do we attain our spiritual body?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You have got already spiritual body.</p>
<p>Graham Hill:  I mean, how did I get my spiritual body?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Because you are part and parcel of God.  God is all spirit.  Just like materially, because you have got white body your son has got white body.  Similarly, God is all spirit.  Therefore you are son of God, part and parcel of God, then you are all spirit.  But you have got this material covering because you wanted to come here and enjoy or lord it over the material nature.  Everyone is trying to that.  Everyone is trying to become a very prominent man in this material world.  That is he can lord it over the material nature.  So because you desire to lord it over the material nature you have to accept a material body.</p>
<p>Graham Hill:  Are all spiritual bodies the same?  I mean, is your spiritual body exactly the same as...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, yes.  Spiritually you are all the same.  Just like as human beings you are all the same but you may have a black dress, I may have a saffron dress, he may have white dress.  This is outward covering.  This is not myself.  Similarly, dehino 'smin yathā dehe kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13|BG 2.13]]).  Within this body the spirit soul is there and he is changing different types of bodies.  So when he accepts a process, this going back to home, back to Godhead, to Kṛṣṇa, then he hasn't got to accept any more material body.  He remains in his own spiritual body.  And spiritual body by original constitution it is eternal.  Eternal.  Nityaṁ śāśvato 'yam, na hanyate hanyamāne ([[Vanisource:BG 2.20|BG 2.20]]).  na jāyate mriyate vā kadācin.  This is a description of it.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara:  In the spiritual bodies aren't there also individualities?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.  Yes.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara:  My spiritual body won't be the same as...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, just like father and son.  Son is also individual.  Father is also individual.  Although the son is born of the body of the father, of the mother.  But he is individual.  He is individual.  He can disobey father or he can obey the father.  So long he obeys he is happy.  When he disobeys he is unhappy.  (to child)  Is that all right?  Eh?  You want to be happy or unhappy?  Obey your father, that's all.  (laughter)  Very simple philosophy.  Yes.</p>
<p>Graham Hill: (indistinct) at home he is very active.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, ...that's nice. Yes.  So he sometimes becomes disobedient?  Sometimes?  Eh?  Why?  (laughs)  That means you have got independence.  Is it not?  Yes.  That means he has got independence.  Yes.  This is a fact.  Similarly we are sons of God, we have got little independence.  We may remain with God, we may give up His company and come here to find our own fortune.  And to find our own fortune we are becoming implicated and taking birth in different species of life.  That is our ignorance.  You are obedient to your mother?</p>
<p>Girl:  Sometimes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Sometimes, not always.</p>
<p>Girl:  Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: She is the youngest?  Ah, therefore she must be disobedient.  (laughter)  Daughter is eldest?  This daughter?  Oh.  You are obedient?</p>
<p>Girl:  Sometimes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Sometimes?  Not always?  (laughs)  All right.  Thank you.</p>
<p>Graham Hill:  She's a bit wild when she is at home.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa.  So give them prasadam.  Oh, (indistinct) that's nice.  So I am very glad to see you with your all family.  Ah.  Please come here.  We have got very... (end)</p>
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